beside
[bɪˈsaɪd]
Definition:
1. Next to or at the side of something.
2. Compared with.
'beside' example sentence:
- A black Mercedes screeched to a halt beside the helicopter.
- Bessie, resplendent in royal blue velvet, was hovering beside the table.
- The room was empty apart from one man seated beside the fire.
- Sit here beside me.
- I went and stood beside him, looking over his shoulder.
- He went and sat beside her.
- The mirror clouded beside her cheek.
- Her own problems paled into insignificance beside this terrible news.
- She chose a bench beside the duck pond and sat down.
- Teacher: Write 5 and beside it another 5!
- The horse reared, throwing its rider and knocking down a youth standing beside it.
- She skipped happily along beside me.
- She slipped her hand into his and fell into step beside him.
- She rests beside her husband in the local cemetery.
- Eva pulled over a chair and sat beside her husband.
- He knelt beside her and caught her hand in both of his.
- I moved from behind my desk to sit beside her.
- On the table beside an empty plate was a pile of books.
- Mary walked beside the chair.
- Rob had latched onto me. He followed me around and sat beside me at lunch.
- The village lies beside a main road, making it an easy target for bandits.
- You have to line the car up with the ones beside you.
- Beside the entrance to the church, turn right.
- He was beside himself with rage when I told him what I had done.
- He is sitting beside her on the sofa.
- She was a diminutive figure beside her husband.
- Dummy patrol cars will be set up beside motorways to frighten speeding motorists.
- Mary sat beside Elaine, who today seemed excitable.
- Brian didn't like it, but that was beside the point.
- The room was empty aside from one man seated beside the fire.
- There is an area of scrub and woodland beside the railway line.
- He ended up hunkering down beside her.
- George was laid to rest beside his parents.
- He caught her up and fell into step beside her.
- He sat beside her all night.
- He hunkered down beside her.
- He crouched down beside her.
- She kneeled down beside him.
- He reached into the cardboard box beside him.
- Yes, I know it was an accident, but that's beside the point.
- These words are carved on the stone beside his grave.
- We had a picnic beside the river.
- I found a place to park beside a station wagon.
- A brass plate beside the door said 'Dr Alan Tate'.
- A large stone landed right beside him.
- The mutilated bodies of seven men have been found beside a railway line.
- The road ran beside a railway.
- An assistant sat typing away at a table beside him.
- The dog loped along beside her.
- He felt something move beside him.