along1 adverbalong2 preposition
alonga‧long1 /əˈlɒŋ $ əˈlɒːŋ/ ●●● S1 W1 adverb 
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES
- He showed me the notes he had made as we went along.
- I was driving along, listening to the radio.
- A door banged several yards along.
- For five minutes she is moving along as usual.
- I did not persuade or influence him; he intended all along to stick it out until the end.
- I spent more time with the law, along with family, in a general, small practice.
- I stay a few feet behind, watching the three of them shuffle along at a ten-month-old's pace.
- It was not a big deal: all the unions were expected to go along.
- They had enjoyed each other's company over the last hour, hacking along the foreshore of the estuary.
- When data is fed into input, D1 and a clock pulse given, the data moves along one place.
Longman Language Activatorduring the whole of an event or period of time
: all the time (that) · I couldn't really enjoy my holiday because I was sick all the time I was there.· All the time I was talking to him he just sat and stared at the television.
during all of a particular period of time, especially when this is a long time: · Lester was sickly all through his childhood.· Yvonne lived in Switzerland throughout the war.
during all of the day, night, summer etc: · It often rains here all day long.· The music coming from the apartment upstairs kept me awake all night long.
if a particular situation has existed all along , it has existed all the time right from the beginning, although you may not have known about it: · I spent over an hour looking for my keys, and they were in my purse all along.be right all along: · He realized that she'd been right all along.
if an event or something that you do is good, bad etc from start to finish , it is like that from the time it begins until it ends: · It was an awful day at work - problems from start to finish.· The whole thing was a disaster from beginning to end.
done in a particular way · She was looking at me in a very strange way.· The wedding ceremony was conducted in quite a formal manner.
formal if you do something in a particular fashion , you do it in a particular way: · There's no reason why we can't behave in a civilized fashion even though we're getting divorced.
: with enthusiasm/care/envy/delight etc enthusiastically, carefully etc: · A sign warned motorists to drive with care.· He has borne his illness with great courage.· They set about tackling the problem with a great deal of enthusiasm.· "My daughter's been selected for the Olympic team," she said, with understandable pride.
in a particular way: like this/that: · You mustn't talk to people like that - it's very rude.· They were all waving their arms around, like this.like somebody (=in the same way as someone): · He stood bolt upright, like a soldier.· He moves and talks just like his father.
done or made in a way that is typical of a place, group of people etc - use this after another noun or adjective: · Although he was educated in India, he went to an English-style boarding school.· They live in a beautiful little country-style house on the edge of town.· He wore his gun at the hip, cowboy-style.
if something is done along particular lines , it is done in a way that is similar to the way you have mentioned: along socialist/military/institutional etc lines: · The school was run along almost military lines.along the same/similar lines: · We must have been thinking along the same lines, because we both said together, "Let's get out of here!"
in a way that seems to show that something has happened, something is true etc, even though this might not always be what has happened, what is true etc: · Dreen looked as if he'd seen a ghost.· She moved her legs slowly, as though in pain.
formal in a particular way - used in literature: · The affair had been conducted with an air of mystery which he disliked.· Lila came out into the yard with an air of happy confidence.
with another thing or other things · I've put our passports in your handbag with the travellers cheques.· I hope you haven't thrown that letter out with the garbage!· a traditional Christmas dinner of roast turkey with all the trimmings
together in the same place, or added together , not separately: · Mix the butter and the sugar together.· That skirt and jacket look really good together.· Together these two paintings are worth more than $10,000.
in the same place as another thing or other things: · I keep my insurance policy in the top drawer, along with my other important documents.· Put it over there along with the other presents.
if something that you buy comes with something else, it is sold with an additional object that is included in the price: · Every new camera comes with a leather case and free film.· All the main courses come with salad and chips.· We have 5000 log cabins to rent. All come with their own private sauna.
an accompanying book, document etc, is one that you get together with something that you buy, and which gives you more information about it: accompanying booklet/volume/letter etc: · The video recorder has an accompanying booklet which contains full instructions.· Each coursebook has an accompanying workbook for grammar practice.
