Example Sentences

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The signs protest San Juan County’s plans, announced last winter, to build a 10-foot-wide, 3-mile-long paved trail that will parallel the narrow road.

From Seattle Times • Aug. 9, 2023

Some of them are clearly hoping that developments in medical science will parallel those in computer science.

From Salon • Mar. 15, 2020

The mix of students living in the residence hall in 2018-19 will parallel the first-year’s demographics.

From Washington Times • May 7, 2018

Twist on original: Reports suggest a “unique family story” will parallel the cute big-eared elephant’s journey from laughing stock to soaring spectacle of the circus ring.

From The Guardian • Jul. 23, 2015

The upward steps of the human race under my rule will parallel, will surpass the advance from the brutish caveman to intellectual genius.

From Astounding Stories of Super-Science, August 1930 by Bates, Harry