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Example sentences for "went along"

  • The Nautilus easily avoided the Money breakers to port and the Victoria reefs to starboard, positioned at longitude 130 degrees on the tenth parallel, which we went along rigorously.

  • We went along a steep, narrow path that ran over the cliff's summit.

  • For an hour we went along it in this fashion, staying only a few meters away.

  • It went along the 50th meridian with considerable speed.

  • The Barrier here runs east and west, and with a south-easterly wind we went along it to the east.

  • As we went along, houses began to appear here and there, set back from the road among the trees.

  • He was snapping and snarling and biting at his chain as he went along, though Mr. Wood led him very kindly, and when he saw me he acted as if he could have torn me to pieces.

  • This Bob was a happy, merry-looking dog, and as we went along, he told me of the fine time we should have next day.

  • Then, many were the kinds of acacias we noticed as we went along.

  • I met other tribes of Bororos as I went along, and I was able to add to the curious information already collected and given in previous chapters.

  • As we went along we obtained an imposing view to the north of an immense plateau in three terraces, the lower one appearing like the sea--it was so blue--with the brilliant red upper portion rising out of it like a great island.

  • The kick itself was a remarkable kick and perfect in every way, but when the wind caught it it became a wonder and it went along like a balloon.

  • All I needed was to get warmed up good and I went along in great shape.

  • I can see him now with his India ink pencil sketching as we went along, and I must laugh now at the nerve I had to joke him about his efforts.

  • His delight in a form of skill which has always been as magical to me as it seemed to him, was charmingly boyish, and Colin turned over his sketch-book, and showed him the notes he had made as we went along.

  • But, poor as they were, they had their telephone,--a fact that struck us paradoxically in many a poor cabin as we went along.

  • It was a beautiful morning of veiled sunshine, so warm that some hardy crickets chirped faintly as we went along.

  • There were days long to be remembered when the Master of Clopton Place read aloud to the children, translating as he went along, and smacking his lips over the choice of words as though he were tasting a fine quality of wine.

  • He was summoned to the bedside of one of his friends in the country, and, as he went along, he carried your father with him.

  • Reaching the trench allotted to us, we went along it in single file, up to our knees in water.

  • A few passing remarks on the conditions of the road as we went along to Hill 63 will be interesting.

  • Finishing this particular picture, we went along to the old German trenches, and during the whole time we bent nearly double, to keep under the line of the old parapets.

  • He smoked his pipe as we went along, and sometimes stopped to clap me on the shoulder.

  • By degrees, Wemmick got dryer and harder as we went along, and his mouth tightened into a post-office again.

  • I observed him, critically, as he went along, and could discover nothing of uneasiness, in his demeanor, to indicate that he felt the nearness of any of the creatures.

  • Pepper, as soon as I walked away, left the door, and ran ahead, still nosing and sniffing as he went along.

  • As we went along, in a silence full of gloomy remorse, we met the postman.

  • And as we went along we agreed that we would salute him on the word three.

  • But we went along down, because Oswald wanted to get some cobbler's wax in Falding village for a bird-net he was making.

  • As we went along my husband was told that an old woman (whom we never saw) had come and said that the men of Al Madi would not let us pass, and that we must write to the sultan of Sheher to send us two hundred soldiers.

  • It amused us to chew this as we went along: it is slightly bitter, but cleans the teeth most effectually.

  • So as we went along we pondered on this question, and wondered if this celebrated harbour was, after all, a myth.

  • As he went along, he not only sobbed and wept, but every now and then bellowed aloud.

  • I thought perhaps I should muster courage to open my heart to my father as we went along.

  • I lifted it up, and we started in procession for the Cove, Aleck acting train-bearer to the long tail, and winding it up as he went along; and Groves and Ralph carrying the hamper.

  • The sun was now high, and I could easily see that I was following out the direction Halkett gave me, and which I continued to repeat over and over to myself as I went along.

  • This he kept repeating continually as we went along, till I found myself muttering the words after him mechanically,--without attaching the slightest meaning to them.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "went along" 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:
    farm near; four acres; had made; innocent person; love mercy; often happens; said afterwards; said county; went aboard; went ahead; went below; went directly; went down; went downstairs; went every; went first; went immediately; went into; went myself; went north; went off; went over; went right; went slowly; went straight; went towards