How to Use beside in a Sentence

beside

1 of 2 preposition

• The man beside her was wearing a brown suit and hat.
• Their house is beside a small lake.
• They were walking beside me.
• Stand beside the statue and I'll take your picture.
• She sat beside him during dinner.
• These problems seem unimportant beside the potential benefits of the new system.
• The good fishing starts at the head of the rapid that runs beside our camp.
  — Bryan Hendricks, Arkansas Online, 5 Nov. 2023
• Poor Things holds court beside Killers of the Flower Moon!
  — David Fear, Rolling Stone, 4 Mar. 2024
• His glazed eyes were still open as a grave was dug beside him.
  — Chantal Da Silva, NBC News, 22 Feb. 2024
• But for these fans, the facts are almost beside the point.
  — Joseph Bernstein, New York Times, 15 Oct. 2023
• My friend was seated beside me and had to have heard the remarks.
  — Jacobina Martin, Washington Post, 20 Sep. 2023
• Guests can then wind down with a drink beside the garden lap pool or in the Guinguette café.
  — Monica Mendal, Vogue, 5 Apr. 2024
• The deputy also spotted a rifle in the seat beside the man.
  — Carol Robinson | [e-mail], al, 28 June 2023
• In almost any field beside men’s sports, this might be met with a shrug.
  — Billy Witz, New York Times, 8 Mar. 2024
• Place a milk or water glass at one o'clock beside the plate.
  — Betsy Cribb Watson, Southern Living, 31 Jan. 2024
• Her son rises at 5:30 to read and play the violin beside her.
  — Imani Perry Janina Edwards Krish Seenivasan Devin Murphy, New York Times, 11 Apr. 2024
• It had been tucked away in a small box beside a cotton bedspread.
  — Amarachi Orie, CNN, 26 June 2023
• Fritz snuggled up beside his mom and opened his tiny mouth for pieces of lettuce.
  — The Enquirer, 5 Mar. 2024
• Traci walked through the lot beside her, jumpy, the cigarette still behind her ear.
  — Ariane Lange, Sacramento Bee, 2 Feb. 2024
• This mobile tower is intended to blend in with the rest of the main home when it is parked right beside it.
  — Kimberley Mok, Treehugger, 30 June 2023
• Witness Lynn Haggitt was on her way to work when a white van pulled up beside her at 5:30 a.m.
  — Jill Lawless and Brian Melley, Anchorage Daily News, 13 June 2023
• Airbrushed on the back was a white woman in a purple bikini with a tiger beside her.
  — Hazlitt, 14 June 2023
• Per the Augusta Chronicle, his hat was on the bar counter beside his glass of wine.
  — Christina Coulter, Fox News, 25 Dec. 2023
• When a third skier starts down the slope, huge slabs of snow break loose and begin sliding down the mountain beside him, the video shows.
  — Don Sweeney, Sacramento Bee, 20 Feb. 2024
• Serve them beside your favorite sandwich or eat them as a snack.
  — Jenna Sims, Southern Living, 4 Nov. 2023
• Savage Park backs up to the river, where trails wind beside the water.
  — Jillian Atelsek, Washington Post, 14 Feb. 2024
• By 6:07 when the signing period ends, Hoover’s out the back door, her husband beside her.
  — Lucy Feldman, Time, 10 July 2023
• Paul was awake, still fully dressed, reading in bed beside her.
  — Emma Cline, The New Yorker, 23 Oct. 2023
• At this stage of the game, the initial goal of Ribera del Duero’s regulations is beside the point.
  — Mike Desimone and Jeff Jenssen, Robb Report, 5 Aug. 2023
• Several nights later, the wife was again awakened by a low guttural muttering close beside her in the dark.
  — Joyce Carol Oates, The New Yorker, 15 Apr. 2024

