How to Use parallel in a Sentence

parallel

1 of 4 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
• Aim to go low enough so that your thighs are parallel to the floor.
  — Jenessa Connor, Health, 10 June 2026
• And that’s parallel with mom life.
  — Jackie Strause, HollywoodReporter, 15 Oct. 2025
• Draw two parallel lines on a flat sheet of paper.
  — Paul M. Sutter, Scientific American, 27 Mar. 2026
• Then lift both knees until your shins are parallel to the floor.
  — Lauren Bedosky, Outside Online, 18 Nov. 2020
• If the saw held true along the cut, that told us that its shoe edge and blade are parallel.
  — Alex Rennie, Popular Mechanics, 26 June 2023
• My phone call was very parallel to Neal’s call back in the day.
  — Jon Blistein, Rolling Stone, 28 July 2023
• Swim parallel to the shore and then swim back to land at an angle.
  — Saleen Martin, USA Today, 21 Aug. 2025
• Drive was walking parallel with the bear, a few yards to one side.
  — Frank C. Hibben, Outdoor Life, 13 Feb. 2025
• Then, lift your top leg up and down, keeping it parallel to the floor.
  — Leah Prinzivalli, SELF, 16 June 2018
• In this case, the cargo could be laid out in parallel or in a straight line.
  — Joe Pappalardo, Popular Mechanics, 9 Oct. 2018
• Lift your left leg until your quad is parallel to the ground, your knee bent.
  — Jenny McCoy, Outside Online, 18 Apr. 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
• 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
• 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
• All of these things are weirdly parallel tracks.
  — Jack Denton, Vulture, 18 Mar. 2026
• Bring it parallel with the water on one side of you and then the other.
  — Jesse Pearson, latimes.com, 11 July 2019
• Fold over at hips so that torso is nearly parallel to the floor.
  — Addison Aloian, Women's Health, 23 Aug. 2023
• Place the snakes parallel to each other.
  — Kate Williams, AJC.com, 18 May 2026
• But there may be a lot of other parallel tracks to the way life arrived here.
  — Quanta Magazine, 9 July 2026
• Its body consists of a series of parallel tubes that form the wall of the bag.
  — John Timmer, Ars Technica, 21 June 2019
• Raise your elbow so your upper arm is parallel to the ground.
  — Men's Health, 8 May 2023
• Push hips back and bend knees until thighs are nearly parallel to the floor.
  — Andi Breitowich, Women's Health, 26 July 2023
• 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
• Then try to direct the swimmer to swim parallel to shore.
  — Howard Cohen, Miami Herald, 7 Apr. 2026
• Bend your knees and lower your hips down until your thighs are parallel to the floor.
  — Rozalynn S. Frazier, Health.com, 1 Aug. 2019
• The seed is spread in parallel rows that create an even carpet of young grass.
  — Kim Toscano, Southern Living, 9 Mar. 2026

parallel

2 of 4 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.
• Pick up the ball parallel to the free-throw line.
  — Julia Poe, Chicago Tribune, 4 Jan. 2026
• There are some parallels to the two.
  — Theresa Braine, New York Daily News, 27 May 2026
• The king, the fool — there are so many parallels for me.
  — Scott Roxborough, HollywoodReporter, 17 May 2026
• And the parallels are very, very clear.
  — Jackson Thompson, FOXNews.com, 12 Sep. 2025
• And the parallels are very, very clear.
  — Jackson Thompson, FOXNews.com, 18 Dec. 2025
• So for me, there’s a parallel there.
  — Julia Teti, Footwear News, 20 May 2026
• There’s a parallel to be drawn here.
  — Corey Masisak, Denver Post, 17 May 2026
• Which has good things and bad things, but there are a lot of parallels.
  — Eric Johnson, Vox, 26 June 2019
• The parallels do not stop there.
  — Paulo Carvão, Forbes.com, 21 Aug. 2025
• There are all of these parallels.
  — Stewart Clarke, Deadline, 12 Oct. 2025
• Such are the parallels between my life then and my life now.
  — Bob Brody, Baltimore Sun, 9 May 2026
• The video draws a parallel to the last year and a half in lockdown.
  — Daniela Avila, PEOPLE.com, 13 Aug. 2021
• The parallels are not subtle, and they are not lost on me.
  — Josh Elliott, Hartford Courant, 23 Feb. 2026
• That said, there are parallels.
  — Essence, 31 Jan. 2026
• And so this sort of usage is a parallel.
  — Torie Bosch, STAT, 20 June 2026
• The wild-eyed elk turned and trotted parallel to me.
  — Jack Atcheson Sr. As Told To Michael Hanback, Outdoor Life, 11 Sep. 2025
• Holding a sharp knife parallel to the beef, slice it in half width wise.
  — Claire Perez, Sun-Sentinel.com, 6 Oct. 2017
• There'll be a lot of things going in parallel.
  — John Ramos, CBS News, 24 Mar. 2026
• Cats, like dogs, have walked a path parallel to ours for centuries.
  — Rebecca Van Laer september 30, Literary Hub, 30 Sep. 2025
• Times and tastes change, but there are still some pretty big parallels.
  — James Grebey, GQ, 12 June 2018
• Stand up straight, with your chin parallel to the ground and your eyes forward.
  — Wendy Bumgardner, Verywell Health, 10 Sep. 2025
• But the parallels from the two weekends are there.
  — Alex Kalinauckas, New York Times, 9 Mar. 2026
• All of these can be pursued in parallel.
  — Peter Bendor-Samuel, Forbes.com, 3 Sep. 2025
• Keach, 77, saw parallels to his own life.
  — Steve Bloom, Rolling Stone, 16 June 2026
• Whether that parallel holds remains to be seen.
  — Jordan Moreau, Variety, 7 Jan. 2026
• Is there a parallel to be drawn to the erotic stories in the ?
  — Norman Vanamee, Town & Country, 16 Mar. 2020
• The legal parallels are just as close.
  — Steven Melendez, Scientific American, 17 Apr. 2026

