adverb
definition
In company; together.
example
John played the piano and everyone sang along.
definition
Onward, forward, with progressive action.
example
Don't stop here. Just move along.
preposition
definition
By the length of; in a line with the length of; lengthwise next to.
definition
In a line with, with a progressive motion on; onward on; forward on.
Examples of along in a Sentence
Take him along just in case.
There is a lovely beach that stretches miles along the blue Atlantic.
You two seem to get along well together.
Each success has some failure along the way.
Katie piled the potatoes in another pan and picked it up, along with the knife and a bag of peals.
He pulled out the engagement ring, along with a wad of lint.
I went along with it.
All along the road the farmers were waiting for them.
I will look after your interests, said she in reply to his look, and went still faster along the passage.
Are the weeds getting a little high along the drive?
She surrendered the canteens to him along with a scathing stare.
One early thrush gave me a note or two as I drove along the woodland path.
The chances were slim that anyone would have come along the road to help her.
Today she would have to eat crow along with the dust.
If we respected only what is inevitable and has a right to be, music and poetry would resound along the streets.
Rostov and Ilyin gave rein to their horses for a last race along the incline before reaching Bogucharovo, and Rostov, outstripping Ilyin, was the first to gallop into the village street.
First along the dusty road came the infantry in ranks, bareheaded and with arms reversed.
All human sciences have traveled along that path.
He didn't want to go and he had made no effort to get along with his father.
The school was more than a mile from their home, and the children trotted along as fast as their short legs could carry them.
Anna Mikhaylovna, addressing a maid who was hurrying past with a decanter on a tray as "my dear" and "my sweet," asked about the princess' health and then led Pierre along a stone passage.
Without a word, she dashed back to her room and crammed a change of clothes in a bag, along with her books.
So can I. I got along before I hired you and I think I can manage one meal now.
One day in spring four men were riding on horseback along a country road.
When she is walking up or down the hall or along the veranda, her hands go flying along beside her like a confusion of birds' wings.
Indeed, I feel as if I had never seen anything until now, Helen finds so much to ask about along the way.
He managed without a housekeeper before she came, and he could get along fine now.
I started to move along the sidewalk and an old man stepped out of a doorway and passed right through me!
Do you want me to come along?
So she ran along over their heads until she had left them far behind and below and had come to the city and the House of the Sorcerer.
And worse yet, Cade had thought she was going along with his skit.
A couple of vacationers picked her up walking along the beach near La Jolla.
As for us, Count, we get along on our pay.
Following Señor Medena up the stairs, she ran her hand along the smooth wood, enjoying the cool silky soft feel of it.
As the merchant was walking along, he came to a river that flowed gently between green and shady banks.
We went in a sail-boat along with many others to watch the races.
Quinn swims every morning and takes along a cake of soap because he's lazy.
Alexander moved along close under the hills.
When I see that she is eager to tell me something, but is hampered because she does not know the words, I supply them and the necessary idioms, and we get along finely.
As I walk along the stony shore of the pond in my shirt-sleeves, though it is cool as well as cloudy and windy, and I see nothing special to attract me, all the elements are unusually congenial to me.
So in the present and future, when a technology comes along that represents such a change—that saves details of our activities with which to advise us later, or has us speaking to machines as if they were creatures—it will simply be more of the same.
Randolph was the smallest of them, so she'd picked this town to cross the River rather than the larger ones south along the Mississippi.
We are all that's holding the world together along the river.
Oh, you were stringing me along.
Even the muscles along his back were roped, defined.
Until he got what he wanted, he'd be sure to string her along.
Along the warm temperate zone, from the Mediterranean to the Himalaya, extends a flora essentially European in character.
It grew so dark that the people could not see their way along the streets.
Day after day she moved her pencil in the same tracks along the grooved paper, never for a moment expressing the least impatience or sense of fatigue.
Nay, I was frequently notified of the passage of a traveller along the highway sixty rods off by the scent of his pipe.