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beside

2 of 2 adverb

• How about some green for the leaves of the plants and trees the queen is standing beside?
  — North Seattle College, The Seattle Times, 16 May 2017
• In the photos, Salazar can be seen posing beside and behind the wheel of a car.
  — Maria Pasquini, PEOPLE.com, 30 Sep. 2021
• Beside, Gun Runner still hasn’t beaten him on the track.
  — Jeff Nahill, sandiegouniontribune.com, 22 Aug. 2017
• Three sisters and a brother now sit beside and will grow up with him.
  — Georgia Slater, PEOPLE.com, 11 July 2020
• The library even has a fireplace to warm up beside in colder months.
  — Birmingham Magazine, AL.com, 5 Feb. 2018
• Related’s skyscrapers at the yard would rise beside and on top of that.
  — Michael Kimmelman, New York Times, 10 Jan. 2020
• Jen took notes in her work notebook, beside to-do lists and client requests.
  — Eric Boodman, STAT, 29 Sep. 2022
• He’s got a background in the SEC, in the area of recruiting also beside just being a brilliant mind in the game.
  — Nick Alvarez | [e-mail], al, 20 July 2023
• While there, close beside, the still unseeing fox Was only a hare’s-breath away.
  — Pat Myers, Washington Post, 18 Aug. 2022
• The Drawing room has a contemporary British feel about it, and beside is the Library, where a bar serves wines, beers, and cocktails.
  — Kevin Koenig, Robb Report, 2 Aug. 2022
• Trains and streamers snaked down runways behind (and sometimes beside) looks for day and evening.
  — Laird Borrelli-Persson, Vogue, 15 Mar. 2023
• Harbaugh said both players will see time beside Onwuasor as the Ravens adjust to a post-Mosley world.
  — Childs Walker, baltimoresun.com, 23 July 2019
• Ora arrived late and took the only open seat, beside Kieffer.
  — Nanette Asimov, SFChronicle.com, 8 June 2020
• As a way to shame her into losing weight for a role, she was forced to stand beside much thinner women, then photographed.
  — The Washington Post, cleveland.com, 17 Oct. 2017
• Makes one 9-inch cake Spoon berries and softly whipped cream beside slices of this simple lemon-cornmeal cake glazed with sugar syrup.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 11 May 2021
• Less of a wilderness experience because a road is beside much of it.
  — Brian E. Clark, Los Angeles Times, 8 May 2020
• The second frame showed Marsden holding William on his lap while Mary and Jack snuggled beside and behind him.
  — Francesca Gariano, Peoplemag, 4 Aug. 2023
• Live roaches are on floor beside and behind cooler under racks stored on floor.
  — David J. Neal, miamiherald, 7 June 2018
• This one allows fish to swim under onlookers as well as beside and over them, increasing the feeling that one is in the middle of the motion.
  — al, 3 Sep. 2020
• There are even tiny white slippers tucked beside with it, sweetly and almost discreetly.
  — Jill Gleeson, Good Housekeeping, 5 Oct. 2018
• Krystyna Krakowski became a firefighter in Florida at a time when there were very few women to work beside or guide her in the service.
  — Anila Yoganathan, orlandosentinel.com, 11 Apr. 2021
• Both Fauci and Birx were often standing beside or behind Trump when the former president made spurious claims about the virus.
  — Jacqueline Howard, CNN, 29 Mar. 2021
• The whole show is rendered in supertitles that flash above, and sometimes beside, the actors, spelling out everything in both languages.
  — Christopher Arnott, Hartford Courant, 25 Jan. 2023
• His bunk sits beside grimy toilets and a single sink shared by two dozen residents, including a few single women.
  — Washington Post, 9 May 2017
• During spring and summer, place the plants beside — not directly in front of — a north- or east-facing window, which provides less exposure than one facing south or west.
  — Jessica Damiano, San Diego Union-Tribune, 20 Jan. 2024
• Sugar poured into pyramids with the shredded sachet beside.
  — Hazlitt, 30 Aug. 2023
• Someone who is lacking the missing metric is someone who is driven and intelligent but still not a person who others want to work beside or for.
  — Pam Boney, Forbes, 28 Oct. 2021
• Lucky travelers will be able to unwind beside two swimming pools, dine on seasonal fare across two restaurants, and sip on masterful cocktails in a speakeasy bar.
  — Connor Sturges, Condé Nast Traveler, 12 Jan. 2023
• However, the plan also only succeeded to prompt the terrified wild kitten to scamper to next car parked right beside, which happened to belong to my nephew-in-law’s mother.
  — Philip Potempa, Chicago Tribune, 15 Sep. 2023
• Because methyl groups are attached to the genes, residing beside but separate from the double-helix DNA code, the field was dubbed epigenetics, from the prefix epi (Greek for over, outer, above).
  — Dan Hurley, Discover Magazine, 25 June 2015

Last Updated: 5 Sep 2024