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Example Sentences
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Quality is almost beside the point.
Zoo docents hovered nearby to answer questions while parents crouched beside their toddlers and pointed to similarities with the apes’ hands and feet.
From Los Angeles Times
So can the capital's wildlife compare to the broadcaster's encounters with mountain gorillas in Rwanda, the mimicry of a lyrebird in Australia or a blue whale breaching beside his small boat?
From BBC
He found the Cynic sunning himself beside his ceramic home and offered to grant the man any favor or fulfill any request.
On one wall, a small black-and-white watercolor of Chalino Sánchez he painted himself hangs beside a framed Mexico 1998 World Cup jersey.
From Los Angeles Times
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