Fearing lest Jassim--if indeed it was Jassim--should try to force his way on board, I gave very stringent orders that no native boat should be allowed to come alongside and no one allowed on board without my permission.
They Arabs have a nasty trick of waiting for you to come alongside, and then lowering the sail so that it and its big yard drops into the boat and smothers it.
At first they were afraid to come alongside of us, but after a little talk we got near them, exchanged presents, and were soon friends.
We had some difficulty in getting a canoe to come alongside, and it was not until we had fastened a piece of red cloth to a stick and floated it astern, that the first canoe would come near.
He yelled to me to come alongside, and then he yelled for me to go back to the Sally, cut her cable, and clear out of it.
I waited at the rendezvous till the morning of the 4th May, and then sighted the Sally, and ordered her to come alongside.
Showing a light, we hailed the Frenchmen's boat, and told them to come alongside again.
At two o'clock it toned down to a misty drizzle, and we called to Alan to come alongside, as Hannah, two of his natives and myself would give him a spell.
A quick glance showed him that none of the crew were missing--they were all holding on to the swamped boat and 'swimming' her out away from the reef, and shouting loudly for him to come alongside.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "come alongside" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