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
The boats were drifting farther and farther apart. a resort town farther up the coast She ran her fingers through his hair. He was making the story up as he went along. I was groping my way blindly through the trees. We were both thinking along the same lines (=in the same way). In South Africa, the press developed along very different lines (=in a very different way). We usually start with general questions along the lines of, ‘How do you feel?’ They’re trying to organize a trip to the beach or something along those lines. The committee was split along party lines. The community remains divided along religious lines. I’ve given talks so many times that now I just make them up as I go along (=think of things to say as I am speaking). The garden’s coming along very nicely now (=it is growing well).
· She loved to walk along the beach in the early morning.
· A muddy ditch ran along the side of the field.
The boats were drifting farther and farther apart. a resort town farther up the coast She ran her fingers through his hair. He was making the story up as he went along. I was groping my way blindly through the trees. We were both thinking along the same lines (=in the same way). In South Africa, the press developed along very different lines (=in a very different way). We usually start with general questions along the lines of, ‘How do you feel?’ They’re trying to organize a trip to the beach or something along those lines. The committee was split along party lines. The community remains divided along religious lines. I’ve given talks so many times that now I just make them up as I go along (=think of things to say as I am speaking).· He was driving along the motorway at a steady sixty miles an hour.
The garden’s coming along very nicely now (=it is growing well).· We had outgrown our house when the opportunity came up to buy one with more land.
COLLOCATIONS FROM THE CORPUSVERB· Else Lynes had also brought along her active class to perform a display item before a most appreciative audience.· With their tote bags, the immigrants brought alOng all their old prejudices, and immediately picked up some new ones.· Like Patterson and company in the past, he is being brought along for the experience.· Water, oxygen, and food will be brought along from Earth at a cost of several thousand dollars per pound.· Di Driver brought along some photographs taken just over a year ago.· A light jacket is good to bring along, as the weather is often chilly this time of year.· Pam has come down for a day of shopping, bringing along our adopted younger sister Kath.· She kept in the background, realizing that she had only been brought along to make up numbers.
· My Director-General asked me to come along because I usually handle the lower-level liaison with Number 10.· Johnny sat down and cried. Along came a fox, who asked Johnny why he was crying.· Then along came an entrepreneurial Yorkshireman called Thomas Stamford Raffles.· He put his knuckles on the wet tile, went into a three-point stance to test how the arm was coming along.· More humans will come along in the morning.· Let Hilda know if you are coming along.· I kind of gave it up by the time she came along.
· National literatures, like writers, get along the best way they can, and with what they can.· Our students are markedly lacking in social skills, the ability to meet people and to get along with them.· For a long time now we've called ourselves poor, but we've managed to get along.· Her major concern is how she will succeed at making sure the people on the teams get along with one another.· Wolves and Goblins seem to get along very well, and the two races have thrived together.· She used her conciliatory skills to get along with her remote grandfather, who provided so little company for her grandmother.· But we did get along all right.· The girls at the school remarked on how well the beasts got along.
· These pieces, on view in London, also went along the smugglers' network.· We are going along at top speed, because we are using all ours up just as fast as we can.· Remember that you are bound to go along some passages that are dead ends.· It has all of the requisite sand, surf, sun, snobs and sin to go along with its saucy swimwear.· She just went along the wall, and I didn't see her face.· But Ellison said Jobs ultimately decided not to go forward and he went along.· But no doubt you went along just in case.· He emphatically is not advocating parents to go along with kids' desires for tattoos.
· They must be helped along the funnel to Marseilles, M'mselle.· Since then, the death cap has been steadily expanding its range, helped along recently by a string of rainy winters.
