How to Use along in a Sentence

along

1 of 2 preposition

• The ship sailed along the coast.
• The chairs were lined up along the wall.
• We walked along the beach.
• We drove to Boston and we stopped along the way for lunch.
• The storm surge and tide will cause flooding along the coast.
  — Minyvonne Burke, NBC News, 15 Sep. 2023
• Crowds gathered along the route and at the finish line.
  — Jesse Zanger, CBS News, 5 Nov. 2023
• The plan today is to meander in a loop along the Thames.
  — Zing Tsjeng, Vogue, 20 Mar. 2024
• All the umpires could do was pass along New York’s ruling.
  — Evan Grant, Dallas News, 21 June 2023
• In the end, his fears were quelled as attendees rapped along word-for-word to every song in the set.
  — Steven J. Horowitz, Variety, 14 Apr. 2024
• Barbie’s living the dream and cruising along the West Coast, with plans to stop in the Bay Area this month.
  — Linda Zavoral, The Mercury News, 7 Mar. 2024
• And every place along the eclipse path is clear on some days and cloudy on others.
  — Leah Sarnoff, ABC News, 1 Apr. 2024
• Most hotels sit along the southern coast in Wailea or the west coast in Ka’anapali and Lahaina.
  — Genevieve Ko, Travel + Leisure, 31 Jan. 2024
• The four settlers were in a clearing; one had an M16 and was walking along the edge of the terraced grove of olive trees.
  — Shane Bauer, The New Yorker, 26 Feb. 2024
• The man was uninjured but trapped from the waist down in a crevasse along the cliff, San Diego Fire-Rescue said.
  — Meredith Deliso, ABC News, 22 Dec. 2023
• So, bring it along to lounge around in your Airbnb, dress it up for a nice dinner, or sport it on a long car ride.
  — Alexandra Domrongchai, Travel + Leisure, 3 Sep. 2023
• The gallery sputtered along in a depleted version of itself, and closed the next year.
  — Max Lakin, New York Times, 29 Sep. 2023
• Israel hasn’t had boots on the ground along the border since 2005, when the country withdrew its forces from the Gaza Strip.
  — Heba Farouk Mahfouz, Washington Post, 31 Jan. 2024
• Black-and-yellow taxis beetled along Apollo Bunder, the road in front of the hotel.
  — Flora Stubbs, Travel + Leisure, 28 Nov. 2023
• Dianne Bennett had spent a lot of time walking along the reefs and knew the soundtrack well.
  — Aspen Pflughoeft, Miami Herald, 26 Feb. 2024
• With the cubby box upside down (so the longer edges of the cubby dividers are down), align the board for the bottom of the cubbies along the sides.
  — Lucy Fitzgerald, Better Homes & Gardens, 14 Feb. 2024
• Itching to bring along a hand cream, pack of tissues, or smart reader?
  — Nneya Richards, Travel + Leisure, 17 Jan. 2024
• No members of that party knew they were being watched along the route.
  — The Salt Lake Tribune, 29 July 2023
• In the clip, Black and Gass strut around the red carpet, doing dance moves and jump-kicking while belting along to the D’s hard rock take on the 1998 pop smash.
  — Jon Blistein, Rolling Stone, 8 Mar. 2024
• The groundwork was laid years ago for the changes along the stretch of West Markham Street, a locus of city government offices.
  — Joseph Flaherty, Arkansas Online, 8 Aug. 2023
• From the tourists who crossed paths with the group along the concourses and hallways, there was not a single flash of recognition of the pros.
  — Michael Silverman, BostonGlobe.com, 17 July 2023
• Two months later, the remains of six more bodies were unearthed along the beach.
  — Brenton Blanchet, Peoplemag, 29 July 2023
• Here's a breakdown of which places along the path of totality are most likely to give eclipse chasers the best odds.
  — Eric Henderson, CBS News, 1 Apr. 2024
• But the 175 or so parking spots along the beach will not be accessible.
  — Laylan Connelly, Orange County Register, 25 Feb. 2024
• Camp Lejeune was built in a sandy pine forest along the North Carolina coast in the early 1940s.
  — TIME, 1 Feb. 2024
• The notepad’s pages tore off along the top, shimmery on one side and nearly translucent in appearance.
  — Justine McDaniel, Washington Post, 22 Dec. 2023

