run abreast
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The start is a spacious straightaway where the wide, charging line of horses can run abreast for about 500 yards.
From Time Magazine Archive
The road was wide enough for two wagons to run abreast, but I moved to the grass at the edge of the road anyway.
From "The Name of the Wind" by Patrick Rothfuss
She’s leaving us, Mr Hardy—keep more away, and run abreast of her.
From The King's Own by Frederick Marryat
It was wide enough for two voles to run abreast in.
From "Wee Tim'rous Beasties" Studies of Animal life and Character by Douglas English
The walking here is excellent; a dozen persons might run abreast for a quarter of a mile to Bunyan's Way, a branch of the avenue, leading on to the river.
From Rambles in the Mammoth Cave, during the Year 1844 By a Visiter by Alexander Clark Bullitt
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