How to Use along the line in a Sentence

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• Mark the cutline with a Sharpie pen and saw along the line with light strokes.
  — Roy Berendsohn, Popular Mechanics, 19 Jan. 2023
• And the pages that offered a shred of hope somewhere along the line.
  — Susan Tompor, Detroit Free Press, 29 June 2023
• Through six games, the Patriots have used 10 different starters along the line, the most in the NFL.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 22 Oct. 2021
• Somewhere along the line, the goodwill message has been lost or at least skewed.
  — Hannah Drown, cleveland, 26 Nov. 2021
• First, mark a hole on the top half of the pumpkin and carefully cut along the line with a pumpkin carving set.
  — Monique Valeris, Good Housekeeping, 5 Oct. 2022
• And yet somewhere along the line Sancho regressed again.
  — Graham Ruthven, Forbes, 11 Nov. 2022
• This team lacks the power and depth necessary along the line of scrimmage to be an elite defense.
  — Los Angeles Times, 23 Nov. 2021
• And then inevitability will kick in, along with the talent gap along the line of scrimmage.
  — Carlos Monarrez, Detroit Free Press, 2 Dec. 2022
• Blake has played every spot along the line, including tight end.
  — Ashley Bastock, cleveland, 18 Dec. 2021
• Corwin hopes that somewhere along the line, the show segues into something that is not linear TV.
  — Jazz Tangcay, Variety, 15 Mar. 2022
• Sharpe, a left tackle, will try to solidify a reserve spot along the line.
  — Brian Wacker, Baltimore Sun, 21 Aug. 2023
• Water also can enter the system through storm gutters at many points along the line, Ward said.
  — Laurinda Joenks, Arkansas Online, 19 Jan. 2023
• But, as usual at Utah, there is a belief that there is enough depth along the line that Ford and Olaseni leaving should merely be a hiccup.
  — Josh Newman, The Salt Lake Tribune, 6 Apr. 2022
• Cornish considered symmetry along the line formed by two points, with the sun and Earth on either side.
  — Manasee Wagh, Popular Mechanics, 29 Apr. 2022
• About 80 trains will be traveling daily along the line, which cuts travel time from Hong Kong to the mainland city of Guangzhou from two hours to just 47 minutes.
  — CNN, 12 Jan. 2023
• But most of them, somewhere along the line, are about a person who needed help, needed someone to see how their lives were falling apart.
  — Los Angeles Times, 17 Mar. 2022
• Quinn uses Parsons in different places along the line of scrimmage to keep them guessing.
  — Calvin Watkins, Dallas News, 15 Sep. 2023
• Since then, the agency and cities and towns along the line have been scrambling to inform perhaps hundreds of thousands of riders about the disruption.
  — Taylor Dolven, BostonGlobe.com, 12 Aug. 2022
• Mark a line from corner to corner, and cut along the line to create two identical triangles.
  — Jessica Bennett, Better Homes & Gardens, 8 Aug. 2023
• As of November 11, the IMO has issued a warning that an eruption is very likely to occur somewhere along the line.
  — Erik Klemetti, Discover Magazine, 11 Nov. 2023
• But somewhere along the line — Gutierrez can’t pinpoint where — everything fell apart.
  — Travis M. Andrews, Washington Post, 14 July 2023
• But playing in the SEC routinely requires quality depth along the line, and that's what the Razorbacks appear to have.
  — Erick Taylor, Arkansas Online, 30 July 2023
• While our friends and loved ones deserve gifts along the line of private yacht rentals and jewelry adorned with carats on carats of gold, our budgets tend to present restrictions.
  — Anamaria Glavan, Allure, 2 Dec. 2022
• The risk of such a cataclysm exists only when Earth is situated exactly along the line of the burst.
  — Peter Tuthill, Scientific American, 15 Aug. 2023
• Michigan's approach on defense and perceived strength along the line of scrimmage were negated by tempo.
  — Paul Myerberg, USA TODAY, 12 Jan. 2023
• In the short run-up to game day, Branch showed the team 15 plays — eight defense and seven offense — as an example of how dominant Cincinnati can be along the line of scrimmage on both sides of the ball.
  — Julian Benbow, BostonGlobe.com, 17 Dec. 2022
• At least half of the military vessels darted right along the line of separation itself.
  — Peter Aitken, Fox News, 8 Apr. 2023
• Replacing Wooden, with his versatility along the line, is no simple task, but that’s part of why Auburn hit the portal hard up front.
  — Tom Green | [e-mail], al, 27 Feb. 2023
• The distinct paths become one, and the denser stream ducks under, hiding its sedimentary past along the line of mixing, where eddies test the waters.
  — Marianne Karplus, Scientific American, 25 Apr. 2023
• Seeing that the Buckeyes were working in new starters along the line, some level of inconsistency had to be expected.
  — Andrew Gillis, cleveland, 3 Sep. 2023

Last Updated: 27 Jun 2024