parallel to
Example Sentences
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Instead of placing the anode and cathode parallel to each other, the new design positions them perpendicular.
From Science Daily • Apr. 19, 2026
Residents resorted to burying the bodies just outside school grounds; more than 20 graves run parallel to the school’s outer wall, each marked with a broken cinder block.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 12, 2026
Every president since has challenged Iran over concerns about Gulf shipping, but President Ronald Reagan faced the closest parallel to today’s Hormuz shutdown during what was called the tanker war in the late 1980s.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 21, 2026
This process is running parallel to the victims' existing compensation case.
From BBC • Feb. 5, 2026
Floating toward him parallel to the fence is a black boy astride a mule.
From "Jazz" by Toni Morrison
