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

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 Reed, Talbot Baines

She’s leaving us, Mr Hardy—keep more away, and run abreast of her.

From The King's Own by Marryat, Frederick

The walking here is excellent; a dozen persons might run abreast for a quarter of a mile to Bunyan's Way, a branch of the avenue, leading on to the river.

From Rambles in the Mammoth Cave, during the Year 1844 By a Visiter by Bullitt, Alexander Clark