How to Use parallel in a Sentence

parallel

1 of 3 adjective

• These two sentences are parallel in structure.
• Notice the parallel development of the two technologies.
• Could a new rail line be built parallel to the freight tracks?
  — Steve Harrison, charlotteobserver, 27 Oct. 2017
• While you’re at it, swing the dugouts out parallel with the foul lines.
  — Scott Ostler, SFChronicle.com, 17 June 2018
• The left knee will be bent, the right heel is down, the right foot is parallel to the back of the mat.
  — Angela Peterson, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 13 Mar. 2018
• Its body consists of a series of parallel tubes that form the wall of the bag.
  — John Timmer, Ars Technica, 21 June 2019
• In a sit spin, the upper part of the leg not on the ice needs to be at least parallel to the ice.
  — Nadine El-Bawab, ABC News, 3 Feb. 2022
• Bring it parallel with the water on one side of you and then the other.
  — Jesse Pearson, latimes.com, 11 July 2019
• If the saw held true along the cut, that told us that its shoe edge and blade are parallel.
  — Roy Berendsohn, Popular Mechanics, 9 July 2019
• In this case, the cargo could be laid out in parallel or in a straight line.
  — Joe Pappalardo, Popular Mechanics, 9 Oct. 2018
• The show follows a group of kids and adults that battle the forces of a parallel universe.
  — Marianne Garvey, CNN, 15 Aug. 2022
• Try to keep your back flat and parallel with the floor and hips square rather than tilted.
  — Jen Murphy, WSJ, 17 Oct. 2020
• In this parallel world, lupine lore tells of a human child who will speak for the wolves.
  — Meghan Cox Gurdon, WSJ, 2 Sep. 2022
• Spread out the hide, flesh-side up, and with your knife, slice holes parallel to the edge of the hide.
  — Tim MacWelch, Outdoor Life, 24 Dec. 2020
• My phone call was very parallel to Neal’s call back in the day.
  — Jon Blistein, Rolling Stone, 28 July 2023
• Then lift both knees until your shins are parallel to the floor.
  — Lauren Bedosky, Outside Online, 18 Nov. 2020
• That line runs parallel to the Epcot spur for a stretch.
  — Dewayne Bevil, orlandosentinel.com, 26 Sep. 2019
• To try this trick, hold the flashlights upright, parallel to the wall.
  — Brigitt Earley, Good Housekeeping, 2 Sep. 2020
• Here is a parallel art world in which hope springs eternal.
  — New York Times, 23 May 2022
• Then, lift your top leg up and down, keeping it parallel to the floor.
  — Leah Prinzivalli, SELF, 16 June 2018
• Your torso should be almost parallel to the floor, and the weights should reach your shins.
  — Jenny McCoy, SELF, 6 Nov. 2023
• Using your off hand to lift the hide and your knife hand to make cuts parallel to the meat, begin to peel away the hide.
  — Natalie Krebs, Outdoor Life, 7 Sep. 2023
• Lift your left leg until your quad is parallel to the ground, your knee bent.
  — Jenny McCoy, Outside Online, 18 Apr. 2022
• Keep your chest up, bend your knees and push your hips back until the back of your thighs are parallel with the floor.
  — Kelly Dinardo, Star Tribune, 11 Sep. 2020
• Push hips back and bend knees until thighs are nearly parallel to the floor.
  — Andi Breitowich, Women's Health, 26 July 2023
• Fold over at hips so that torso is nearly parallel to the floor.
  — Addison Aloian, Women's Health, 23 Aug. 2023
• Bend your knees and lower your hips down until your thighs are parallel to the floor.
  — Rozalynn S. Frazier, Health.com, 1 Aug. 2019
• Raise your elbow so your upper arm is parallel to the ground.
  — Men's Health, 8 May 2023
• Squeeze legs together and engage abs to lift bent legs so calves are parallel to the floor.
  — Jennifer Nied, Women's Health, 17 May 2023
• End-grain boards are formed by using pieces of wood cut parallel to the ground, like a cross section.
  — Washington Post, 1 Mar. 2021

