shoulder to shoulder
Example Sentences
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A beat: he and Mal held their breath, pressed shoulder to shoulder at the edge of the boat.
From Literature
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When they had time to rest, they sat shoulder to shoulder.
From Literature
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They sat, the two of them, shoulder to shoulder in the sand.
From Literature
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He was loyal to the bone and would always stand shoulder to shoulder with me yet, on our own together, Dave would question decisions I made and always told me in his own blunt way whether he agreed or disagreed with my handling of different situations.
From BBC
In our family albums, relatives stand shoulder to shoulder with visitors from around the world, dressed with the ease and confidence of a country open to possibility.
From Salon
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.