ALONGSIDE in a Sentence

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For ALONGSIDE, below is one of 38 sentences:
He was a captain in the Civil War, and knew General Sherman, and they say he was a miner in Nevada right alongside of Mark Twain.

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 Meanings and Examples of ALONGSIDE
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
alongside
 ad.  along or by the side; side by side with
Classic Sentence: (27 in 2 pages)
1  "That's a fine bevy, Ma'm," said Gerald gallantly, reining his horse alongside the carriage.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER V
2  He was a captain in the Civil War, and knew General Sherman, and they say he was a miner in Nevada right alongside of Mark Twain.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIV
3  The stout sail-boat that had accompanied us began ranging alongside.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 22. Merry Christmas.
4  Some hands now jumped into a boat alongside, and pushed a little off from the ship.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 78. Cistern and Buckets.
5  Presently, the vapours in advance slid aside; and there in the distance lay a ship, whose furled sails betokened that some sort of whale must be alongside.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 91. The Pequod Meets The Rose-Bud.
6  So intolerable indeed is it regarded by some, that no cupidity could persuade them to moor alongside of it.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 91. The Pequod Meets The Rose-Bud.
7  Coming still nearer with the expiring breeze, we saw that the Frenchman had a second whale alongside; and this second whale seemed even more of a nosegay than the first.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 91. The Pequod Meets The Rose-Bud.
8  In less than a minute, without quitting his little craft, he and his crew were dropped to the water, and were soon alongside of the stranger.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 100. Leg and Arm.
9  With back to the stranger ship, and face set like a flint to his own, Ahab stood upright till alongside of the Pequod.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 100. Leg and Arm.
10  At all times except when whales were alongside, this bench was securely lashed athwartships against the rear of the Try-works.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 107. The Carpenter.
11  Sometimes women from the house would be given places alongside of decent girls, and after other decent girls had been turned off to make room for them.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 10
12  Teta Elzbieta would put the clothes-basket in which the baby slept alongside of his mattress, and Jurgis would lie upon one elbow and watch him by the hour, imagining things.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 11
13  Twice he even managed to capture a chicken, and had a feast, once in a deserted barn and the other time in a lonely spot alongside of a stream.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 22
14  We saw the boat go alongside, and we saw him taken up the side and disappear.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In Chapter V
15  At length we descried a light and a roof, and presently afterwards ran alongside a little causeway made of stones that had been picked up hard by.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In Chapter LIV
Example Sentence:
1  Children's prices are shown alongside adult prices.
2  She came alongside to give me a book.
3  Junior nurses usually work alongside more senior nurses.
4  He crossed the street and walked alongside Central Park.
5  Sometimes a project of this kind will involve working alongside an architect and interior designer.
6  When his lease went up for renewal in December, I summoned all my courage to sign my name alongside his on the new one.
7  Many of the sports facilities are already in place and the city can boast one of the most compact proposals running alongside the Moscow river.
8  Standing outside 10 Downing St. alongside his wife Sarah, Brown spoke in strained tones as he wished Cameron well.
9  Series will remain faithful to the old show, while introducing new recruits to fight alongside the original characters.
10  About the claim that plagued the palace, there was a categorical denial, alongside a string of reasons why her story did not add up.
11  Denuded of their social and political context, they serve, alongside Copacabana and the palm-fringed beaches of its northern coasts, as code for languid tropical hedonism, the brand identity of Brazil in the global tourist market.