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Example sentences for "rode along"

  • On the 8th, as I rode along, I found the column turned out of the main road, marching through the fields.

  • The fellow dropped behind again, and we resumed our desultory conversation, chatting as we rode along on the merits of the different leaders, and how they had behaved.

  • This is an unblest country, Meer Sahib," said he, as we rode along.

  • Sponsilier had concealed his in his boot, and as we rode along, contended that he could feel the roll chafing his ankle.

  • Until we got within five miles of our camp that morning, old Bibleback wouldn't speak to me as we rode along.

  • All three of us talked the matter of quarantine freely as we rode along, yet no one ventured any proposition looking to an agreement as to who should go on the diplomatic mission.

  • It was with difficulty that riders could be kept on the right hand side of the herd, for along it grew endless quantities of a species of upland huckleberry, and, breaking off branches, we feasted as we rode along.

  • And though with a stout heart he resolved to say nothing, either of what he knew or suspected, it must be confessed he shook a little as he rode along.

  • As we rode along we heard a number of voices, and saw men with torches moving rapidly along the side of the stream.

  • As we rode along, Stanley gave me fuller details of the attack which had been made on our village, and which had resulted in the party being compelled to quit it and seek safety at Kabomba.

  • As we rode along my companion gave me many valuable hints with regard to the journey I was about to undertake.

  • I thought as I rode along that I would just take a look at our inhospitable friends, and see what they were about.

  • As we rode along we looked for the dog's master, but did not catch sight of him.

  • I rode along a hollow under the hill, in order to get as near them as I could, in which I perfectly succeeded as the wind was favourable.

  • If I thought the gold was going to change you, and turn you into a money-grub and a screw, I'd slit every bag open, and let the beastly stuff roll out in the scrub as we rode along.

  • Leaving Geordie lying for dead, Alec turned his back upon Wandaroo, and surrounded by the gang of bushrangers, with whom he knew it was useless for him to attempt to cope, he rode along he knew not whither.

  • By Jove, Glanton, but you were right when you advised me to have nothing to do with that rascally witch doctor," said the Major, as we rode along.

  • I liked Kendrew, I decided as I rode along.

  • Not half a bad chap that, after all," said Falkner, as we rode along together.

  • As I rode along I tried to convince myself that I could slip into the ranch, secure my own saddle horse, and meet no one except the Mexicans.

  • As we rode along, returning to the grove, Esther requested that our betrothal be kept a profound secret.

  • As we rode along it would go out of sight behind a hill, only to reappear again farther south, always keeping just so far ahead of us.

  • At the station they told me the next train would not be along for an hour and it would come from the direction in which I was going, so I rode along unconcerned, for I could see ahead for miles.

  • As we traveled south, the range of foot-hills turned to the east until we rode along nearly at the base of them.

  • The officer who conducted or guarded me was a very quiet, civil personage, and as we rode along, he told me that he was ordered to require my parole not to attempt an escape, and then to give me every sort of liberty.

  • Nothing disturbed me on my journey, no sign of marauders was visible as I rode along, not a creature did I meet but a forester with his axe upon his shoulder, and a thin priest riding quickly along on his ambling palfrey.

  • We saw several men at work in the fields, as we rode along, all with rifles slung across their backs, and the infrequent settlers protested they meant to quit the country, as soon as their harvests matured.

  • The fields looked as green, and the skies as bright and cloudless, as when he rode along in the morning; but, oh, how different were his feelings!

  • It was a beautiful and sunny morning in the spring; and as he rode along by the green fields, and heard the singing of the birds as they flew from tree to tree, he felt as light-hearted and as happy as they.

  • Mulai Omar was well known in Sok-el-Tleta, his wife's relatives living there: because he was a saint his clothes and slippers were kissed by every one who met us as we rode along to our camp beyond the Tuesday Market.

  • We left upon our right as we rode along, some hundreds of yards from the sea, the remains of what years upon years ago was a fort, built somewhat as forts will be built in the near future--with a view to concealment.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "rode along" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.


    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    abstract conceptions; being held; direct experiment; entering upon; fair trial; good stock; great abilities; great experience; hackney coaches; less pubescent; moral insanity; real lady; rode away; rode back; rode down; rode forth; rode forward; rode over; rode through; rode till; rode upon; something seemed; strong tower; umbelliferous plant; weather station; whole people