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Example sentences for "abreast"

Lexicographically close words:
abrading; abrasion; abrasions; abrasive; abrasives; abregee; abri; abridge; abridged; abridgement
  1. The door was on the first floor, and was approached by a narrow flight of stone steps, up which but two abreast could advance.

  2. It was only accessible from Poitiers by a sunken road flanked by banks and fences, and but wide enough to admit of four horsemen riding abreast along it.

  3. I cannot believe that this city is unknown," said Jack to Philip, as they marched on abreast behind Pepe and his guards.

  4. If these saw our soldiers coming two abreast along the narrow path they would give the alarm, and the defenders of the city could kill our advance guard and block up the road.

  5. Only two men can walk abreast on the path?

  6. The carriage was abreast the Chinaman now, and immediately he took up his trot, for a little while keeping up, dodging along between light and shadow, presently falling behind.

  7. When we were abreast of the island of Saint Domingo, our large convoy was reduced to about forty, all of which were consigned to the different ports of Jamaica.

  8. It kept its selling methods as well as its stock, not only abreast of the times, but a little ahead of them.

  9. The people of Princeton have always kept abreast of the times.

  10. And then the troop halted, abreast with them, and the sergeant leading it sent his bawling voice across the common.

  11. Plougastel, and with fearful eyes both looked into this open carriage that was drawing abreast of them.

  12. There was a light breeze from the south, and the boat ran rapidly along before it till it was again abreast of the village, then she was put about and made short tacks in the dead-water.

  13. In three hours they could make out its outline, for the land was bold and high, and it took them another four hours before they were abreast of its eastern point, Cape Navalok.

  14. Godfrey lifted his head for a moment and saw five or six of the natives on the bank abreast of him, standing in readiness to shoot.

  15. Accordingly, as the carriage drew abreast of her in climbing the long ascent, she walked close to the wheels, the rays of the nearest lamp penetrating her very pores.

  16. Nobody can live at Hintock--least of all a professional man who wants to keep abreast of recent discovery.

  17. In a dozen seconds she was abreast of the bus.

  18. They arrived abreast at the tree, flushed and out of breath.

  19. The canoe was overturned in the rapids just as they came abreast of the ambush, and the captives swam ashore and escaped, while the pirates clung to the sides of Howard's boat.

  20. In a few minutes they were almost abreast of the green hill.

  21. Three days more and they would swing into the Boulevard; four or five days after that and they would be abreast the Edwards lot.

  22. How soon will you get abreast the--abreast the Seabury lot?

  23. That's her hauled up on the beach abreast the shanty.

  24. The only thing for Mather to do was to keep abreast of the mischief which he had created.

  25. Two men could scarce climb abreast in it; and even this was defended by fortifications, and at the summit, against the sky, tents could be seen.

  26. The colony was then abreast of Virginia in political privileges, and had a population of about ten thousand, in spite of its vicissitudes.

  27. He was not only in advance of his time: he was abreast of any times; nothing has ever been added to or detracted from his argument.

  28. He took the "Louisville Journal," because he must be abreast of the politics of the day, and made careful notes from every book he read.

  29. Very soon the Tecumseh, the monitor abreast of the Brooklyn, went down with nearly every soul on board, sunk by a torpedo.

  30. It has little merit as literature, but is abreast of critical research at all points.

  31. Ibsen, one of a notable company of masters, stood at the head of the drama of the nineteenth century; and the society which sustained him, however he may have satirised it, is certificated abreast of its age.

  32. And at this period, after so many vicissitudes, the culture life of Switzerland is found fully abreast of that of Europe in general.

  33. The nginas were abreast of us, and we were not more than half a mile from each.

  34. At last they seemed to be abreast of us, one on either side.

  35. Swinburne; "I reckon we are more than half-way in; we passed the point at least ten minutes ago, and this is the second battery we are now abreast of.

  36. We pulled in abreast towards the battery, and in less than ten minutes the boats were run on the beach, and we jumped out.

  37. As near as I could judge, we were not twenty yards from the rocks, at the time that the ship passed abreast of them.

  38. We were then beating down the Channel; for, although we ran through the Needles with a fair wind, it fell calm, and shifted to the westward, when we were abreast of Portland.

  39. We were becalmed abreast of Ceuta for two days.

  40. Just as she was abreast of it, and I playing about the weather quarter, the priests came by in procession, taking the host to somebody who was dying.

  41. Before we had towed abreast of the two water batteries, we had received three shots between wind and water, from the other batteries, and the sea was pouring fast into the vessel.

  42. We were now nearly abreast of the two batteries on the points, the guns of which had been trained so as to bear upon our boats that were towing out the brig.

  43. More serious reading also absorbed her, for she wanted to keep abreast of the most advanced thought of the day.

  44. They would act to bring women abreast of the issues of the day, Susan with her flare for organizing women, Mrs. Stanton with her pen and her eloquence.

  45. Instead she kept it abreast of the times, keenly alive to social, political, and economic issues, and involved in current public affairs.

  46. It was Liberal in politics, agnostic in religion and abreast of the times in science.

  47. He had not gone many paces when his attention was attracted towards a man who, just as he came abreast of where he was lying, turned over and grabbed at the air with his hand as though to catch some flying insect.

  48. Suddenly the figure loomed up in the darkness, and just as it came abreast of the bush, the officer bounded from his place of concealment.

  49. Mr. Ham, looking north and south, saw that the others were drawing up abreast of him, so that they would strike the whales at about the same time.

  50. They were abreast of the flukes; they swung in ahead of them.

  51. Christy, as soon as the Vampire was abreast of the spot he occupied.

  52. Mr. Dashington, you will call all hands, and be ready to board the prize in three divisions when we run abreast of her," said Captain Breaker.

  53. Right in the broadside, abreast of the forward smokestack, sir!

  54. I have seen a great waterfall five hundred feet high, whereunder four carriages might pass abreast without being wet.

  55. They ran along the palisades southward, Barbe keeping abreast of Colin though she made skimming dips as the swallow flies, and with a detour quite to the lake's verge, avoided the foundation of an outwork.

  56. Some of them were now almost abreast of the Resolution, and the iron shower tore through her sails and cut her rigging.

  57. I suppose they didn't want to lose ground by yawing, but as they came abreast of us they both opened fire.

  58. Then he came abreast of me, passed me, and I felt that my surmise had been wrong.

  59. She did not do so, however, but coming abreast of the turning in which the mysterious assault had taken place, she crossed the road and disappeared from view.

  60. After this he did not go ahead of Breault, but kept behind him or abreast of him, within sound of the dipping pole.

  61. He hurried on, finding harder ground under his feet, and came noiselessly abreast of the man on his raft of cedar timbers.


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    Other words:
    abreast; along; beside; contemporary; conversant; familiar; informed; contemporary; conversant; familiar; informed