· She hurries along the street, looking straight in front of her.· She saw a figure hurrying along the pavement towards her, and realised that it was Marco.· So she stopped off at her floor and hurried along to her room.· She hurried along the path, past matching stone lions, up a few stairs to the imposing door.· He hurried along the deserted early-morning pavements to the cinema.· She jumped out of the car and hurried along the road, ignoring the colourful epithet that followed her.· There's loads of shops with their lights on and traffic and people hurrying along the pavement.· The next instant, dizzy with the excitement that possessed her, she was hurrying along the corridor towards his office.
· It's a very good cruiser, too, moving along effortlessly at motorway limit speeds and above. 40.· For five minutes she is moving along as usual.· The whole of him vibrating with the bus as it moved along.· We are are so big, and move along with such momentum, that we are able to live through everything.· Instead of drifting along the ceiling of the corridor, the smoke moves along as a solid plug.· Director Scott Michell acquits himself admirably; this is his first feature, and it moves along smoothly, professionally, rhythmically.· The Mercedes moved along the Kurfurstendamm as snow started to fall again.· The plates would then presumably move along with the currents, connecting the upwellings and downwellings in giant convection cells.
· Thacker was not overjoyed to see them, but he played along, switching on the charm.· The neighbor, it turns out, is fashioning a crude, one-string instrument so he can play along.· Had he really thought that I would play along?· Of course, I play along.· Dustin, realising the error, decided to play along.· The Raiders played along with the theme.· I played along, saying I was acting on behalf of Boot-in Inc.· Shultz refused to play along, saying that Peres should convince his own prime minister.
· It had a nasty, disfiguring stain running along the whole of the top edge.· To some extent the answer is self-evident: State and national politics run along distinct and not always parallel tracks.· Steadying himself, he made his way over the roof and on to the parapet that ran along the side of the building.· A bench ran along one wall; there was a table in front of it.· His analysis of the situation ran along different lines.· People stopped and stared, or laughed, or ran along beside us screaming.· The road ran along the valley between them, where boulders had settled.· A promenade ran along the top, and Ruth saw Council workmen piling sandbags against the brightly painted railings.
· You can also sing along to the songs if you wish.· She played piano, and sang, and we all tried to sing along.· He even began to sing along quietly when Gary played.· A possible suitor wearing a Walkman sang along intermittently much louder than he realized.· The audience waved, swayed and sang along enthusiastically, as they had for the procession of artists who had preceded him.· The congregation was singing along vigorously and clapping.· One fan sang along and plucked at an imaginary guitar, but he turned out to be the roadie.· I like songs that you can sing along to, and you can remember.
PHRASES FROM THE ENTRY► take/bring somebody/something alongPHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES► come along!► I must/I’d better be getting along► go along with you!► get on/along like a house on fire► I’d better mosey along/be moseying along► move somebody ↔ along► play somebody along► must/should etc be pushing along► string somebody along
1going forward: - Add milk to the flour mixture, along with the melted butter.
- Grant arrived on the battlefield to find the Federals under heavy pressure all along their front.
- He has been polite to Paul all along.
- It was something he knew all along.
- It was then Gedanken realized that all along she had been hearing the voices of the beetles over a loudspeaker.
- That has been my position all along.
- The guns were all along the river bank as far as I could see.
- They probably thought I was crazy all along.
- We told Kelly all along what the doctors were saying.
- A Democratic Capitol Hill aide said it's too early to tell whether Congress will go along with the proposal.
- Gingrich listened carefully to the Tuesday Lunch Bunch, and sometimes came along to their meetings.
- If you would like to reassess your life and learn how to use stress to your advantage, come along.
- Other religious schools unwilling to go along with them should no longer expect state funding.
- Sam Fermoyle came along West Street.
- So I agreed to go along.
- The discussion groups were relatively open, and many people came along as friends of friends.
- Until Green Bay came along, either one of these two teams was going to win the Super Bowl.
- But every now and then, a bombshell comes along.
- Let Hilda know if you are coming along.
- Nevertheless, if we allow ourselves to be swayed by every fashion that comes along, we live in a perpetual muddle.
