all along

Example Sentences

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Since then, the two sides have exchanged multiple proposals, with the threat of renewed war looming all along.

From Barron's • May 22, 2026

The answer, more or less, is to continue what he’s been doing all along.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 19, 2026

With Martinez’s choice out of the running, the Democrat turned to the candidate who’d been his second pick all along, Xavier Becerra.

From Los Angeles Times • May 17, 2026

Dollar-cost ravaging, on the other hand, is taking from your portfolio all the time, probably at the worst possible moments all along.

From MarketWatch • Apr. 30, 2026

And in the oddest way Cletus became what we’d needed all along from the undertaker and preacher and visiting relatives.

From "Missing May" by Cynthia Rylant