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parallel

2 of 3 noun

• These myths have some striking parallels with myths found in cultures around the world.
• There are many parallels between the stories.
• Most of the United States is south of the 49th parallel.
• The more fibers working in parallel, the greater the force.
  — Rhett Allain, Wired, 7 Apr. 2021
• The video draws a parallel to the last year and a half in lockdown.
  — Daniela Avila, PEOPLE.com, 13 Aug. 2021
• Is there a parallel to be drawn to the erotic stories in the ?
  — Norman Vanamee, Town & Country, 16 Mar. 2020
• And this part, there’s a rough parallel to the web, right?
  — Recode Staff, Recode, 17 July 2018
• Hold the file along the bevel but with the file’s edge parallel to the chisel.
  — Roy Berendsohn, Popular Mechanics, 7 June 2023
• Which has good things and bad things, but there are a lot of parallels.
  — Eric Johnson, Vox, 26 June 2019
• At the convention, the cast and crew for the show spoke about how the show draws parallels with the present day.
  — Andrew Liptak, The Verge, 20 July 2019
• That thing where the car parallel parks itself for you.
  — River Clegg, The New Yorker, 13 Jan. 2023
• Raise your arms outward to the sides until parallel to the floor.
  — Andi Breitowich, Women's Health, 11 May 2023
• For all the rest of the cuts, insert your knife under the hide and cut parallel to the meat or away from the meat.
  — Natalie Krebs, Outdoor Life, 7 Sep. 2023
• Slice through the bottom of the meat with your knife parallel to the bone, angling straight down.
  — Katlyn Moncada, Better Homes & Gardens, 20 Oct. 2022
• Holding a sharp knife parallel to the beef, slice it in half width wise.
  — Claire Perez, Sun-Sentinel.com, 6 Oct. 2017
• Well, there's a lot of parallels in the moments, the challenges.
  — Fox News, 17 May 2018
• But all of them can—and in fact are—acting in parallel.
  — John Timmer, Ars Technica, 10 May 2022
• Each part of the data was taken parallel to the others.
  — Joshua Hawkins, BGR, 18 Aug. 2022
• There's not an exact parallel in the way the right and the left seek out like-minded news sources.
  — Nicholas Kristof, Anchorage Daily News, 19 Feb. 2018
• Place them above the knives and spoons, with your wine glasses roughly stacked parallel to the spoon.
  — Elise Taylor, Vogue, 19 Dec. 2022
• The shift to video therapy is more than just a work-at-home parallel.
  — Annie Vainshtein, SFChronicle.com, 27 Mar. 2020
• The crystals rotate in parallel to let light pass through.
  — Scharon Harding, Ars Technica, 25 June 2022
• Times and tastes change, but there are still some pretty big parallels.
  — James Grebey, GQ, 12 June 2018
• But, other than the fact that the worlds come from the same mind, what other parallels do these two towns share?
  — Carolyn Twersky, Seventeen, 10 May 2019
• And these are the two that are sort of proceeding in parallel and are very likely to be combined.
  — Scott Nover, Quartz, 29 July 2022
• Keeping your chest parallel to the ground, lift your right foot off the ground and drive right knee to touch your right elbow.
  — Brett Williams, Men's Health, 7 Dec. 2022
• The parallel used to be home to prime hop-growing conditions.
  — Marc Bona, cleveland, 15 Nov. 2022
• Tompkins didn't plan it that way — the parallels just fell into place.
  — Domenica Bongiovanni, Indianapolis Star, 24 Oct. 2019
• But then there’s this, running parallel to the lure of speed: A cook’s joy.
  — Alex Van Buren, idahostatesman, 22 Feb. 2018
• Each of these parallels sheds some light on our current predicament.
  — Masha Gessen, The New Yorker, 18 Mar. 2020