- Radiation, coming along shortly thereafter as a therapy method, reinforced this concept of cancer as a local body problem.
- Snake come along he bite you.
- They go to a place where they can be along and be able to find their soul.
- Until you came along, Century House was right out on a limb.
- You get these crackpot ideas about helping people who come along to you with a mournful tale.
- Depending on the circumstances, I was willing to go along.
- I went along the colonnade to the corner of the southern front of the house.
- In the best programs, 3-and 4-year-olds learn social skills, how to share and get along.
- Rashly volunteering to be a contestant, I went along the previous Saturday to practice.
- She said she does not get along well with her children and can not get them to clean.
- She wants to go along too.
- The countries in the region do not want Kosovo independence, and Washington appears to go along with that view.
- Why don't you ask Brenda and Belinda to come along to Friday meetings?
- He realized that she'd been right all along.
- I knew all along I wanted to live in the Santa Fe area.
- I spent over an hour looking for my keys, and they were in my purse all along.
- Grant arrived on the battlefield to find the Federals under heavy pressure all along their front.
- He has been polite to Paul all along.
- It was something he knew all along.
- It was then Gedanken realized that all along she had been hearing the voices of the beetles over a loudspeaker.
- That has been my position all along.
- The guns were all along the river bank as far as I could see.
- They probably thought I was crazy all along.
- We told Kelly all along what the doctors were saying.
- Corpses were carried along, standing upright.
- He wasn't, so he didn't go right down, but was carried along under water.
- I let myself be carried along by the crowd.
- She was carried along the railway line to the station from where an ambulance took her to Colchester General Hospital.
- Because when he was coming along he was always getting me to tell him the story about you.
- He put his knuckles on the wet tile, went into a three-point stance to test how the arm was coming along.
- I noticed that a horse was coming along the road, so I supposed the animals were afraid of him.
- Let Hilda know if you are coming along.
- Some one was coming along the corridor from the foyer.
- We have Billy Reagan, too, who is coming along nicely.
- Yes, somebody was coming along the passage - a man.
- Your deck should be coming along nicely now, with the structure in place.
- By all accounts, she and Uncle Walter got on famously.
- Dorothy and Amelia got on famously.
- The ticket woman and I had got on famously.
- They spoke with me and we got on famously.
- Democritus drew up a map along these lines.
- Different proposals along these lines have already been introduced by members of Congress from both parties.
- Frankly, I had nothing to share along those lines.
- I was getting a lot of work along these lines in the theater.
- In fact, I was thinking I might try and start something along those lines as soon as I can.
- It would be quite wrong to claim that it gave us orders along those lines.
- Opposition leaders are afraid to give Milosevic the pretext to use more brutality and proclaim martial law or something along those lines.
- The parties have made promises along these lines.
- In Moldavia there was a marked division of voting along ethnic lines.
- In the specific conditions of post-colonial underdevelopment it is not unusual to find conflict within the bourgeoisie working along ethnic lines.
- It comes as no surprise that the caricatures are extended along ethnic lines.
- On Capitol Hill, reactions to Bush's proposals fell predictably along party lines.
- The committee voted 21-16, along party lines, to empower Burton.
- The Council, said the author, should not be reported as if it was divided along party lines.
- The vote was 35 to 24, almost strictly along party lines.
- Somewhere along the line, we just stopped talking to each other.
- And somewhere along the line, the street became an idea.
- But somewhere along the line they stopped laughing when they compared their own results with what we were achieving.
- But somewhere along the line, downhill skiing was too much of a chore and an expense.
- Every accident may be regarded as the result of the action of a human being somewhere along the line.
- He and Wharton are related somewhere along the line.
- If he did, the probability is that his genetic inheritance played its part somewhere along the line.
- They accomplished great things in their time, but somewhere along the line they got away from us.
- You missed your forte somewhere along the line, Meg.
- I had nothing better to do, so I thought I'd go along for the ride.
- But do members just go along for the ride?
- His pride would never let Olajuwon simply go along for the ride.
