Sentence Examples

1. The passageway sloped in a gentle descent, enlarging as they proceeded still Franz and the count were compelled to advance in a stooping posture, and were scarcely able to proceed abreast of one another.
2. The walls were easily as tall as ten men, thicker than four or five standing abreast, and made from a magically endowed dark-gray granite that some claimed was harder than arcite, the metal used in the most expensive weapons and armor in the world.
3. The Triari came abreast of me and looked me up and down.
4. Heels clacked against the brick walkway and then granite steps wide enough for four to walk abreast.
5. He had kept abreast of the times, and he knew that the governor arid the men about him were sorely in need of more funds to waste in riotous living.
6. The dirt path we had been traversing opened to a cobblestone road wide enough for two carriages to ride abreast.
7. When the trumpets blared, announcing their event, Draco rode beside Calder onto the field, with the others following four abreast behind them.
8. The moon shone clear above them, and they rode swiftly abreast, taking that course which the maid must needs have taken if she were to reach her own home.
9. They were just abreast of Mareciana, and beyond the flat but verdant Island of La Pianosa.
10. A detachment of carbineers, fifteen abreast, galloped up the Corso in order to clear it for the barberi.