Example Sentences

Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.

Before they first appeared, parts of the Eastern Appalachians had paralleled our eastern sea coast for many million years.

From The Book of the National Parks by Yard, Robert Sterling

Douglas had wished for land for his country and had paralleled the course of the slavocracy to get it.

From Children of the Market Place by Masters, Edgar Lee

He had paralleled the Continental Railway in Geology; a feat as yet unequalled by other governments which had as a rule no continents to survey.

From The Education of Henry Adams by Adams, Henry

The removal of the Indians from Michigan, Indiana, and Illinois had paralleled the similar removal from the lower South.

From Expansion and Conflict by Dodd, William E.

All the way, almost from his threshold, these sinister steps had paralleled those of the hurrying child.

From Kings in Exile by Roberts, Charles George Douglas, Sir