parallel

3 of 4 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
• But, of course, there are lots of things that aren't parallel.
  — John Timmer, Ars Technica, 17 Oct. 2023
• Bend your knees to sit into a deep squat with your thighs parallel to the ground.
  — Elizabeth Narins, Cosmopolitan, 28 June 2016
• Raise your arms to chest height with your palms parallel to each other (a).
  — Daily Burn, Health.com, 3 Oct. 2017
• Keep your head parallel to your arms and your spine elongated through the neck.
  — Hayden Carpenter, Outside Online, 9 Aug. 2019
• But for that to translate to wins, the defense needs to parallel that.
  — Katherine Fitzgerald, The Arizona Republic, 14 Aug. 2020
• Place sheets of dough parallel to each other, aligning on a longer edge.
  — Nancy Stohs, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 29 Nov. 2019
• Turn right again as the main trail swings around to parallel Plaza del Amo.
  — Charles Fleming, latimes.com, 14 June 2019
• A lot of what Annie has gone through has weirdly paralleled my own life.
  — Brian Davids, HollywoodReporter, 22 Apr. 2026
• Bring tension to the tubes by stepping out and parallel to your anchor.
  — Jenny McCoy, SELF, 6 Feb. 2018
• Its sprawling design parallels this city’s depth and grandeur.
  — Astrid Kayembe, Los Angeles Times, 7 June 2023
• The tiny sprouts in the foreground parallel the mature trees in the background to the left.
  — Danny Wilcox Frazier, Smithsonian, 21 Feb. 2018
• The death of freedom of speech would parallel the death of our democracy.
  — Letters To The Editor, Hartford Courant, 27 June 2026
• 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
• Sit your hips back and down, reaching a depth that gets your hips and knees as close to parallel as possible.
  — Dana Santas, CNN Money, 12 Dec. 2025
• That parallels the trend indoors — both in furnishings and in the kitchen.
  — Elaine Markoutsas, Miami Herald, 30 Jan. 2024
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• Once thighs are about parallel with the floor, press through feet to return to standing position.
  — Andi Breitowich, Women's Health, 9 Mar. 2023
• 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
• 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
• Our careers have paralleled each other the entire time.
  — Ryan Gaydos, FOXNews.com, 28 Apr. 2026
• 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
• In this way, democracy parallels jazz.
  — Steven D. Reske, Chicago Tribune, 24 May 2026

parallel

4 of 4 adverb

• Instead, swimmers are advised to move parallel to the beach to escape the current's grip.
  — Amanda Castro hannah Parry, MSNBC Newsweek, 21 Aug. 2025
• The two aircraft were flying parallel over Long Island.
  — Alexandra Skores, CNN Money, 17 Sep. 2025
• Ivo is forecast to move parallel to, but offshore of, the coast of Mexico through the next day or two before turning westward away from Mexico thereafter.
  — Gabe Hauari, USA Today, 7 Aug. 2025
• Drivers saw delays throughout the day Friday as streets running parallel to and crossing 19th Avenue also slowed while people looked for alternate routes.
  — Kenny Choi, CBS News, 25 Apr. 2026
• The center of Priscilla is forecast to move parallel to, but offshore of, the coast of west-central Mexico and Baja California Sur during the next couple of days.
  — Gabe Hauari, USA Today, 7 Oct. 2025
• The lymphatic system collects that fluid from your tissues and routes it through a network of vessels, nodes and organs running parallel to the circulatory system throughout nearly the entire body, per StatPearls.
  — Allison Palmer, Charlotte Observer, 29 June 2026
• Forecasters said the center of the system is expected to move parallel to the coast of southwestern Mexico and Baja California Sur through the early-to-middle part of this week.
  — Gabe Hauari, USA Today, 6 Oct. 2025
• On the forecast track, the center of the cyclone is expected to move parallel to the southwestern coast of Mexico through Friday and then approach southern Baja California Sur over the weekend.
  — Gabe Hauari, USA Today, 10 Oct. 2025
• Deaths, personal injury and extensive property damage are almost certain to spur legal battles in the coming months and years, often running parallel to the ongoing NTSB investigation.
  — Connor Giffin, Louisville Courier Journal, 6 Nov. 2025
• On the forecast track, the center of Lorena is expected to move parallel to the west coast of the Baja California peninsula Wednesday and Thursday before approaching the coast Thursday night and Friday.
  — Gabe Hauari, USA Today, 4 Sep. 2025