How to Use alongside of in a Sentence

alongside of

preposition
  • Bolden started the last two alongside of him, and Hall got the start in the opener against UAB.
    David Furones, sun-sentinel.com, 6 Oct. 2020
  • Wilson hopped off his cable car and ran alongside of it, slapping high-fives with the crowd.
    Bill Van Niekerken, SFChronicle.com, 27 Oct. 2020
  • That alongside of Target, which gained 4.51%, were the day’s biggest earners.
    Bran Strickland | , al, 15 June 2023
  • Isom first pulled up behind his vehicle, and then alongside of him.
    Carol Robinson | Crobinson@al.com, al, 8 Feb. 2022
  • One car actually hit the side of our building and came into the building and the other car must have spun and just run alongside of the building ...
    Haleigh Kochanski, The Arizona Republic, 1 May 2022
  • The girl who has benefited most from training alongside of Wells is senior Evie McIver, who is in only her second year of cross country.
    Buddy Collings, orlandosentinel.com, 12 Nov. 2020
  • And alongside of that, our existing economic systems are not going to work anymore.
    Russell Flannery, Forbes, 24 Oct. 2021
  • Display tremendous grit in your perseverance toward supporting this football team and fight alongside of us.
    Stefan Krajisnik, The Indianapolis Star, 13 Nov. 2020
  • Today, the city’s leaders describe it as the heart of Asian American culture and activism, and a place where diaspora communities can thrive alongside of, and commingle with, American tradition.
    Reis Thebault, Washington Post, 27 Jan. 2023
  • There is a new generation of Dominicans that are committed towards walking alongside of Haitian, a new generation of Haitians that are committed to identifying the problems and working towards change.
    Janice Gassam Asare, Forbes, 19 Dec. 2022
  • Racial progress continues its unsteady, sometimes vertiginous, movement alongside of the politics of backlash and intolerance.
    Richard Galant, CNN, 27 Feb. 2022
  • Our application was denied alongside of Fidelity’s and several others.
    Sonali Basak, Fortune, 24 Apr. 2022
  • Oedema will not spread from one plant to another, but certain varieties are genetically predisposed to develop symptoms earlier or to a greater degree compared to other lines when multiple varieties are sown alongside of each other.
    oregonlive, 10 Apr. 2022

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