- I was wondering if you fancied coming along for the ride.
- I went along for the ride.
- Lord knows where they're heading, but you really should go along for the ride.
- Or she probably chose me for him and he just went along for the ride.
- Other major players in the Las Vegas casino market came along for the ride.
- The dancers were flown to Washington, with Talley Beatty going along for the ride.
- Don't pull the thread right through at this stage.
- He came right through the War, just to be killed on that damned motorbike.
- He got so mad he threw the Bible out the bedroom window right through the glass.
- He had slept right through the night.
- His grey eyes stared back at me intensely, as if right through me.
- I love to hear this, but then you see guys slide right through the draft.
- Route 1 runs right through it.
- At one spot along the road, a lone flower escaped the flames that poured through the Three Bar Wildlife Area.
- How far down the road of cutbacks do bank management want to go?
- Lily shot a quick horrified look up and down the road.
- No car had come down the road for a while.
- There's a nice place down the road.
- Well, we want to let you know that a new church is opening just down the road from you.
- The customs officers run their eyes over us as if we weren't there.
- Lights were strung across the promenade; around the Casino.
I was driving along, thinking about Chris. a group of children walking along in a line2go/come along to go or come to a place where something is happening: You’re welcome to come along if you like. I think I’ll go along and watch the game.3take/bring somebody/something along to take someone or something with you to a place: Mandy brought some of her friends along. Why don’t you take your guitar along?4be/come along to arrive: Another bus should be along in a minute. Every so often, a band comes along that changes music history.5 come/go/get along to improve, develop, or make progress: After a five-hour operation, Wendy is coming along just fine.6along with somebody/something together with someone or something else: Dunne was murdered, along with three guards.7all along all the time from the beginning, while something was happening: They should have known all along that she was lying.along1 adverbalong2 preposition
alongalong2 ●●● S1 W1 preposition WORD ORIGINalong2
Origin:
Old English andlang, from and- ‘against’ + lang ‘long’EXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES
- The Martins' house is somewhere along this road.
- The Rif Mountains were visible as we sailed along the African coast.
- They put up a fence along the sidewalk.
- Troops were stationed all along the border.
- Walk along the canal as far as the bridge.
- We followed the path along the shore for several miles.
- We took a walk along the river.
- Wild strawberries grew along the trail.
Longman Language Activatornext to someone or something
· Roy had the seat next to the window.· I parked my car next to yours.· "Have you and Chris met?" "Yes, we were sitting next to each other at dinner."· "Where's the French dictionary?" "On the bottom shelf, next to the encyclopaedia."right next to (=next to and very close to) · I couldn't believe it. There was Tom Cruise, right next to me!· The hotel was right next to the airport.
next to or very close to something: · I saw him standing by the window.· Weymouth is a pretty little town by the sea.by the side of something (=next to a river, road, path etc): · Several soldiers were sitting on the grass by the side of the road.wait by the phone: · Relatives are anxiously waiting by the phone for more news about the plane crash.
next to or very close to someone or something: · Ella came and sat down beside me.· On the table beside the bed were several medicine bottles.· They were sitting beside the pool, eating breakfast.
next to another building, room etc or living in the next house: · "Is this Maria's office?" "No, hers is next door."· Have you met the people who've just moved in next door?next door to: · Why don't we meet at that little French bistro next door to the theater?live next door to somebody: · "How do you know Marsha?" "I used to live next door to her."
standing, sitting, or placed next to someone, especially when they are doing something: · I like to have a Thesaurus at my side whenever I do any writing.· Dirk went and stood by her side, his arm around her slender waist.
next to a road or path: · Richard left his motorcycle on the side of the road and started to walk.· Tests in April showed that police cars parked at the side of motorways reduce speeds by ten miles per hour on average.
in a line close to the side of a river, coast, border etc: · We followed the path along the shore for several miles.· Walk along the canal as far as the bridge.· The Rif Mountains were visible as we sailed along the African coast.all along (=from one end to another): · Troops were stationed all along the border.
if two people are walking, sitting or lying side by side , they are next to each other: · We walked along slowly, side by side.· Sabina and Mel sat side by side in the back seat.
next to or along the side of something: · The two boats were moored alongside each other in the harbor.· I decided to take the path alongside the railway track.· The driver was just getting out of his car when a police car pulled up alongside.
if people walk two/three/four etc abreast , that number of them walk at the same speed next to each other: · The sidewalk was wide enough for us to walk three abreast.
