all along

Example Sentences

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By the time the table was in my apartment, 33 floors above downtown Los Angeles, I wondered if that was what I had been doing all along — seeing if I still believed in beginnings.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 5, 2026

Israel has been searching for tunnels crossing between the Hamas and Israeli areas of control by drilling all along the yellow line.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 24, 2026

Since then, the two sides have exchanged multiple proposals, with the threat of renewed war looming all along.

From Barron's • May 22, 2026

"I knew Trump was going to announce it; I've said it all along," said Loperena, 69, who lives in Clovis, California.

From BBC • May 8, 2026

Before he died in 1883, he confessed to Samuel Cox Jr. that he had known all along that the injured stranger at his door was John Wilkes Booth.

From "Chasing Lincoln's Killer" by James L. Swanson