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along

2 of 2 adverb

• The police told the people in the crowd to move along.
• We walked along beside the road.
• We looked at the houses as we drove along.
• I was just walking along, minding my own business.
• Plans for a new stadium are already pretty far along.
• The whole room of about a dozen people joined in to sing along.
  — Jeong Park, Los Angeles Times, 28 Dec. 2023
• She is scheduled to go along on the trip to ease the journey.
  — William Wan, Washington Post, 8 Nov. 2023
• So she's gone back and forth, and Ken has kind of been along for that ride.
  — Chris Klimek, Smithsonian Magazine, 27 July 2023
• The crowd flowed along, hands uplifted and side-to-side in time.
  — Holly Gleason, Variety, 2 June 2023
• The dog’s rump is attached to the front of the bird, and the result trots happily along.
  — Anthony Lane, The New Yorker, 1 Dec. 2023
• They were pogo-ing along excitedly by the end of the show.
  — August Brown, Los Angeles Times, 15 Apr. 2023
• The kids sang and danced along to acts like Lionel Richie, Katy Perry and more.
  — Janine Henni, Peoplemag, 8 May 2023
• The book will bring readers along on Morgan's quest to find her voice.
  — Lizz Schumer, Peoplemag, 11 Apr. 2024
• Time hurries along through the year, but the years never pass—a great comfort.
  — Rivka Galchen, The New Yorker, 23 Oct. 2023
• But how far along was their research, and what happens now to all of their work?
  — Michael Schneider, Variety, 22 Jan. 2024
• Listen to the words and read along, and if that does not convince you, then nothing will.
  — Ben Flanagan | [e-mail], al, 2 Sep. 2023
• Mosh pits form while others in the crowd dance, jump and scream along; crowd surfers soar across the entire venue.
  — Josh Chesler, SPIN, 15 May 2023
• De Aquino has gotten to go along on overflights of the crater, the first time terrified.
  — MarÍa Verza, BostonGlobe.com, 27 May 2023
• What is clear is that the project rolled along in the following years, and the foundation was laid in summer 2017.
  — Nimet Kirac, New York Times, 4 May 2023
• But then along came John Pryce with a new and better memory to take its place.
  — Annie Daly, Condé Nast Traveler, 27 Sep. 2023
• Pull on your favorite Taylor tee, make those friendship bracelets and don’t be afraid to sing along to all the hits.
  — Lauren Brown West-Rosenthal, Parents, 6 Oct. 2023
• In the latest video, Morant is riding in passenger seat of a car while singing along to a rap song.
  — oregonlive, 14 May 2023
• People will be laughing, crying, and singing along to so many of the songs performed that night.
  — Matt Wake | [e-mail], al, 13 Apr. 2023
• Feel free to keep on passing it along as there has been no report of any sighting so far.
  — Ingrid Vasquez, Peoplemag, 21 Oct. 2023
• The film coasts along on the strength of many snippets of music and anecdotes from a parade of singers and producers.
  — Caryn James, The Hollywood Reporter, 12 Mar. 2024
• To help move things along, talk to your doctor about stool softeners.
  — Devan McGuinness, Parents, 3 Sep. 2023
• Adventurers sleep in the Pioneer House but will need to bring some of the comforts of home along.
  — Miami Staff, Miami Herald, 30 Jan. 2024
• As the two frontrunners plod along, there's been a lot of action trying to supplant them.
  — Tal Axelrod, ABC News, 21 Dec. 2023
• At that scale the electric field that speeds the electrons along comes from the light’s oscillating electric field.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 26 Dec. 2023
• For live updates as results come in, follow along here.
  — Indystar Staff, The Indianapolis Star, 2 May 2023

Last Updated: 3 May 2024