besides
[bɪˈsaɪdz]
Definition:
1. Making an additional point; anyway.
2. In addition; also.
3. Used for making an extra comment that adds to what you have just said.
Use 'besides' in a sentence:
- 1. What other sports do you play besides hockey?
- 2. This is my best suit; I have two other besides.
- 3. The house was too expensive and too big. Besides, I'd grown fond of our little rented house.
- 4. We need to promote our image besides it's not a real antique.
- 5. What else people can do to stay healthy besides sports?
- 6. Besides studying, students also have to do jobs on the ship.
- 7. It's too late to go and see him now; besides, I don't know the way.
- 8. Besides, businesses seek to appeal to customers.
- 9. I don't care for anything besides that.
- 10. He seemed to have no desire to go there; besides, his clothes were not good enough.
- 11. You get to sample lots of baked things and take home masses of cookies besides.
- 12. He gave me a book, a pen and some money besides.
- 13. The house was out of our price range and too big anyway. Besides, I'd grown fond of our little rented house.
- 14. Besides, this place is especially popular with the overseas students.
- 15. Besides table tennis, she goes in for swimming and skating.
- 16. I have a lot of work to do. Besides, I don't really like parties.
- 17. I think she has many good qualities besides being very beautiful.
- 18. In his rucksack he carried, besides pencils and notebooks, poetry.
- 19. Besides myself, the only English people there were Keith and Doreen.
- 20. Besides, empathy can be a cure for loneliness and sadness.
- 21. Besides the two novels, I have bought two atlases.
- 22. I have five other books besides this.
- 23. There was only one person besides Ford who knew Julia Jameson.
- 24. Besides, there are smokers who accidentally set fires.
- 25. Besides, where else would he learn to play mahjong?
- 26. Besides, the Emily Post Institute doesn't dictate manners.
- 27. The area has stunning scenery, beautiful beaches, and much more besides.
- 28. He doesn't know anything about the matter; besides, he doesn't want to get involved.
- 29. It's too late to go to the basketball match now; besides it's beginning to rain.
- 30. Besides English, he has to study German.
- 31. I've got no family besides my parents.
- 32. There are other visitors besides me.
- 33. People choose jobs for other reasons besides money.
- 34. What else have you been doing in Thailand besides enjoying the sun?
- 35. Besides, he has no proof that the allegations are true; Washington is full of scuttlebutt.
- 36. I don't like that new dictionary, besides, it's too expensive.
- 37. I want nothing besides this.
- 38. Besides English, he has to study German and French.
- 39. Besides rice, we grow cotton and wheat.
- 40. I don't really want to go. Besides, it's too late now.
- 41. Because, besides its foreign flavour, it has some smell of native soil.
- 42. Besides, they make the school lively and colorful.
- 43. Besides knowing some greek, she was fluent in italian.
- 44. Besides film and record projects, I have continued to work in the theater.
- 45. It's too late to go to the cinema now; besides , it's beginning to rain.
- 46. Besides selecting technological ventures for investment, the firms provide management, marketing and networking advice to the investee companies.
- 47. What other sports do you like besides football?
- 48. Besides diets, he devised punishing exercise routines.
- 49. Besides the acting being true to life, the singing was splendid.
- 50. It's too late to go to the football match now; besides, it's beginning to rain.
- 51. There were nine pounds left, besides some pennies.
- 52. What else can the new umbrella tell you besides the weather?
- 53. Besides, I learn from it that money is not everything.
- 54. The task is arduous; besides , there's not much time.
- 55. There are two others besides me who know some japanese.
- 56. Besides, French food is world-famous.
- 57. I need the money. And besides, when I agree to do something, I do it.
- 58. It gives out other things besides bears.
- 59. We have no other dictionaries besides these.
- 60. Besides working as a doctor, he also writes novels in his spare time.
- 61. Besides , rapid progress was made in the divestiture of radio paging assets from the P & T sectors and the restructuring on a nationwide basis.
- 62. We have lots of things in common besides music.
- 63. Besides buildings and roads, cities may be made from rubbish.
- 64. He has three other hats besides this.
- 65. I don't want to go; besides, I'm too tired.
- 66. The task is arduous; besides, there's not much time.
- 67. Besides that, I think our life should get into a simplification.
