run abreast
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The start is a spacious straightaway where the wide, charging line of horses can run abreast for about 500 yards.
From Time Magazine Archive
The road was wide enough for two wagons to run abreast, but I moved to the grass at the edge of the road anyway.
From "The Name of the Wind" by Patrick Rothfuss
It was wide enough for two voles to run abreast in.
From "Wee Tim'rous Beasties" Studies of Animal life and Character by Douglas English
She’s leaving us, Mr Hardy—keep more away, and run abreast of her.
From The King's Own by Frederick Marryat
Of course, they can’t all, 24 of them, run abreast, and so they are being started in heats, six at a time.
From Parkhurst Boys And Other Stories of School Life by Talbot Baines Reed
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