COLLOCATIONS FROM THE ENTRY There were cheering crowds all along Pennsylvania Avenue. The bathroom is just along (=a short distance along) the corridor.COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES The boats were drifting farther and farther apart. a resort town farther up the coast She ran her fingers through his hair. He was making the story up as he went along. I was groping my way blindly through the trees. We were both thinking along the same lines (=in the same way). In South Africa, the press developed along very different lines (=in a very different way). We usually start with general questions along the lines of, ‘How do you feel?’ They’re trying to organize a trip to the beach or something along those lines. The committee was split along party lines. The community remains divided along religious lines. I’ve given talks so many times that now I just make them up as I go along (=think of things to say as I am speaking). The garden’s coming along very nicely now (=it is growing well).
There were cheering crowds all along Pennsylvania Avenue. The bathroom is just along (=a short distance along) the corridor.· She loved to walk along the beach in the early morning.
· A muddy ditch ran along the side of the field.
The boats were drifting farther and farther apart. a resort town farther up the coast She ran her fingers through his hair. He was making the story up as he went along. I was groping my way blindly through the trees. We were both thinking along the same lines (=in the same way). In South Africa, the press developed along very different lines (=in a very different way). We usually start with general questions along the lines of, ‘How do you feel?’ They’re trying to organize a trip to the beach or something along those lines. The committee was split along party lines. The community remains divided along religious lines. I’ve given talks so many times that now I just make them up as I go along (=think of things to say as I am speaking).· He was driving along the motorway at a steady sixty miles an hour.
The garden’s coming along very nicely now (=it is growing well).· We had outgrown our house when the opportunity came up to buy one with more land.
PHRASES FROM THE ENTRYPHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES► come along!► I must/I’d better be getting along► go along with you!► get on/along like a house on fire► I’d better mosey along/be moseying along► move somebody ↔ along► play somebody along► must/should etc be pushing along► string somebody along
1from one place on something such as a line, road, or edge towards the other end of it: - Barns were sometimes built with integral aisles, along the lines of a church.
- But along the way Alice Thomas Ellis creates an ironic and vivid portrait of London, brilliantly catching its degradation and waste.
- He and Wharton are related somewhere along the line.
- Moving along the line in the figure shows that a rise in one variable is associated with a rise in the other.
- Somewhere along the line, Harriet felt, she had gone wrong with her daughter's upbringing.
- The changes that befall us along the way are just the various experiences that we encounter on our journey.
- There are quotidian bumps and creases and noteworthy spills all along the way that need attention.
- There had been other signals along the way.
- He realized that she'd been right all along.
- I knew all along I wanted to live in the Santa Fe area.
- I spent over an hour looking for my keys, and they were in my purse all along.
- Grant arrived on the battlefield to find the Federals under heavy pressure all along their front.
- He has been polite to Paul all along.
- It was something he knew all along.
- It was then Gedanken realized that all along she had been hearing the voices of the beetles over a loudspeaker.
- That has been my position all along.
- The guns were all along the river bank as far as I could see.
- They probably thought I was crazy all along.
- We told Kelly all along what the doctors were saying.
- Corpses were carried along, standing upright.
- He wasn't, so he didn't go right down, but was carried along under water.
- I let myself be carried along by the crowd.
- She was carried along the railway line to the station from where an ambulance took her to Colchester General Hospital.
- Because when he was coming along he was always getting me to tell him the story about you.
