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Example sentences for "beside the"

  • Would not that end in 'Mine be a cot, beside the rill'?

  • Flora, starting up from her low seat, beside the cradle.

  • Then Uzziah was angry; and he had a censer in his hand to burn incense; and while he was angry with the priests, the leprosy broke forth in his forehead before the priests in the house of Yahweh, beside the altar of incense.

  • Aren't they beyond the Jordan, behind the way of the going down of the sun, in the land of the Canaanites who dwell in the Arabah, over against Gilgal, beside the oaks of Moreh?

  • David commanded his young men, and they killed them, and cut off their hands and their feet, and hanged them up beside the pool in Hebron.

  • He, beside the window, was hunting among the chairs and lounges crowded in this corner of the little sitting-room.

  • But she had a secret object--to regain possession of the paper spiral that lay there neglected, its pin sticking up beside the lamp-stand.

  • She stood opposite me, beside the window, from which she had not moved since entering the room.

  • As for him, he sank back into the great chair beside the Governor's, leaned an elbow on the table, and hid his eyes with one shaking hand.

  • It's beside the question, Ralph Percy, but I dare say you can guess what I would have done.

  • Nay, I think you are fond of me, but that is beside the mark; it was not Jack Bulmer who was to marry your daughter, but the Duke of Ormskirk.

  • To the rear of the room was a boy in pink-and-silver, beside the writing-desk he had just got into with the co-operation of a poker.

  • Beside the land of Chaldea is the land of Amazonia, that is the land of Feminye.

  • Beside the isle of Pentexoire, that is the land of Prester John, is a eat isle, long and broad, that men clepe Mistorak; and it is in the lordship of Prester John.

  • Also within the church, at the right side, beside the choir of the church, is the mount of Calvary, where our Lord was put on the cross; and it is a rock of white colour and a little medled with red.

  • In the same church, beside the altar, were all the apostles on Whitsunday, when the Holy Ghost descended on them in likeness of fire.

  • And there also is a stone in the wall, beside the gate, of the pillar that our Lord was scourged at.

  • Hilary was seated, as usual, beside the marble-topped table, which was covered with newspapers and memoranda.

  • Beside the office-holders and their friends who were in town, there were many residents of the capital city in the habit of going to hear the livelier debates.

  • Sarpedon last, and valiant Glaucus led The Lycian bands, from distant Lycia's shore, Beside the banks of Xanthus' eddying stream.

  • Every wrong thing that any man does is beside the mark, at which he, by virtue of his manhood, and his very make and nature, ought to aim.

  • It is beside the mark in another sense than that.

  • For half a mile the road lay through a lovely solitude of shade and tangled bowery thickets, beside the stream.

  • He was standing alone, beside the paling.

  • As the last speaker moved away, Gilbert saw a led horse plunging through the water, beside the other.

  • Once, beside the foot of the cross which stood in Sancreed [Footnote: This fine sculptured cross has since these events been placed within the said churchyard, at the desire of Mr. A.

  • Beside the barrel is a large caldron lined with copper, with a rim of brass.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "beside the" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.


    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    benefit from; beside her; beside him; beside himself; beside the; besides many; besides other; besides some; besides the; besides their; besides which; blinding flash; double star; gave myself; general massacre; good plan; his wife; intense bombardment; like kind; necessary implication; plaster cast; rotary motion; stamens usually; that name; wild confusion; would seem