run abreast
Example Sentences
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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
On a level with the spot on which I was standing stretched a series of embankments, each one about 70 feet high, and of breadth sufficient for four railway trucks to run abreast on them.
From The Travels of Marco Polo — Volume 2 by Yule, Henry
She’s leaving us, Mr Hardy—keep more away, and run abreast of her.
From The King's Own by Marryat, Frederick
It was wide enough for two voles to run abreast in.
From "Wee Tim'rous Beasties" Studies of Animal life and Character by English, Douglas