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parallel

3 of 3 verb

• The highway parallels the river.
• Spending is paralleled by an increase in the number of loans given.
• Their test results parallel our own.
• Rising prices parallel increasing fuel costs.
• Pull it in, back it in, and find a place to parallel park the car.
  — Houston Chronicle, 9 Mar. 2018
• The tiny sprouts in the foreground parallel the mature trees in the background to the left.
  — Danny Wilcox Frazier, Smithsonian, 21 Feb. 2018
• Bend your knees to sit into a deep squat with your thighs parallel to the ground.
  — Elizabeth Narins, Cosmopolitan, 28 June 2016
• But for that to translate to wins, the defense needs to parallel that.
  — Katherine Fitzgerald, The Arizona Republic, 14 Aug. 2020
• But, of course, there are lots of things that aren't parallel.
  — John Timmer, Ars Technica, 17 Oct. 2023
• Keep your head parallel to your arms and your spine elongated through the neck.
  — Hayden Carpenter, Outside Online, 9 Aug. 2019
• Turn right again as the main trail swings around to parallel Plaza del Amo.
  — Charles Fleming, latimes.com, 14 June 2019
• Raise your arms to chest height with your palms parallel to each other (a).
  — Daily Burn, Health.com, 3 Oct. 2017
• Bring tension to the tubes by stepping out and parallel to your anchor.
  — Jenny McCoy, SELF, 6 Feb. 2018
• Kick the leg out directly in front of you, keeping it straight and parallel with a flexed foot.
  — Michelle Ward Trainor, PEOPLE.com, 14 Feb. 2018
• The control structure is a concrete weir that parallels the river for a mile and a half.
  — Littice Bacon-Blood, NOLA.com, 7 Mar. 2018
• The campground paralleled a low canyon, the wall lifting abruptly up from a patch of tents and shiny camper vans.
  — Alli Harvey, Anchorage Daily News, 10 May 2018
• The entrance to the trails is a walk along a grassy path that parallels a hay field teeming with birds and butterflies.
  — Peter Marteka, courant.com, 28 June 2019
• City officials closed off a section of the public trail along the beach that parallels the tracks.
  — Phil Diehl, San Diego Union-Tribune, 29 Apr. 2023
• Push your butt back and bend your knees to squat down to parallel (or the most comfortable depth for you) and pause for a beat.
  — Men's Health, 5 May 2023
• Place sheets of dough parallel to each other, aligning on a longer edge.
  — Nancy Stohs, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 29 Nov. 2019
• The attack-ad scene parallels one from the show’s pilot, in which the premise is introduced.
  — Niela Orr, New York Times, 29 Mar. 2023
• His love of golf was paralleled only by his love of family.
  — courant.com, 23 June 2019
• The duo met on the course but quickly learned that their lives paralleled, and they were headed for self-destruction.
  — Gary Curreri, sun-sentinel.com, 18 July 2019
• Once thighs are about parallel with the floor, press through feet to return to standing position.
  — Andi Breitowich, Women's Health, 9 Mar. 2023
• Or the shiftless pool man whose slide into despair seems to parallel the fires and mudslides that are chewing up the hills around him.
  — Steve Marble, latimes.com, 24 Jan. 2018
• The trail follows an old wagon road paralleling the creek.
  — Roger Naylor, azcentral, 13 July 2018
• Many of the maneuvers parallel those used in other cases.
  — Jonathan Lai, Philly.com, 8 Mar. 2018
• Its sprawling design parallels this city’s depth and grandeur.
  — Astrid Kayembe, Los Angeles Times, 7 June 2023
• What draws you to parallel worlds that aren’t at the forefront of design conversations?
  — Sarah Khan, ELLE Decor, 19 Jan. 2021
• Even talking to you about all of this, I’m reminded of all these life parallels.
  — Michael Loré, Robb Report, 14 June 2023

Last Updated: 29 Apr 2024