run abreast
Example Sentences
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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
She’s leaving us, Mr Hardy—keep more away, and run abreast of her.
From The King's Own by Marryat, Frederick
On a level with the spot on which I was standing stretched a series of embankments, each one about 70 feet high, and of breadth sufficient for four railway trucks to run abreast on them.
From The Travels of Marco Polo — Volume 2 by Yule, Henry
English prose, which a century earlier had limped so far behind French in clearness and conciseness, was rapidly catching its rival up, and in the next generation was to run abreast with it.
From Three French Moralists and The Gallantry of France by Gosse, Edmund
