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How to use abreast in a sentence

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We try to keep abreast of the new treatments, but have gained little practical experience of using them.
By keeping abreast of all cutting-edge innovations, we are forearmed to react quickly to our client's changing demands.
They often, too, ride two abreast, causing car drivers to swerve to the other side of the road to pass them.
During his abbacy, he kept the Buckfast community abreast of changes in the outside world.
Nothing would suit Nelson but this four-decked ship, so we crossed the hawse of about six of them, and were abreast of her.
They pull hard at the oars until the boat is abreast of the island, and then they ram the bow against its icy littoral.
They are walking eight abreast, so that they take up all of the narrow pavement and spill out for several yards into the road.
I strolled around the windward side and looked out at the twinkling lights abreast Rayong.
After the other escort aircraft landed, all aircraft taxied to the dais, parked line abreast, and carried out a formation shutdown.
He looked out his bubble window and saw a mixed gaggle of Fw 190s and Me 109s closing head-on in line abreast.
Marching in precision the Thunderbolts spread out line abreast, gun switches and guns sights on, propeller pitch increased for more power.
We set out along a series of paths just wide enough for two horses to walk abreast.
You can see them walking three abreast and you have to walk into the road to get past.
Gradually the two battleships gathered way and proceeded to head down the river abreast of each other.
North we walked, three abreast, a mile and a half along a dusty track that penetrates and bisects the moor.
The couple were both quite fat and were walking abreast and consequently blocked the whole path.
At 1100 ft on tow, I flew abreast of one of these monsters, so pinged off, and headed into it.
In the opening laps, however, cars were entering corners sometimes three abreast, exchanging positions with bewildering frequency.
It is virtually impossible to walk two abreast along the pavement and for wheelchairs and pushchairs it is a complete nightmare.
There are the people who walk three abreast and really slowly forcing you to lower your pace until you spot a chance to get around them.
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We were steaming in line abreast, and the order was signalled for each ship to take one drifter in tow.
Some of you cut a hole here in the deck on the port side, just abreast of that bollard.
The two friends entered The Hague, brisking up their pace and stepping gallantly abreast.
I was keeping abreast of the wagon, in my buckboard, away to the south of it.
Mr. Wain believes there is a great future for black and white work if a man is careful to keep abreast of the times.
Theres going to be a big airship carnival next month, boys, said Andy Rush, who seemed to keep abreast of aeronautic matters.
No doubt it was a drain on vitality to live abreast of such a man, to keep step with his robustious stride.
But when he came abreast of the cannery fishing-boats, he made no effort to head in.
Though he endeavoured to near them, he intended not to make any attack until the Defiance had got abreast of the headmost.
And three blocks after that, the police car was abreast of him, forcing him to the curb.
Here the voyagers were abreast of some of the grandest heights of the Cordilleras.
When we came abreast of the crevasse, we could see through it to the country beyond.
Lingard, standing to leeward abreast of the wheel, watched the islet first seen.
A cross wire in the microscope tells when it is accurately abreast of the line below it.
When we were abreast of the Thousand Islands, Mr. Bogardus and the pilot made another attempt to escape, and got fairly off.
Two men abreast could not beset him, since one must cumber the movements of the other.
And by that time we had gotten almost in under the underpass, and the President's car had come up and was almost abreast of us.
By degrees they let the boat drop back till her bow was abreast of the ladder.
As I got abreast of the main-mast, I saw some one had let run the halyards.
Not until the group had drawn abreast the ambushers did urb give the signal.
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