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
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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
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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
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