- He put his knuckles on the wet tile, went into a three-point stance to test how the arm was coming along.
- I noticed that a horse was coming along the road, so I supposed the animals were afraid of him.
- Let Hilda know if you are coming along.
- Some one was coming along the corridor from the foyer.
- We have Billy Reagan, too, who is coming along nicely.
- Yes, somebody was coming along the passage - a man.
- Your deck should be coming along nicely now, with the structure in place.
- By all accounts, she and Uncle Walter got on famously.
- Dorothy and Amelia got on famously.
- The ticket woman and I had got on famously.
- They spoke with me and we got on famously.
- Democritus drew up a map along these lines.
- Different proposals along these lines have already been introduced by members of Congress from both parties.
- Frankly, I had nothing to share along those lines.
- I was getting a lot of work along these lines in the theater.
- In fact, I was thinking I might try and start something along those lines as soon as I can.
- It would be quite wrong to claim that it gave us orders along those lines.
- Opposition leaders are afraid to give Milosevic the pretext to use more brutality and proclaim martial law or something along those lines.
- The parties have made promises along these lines.
- In Moldavia there was a marked division of voting along ethnic lines.
- In the specific conditions of post-colonial underdevelopment it is not unusual to find conflict within the bourgeoisie working along ethnic lines.
- It comes as no surprise that the caricatures are extended along ethnic lines.
- On Capitol Hill, reactions to Bush's proposals fell predictably along party lines.
- The committee voted 21-16, along party lines, to empower Burton.
- The Council, said the author, should not be reported as if it was divided along party lines.
- The vote was 35 to 24, almost strictly along party lines.
- Somewhere along the line, we just stopped talking to each other.
- And somewhere along the line, the street became an idea.
- But somewhere along the line they stopped laughing when they compared their own results with what we were achieving.
- But somewhere along the line, downhill skiing was too much of a chore and an expense.
- Every accident may be regarded as the result of the action of a human being somewhere along the line.
- He and Wharton are related somewhere along the line.
- If he did, the probability is that his genetic inheritance played its part somewhere along the line.
- They accomplished great things in their time, but somewhere along the line they got away from us.
- You missed your forte somewhere along the line, Meg.
- I had nothing better to do, so I thought I'd go along for the ride.
- But do members just go along for the ride?
- His pride would never let Olajuwon simply go along for the ride.
- I was wondering if you fancied coming along for the ride.
- I went along for the ride.
- Lord knows where they're heading, but you really should go along for the ride.
- Or she probably chose me for him and he just went along for the ride.
- Other major players in the Las Vegas casino market came along for the ride.
- The dancers were flown to Washington, with Talley Beatty going along for the ride.
- Don't pull the thread right through at this stage.
- He came right through the War, just to be killed on that damned motorbike.
- He got so mad he threw the Bible out the bedroom window right through the glass.
- He had slept right through the night.
- His grey eyes stared back at me intensely, as if right through me.
- I love to hear this, but then you see guys slide right through the draft.
- Route 1 runs right through it.
- At one spot along the road, a lone flower escaped the flames that poured through the Three Bar Wildlife Area.
- How far down the road of cutbacks do bank management want to go?
- Lily shot a quick horrified look up and down the road.
- No car had come down the road for a while.
- There's a nice place down the road.
- Well, we want to let you know that a new church is opening just down the road from you.
- The customs officers run their eyes over us as if we weren't there.
- Lights were strung across the promenade; around the Casino.
We were driving along Follyfoot Road. She glanced anxiously along the line of faces. He slid his hand along her arm.2forming a line beside something long: The palm trees along the shore swayed in the wind. the toolbar along the top of your screen There were cheering crowds all along Pennsylvania Avenue.3a particular distance away, on or beside something long such as a line, road, edge etc: Hugo’s house was about two hundred yards away along the main street. The bathroom is just along (=a short distance along) the corridor.4along the way/line during a process or experience, or during someone’s life: I’ve been lucky, but I’ve had my share of heartbreak along the way.