How to Use move ahead/along in a Sentence

move ahead/along

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  • The judge prompted Chaudhry to move along in her line of inquiry.
    Cheyenne Roundtree, Rolling Stone, 7 Dec. 2023
  • Morenz scores the 247th goal of his career to move ahead of Cy Denneny.
    Houston Mitchell, Los Angeles Times, 14 Dec. 2023
  • The Hogs were flagged for a false start and had to settle for Cam Little's 23-yard field goal to move ahead 3-0.
    Tom Murphy, Arkansas Online, 24 Sep. 2023
  • But Johnson's team quickly said the plan had not changed and that the House would move ahead with its vote Thursday.
    Kaia Hubbard, CBS News, 18 Jan. 2024
  • Johnston is tracking to move ahead of Josh Palmer for the team’s No. 3 wide receiver on the depth chart.
    Usa Today Network, USA TODAY, 10 Aug. 2023
  • The motion wasn’t endorsed by anyone else on the council in order to move ahead for a vote.
    Dallas News, 8 Feb. 2023
  • The vote Thursday night to move ahead comes a week after a similar vote failed.
    Nicole Asbury, Washington Post, 30 Sep. 2023
  • After the Yom Kippur War, the government made the decision to move ahead with the peace process with Egypt.
    Isaac Chotiner, The New Yorker, 8 Dec. 2023
  • And his team has been clear about the fact that Trump is ready to move ahead without the blessing of the business community.
    Jonathan Mahler Edoardo Ballerini Emma Kehlbeck Joel Thibodeau, New York Times, 7 Apr. 2024
  • The commission will vote Oct. 19 on whether to move ahead with the rule making and start taking public comments.
    Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 12 Oct. 2023
  • But the officials said that the current temporary truce was building the sort of trust needed to move ahead.
    WSJ, 28 Nov. 2023
  • And the more complex shapes, like coffee mugs, move along a physics path that leads all the way to beautiful sounds that aren’t really there.
    Helen Czerski, WSJ, 8 Apr. 2021
  • Any thoughts on how to move ahead peacefully and also solvent?
    Amy Dickinson, Detroit Free Press, 31 Mar. 2023
  • Senate Republicans are poised to move ahead with whomever Trump picks for the high court.
    Mike Brest, Washington Examiner, 24 Sep. 2020
  • And consider all the licensing that requires tests to move ahead.
    Reader Commentary, Baltimore Sun, 16 May 2024
  • If your kitchen is especially warm, this process will move along more swiftly, so keep an eye out.
    Abra Berens, Bon Appétit, 24 July 2023
  • Pampa got the rodents to move along — or at least to poop in places less visible to the inspector — by the next day’s re-inspection.
    David J. Neal, Miami Herald, 23 Feb. 2024
  • But Donald Trump, running once again to challenge Biden, is prodding them to move ahead quickly.
    Stephen Groves, Anchorage Daily News, 5 Sep. 2023
  • Alex Cejka made an early move, opening eagle-birdie to move ahead of Alker on the front nine.
    John Marshall, ajc, 13 Nov. 2022
  • Put another way, sometimes the queen needs to move along in order for nature and beauty to flourish.
    David John Chávez, The Mercury News, 13 Mar. 2024
  • The cells would continuously move along the line sort of like a highway but without traffic.
    Roberto Baldwin, Car and Driver, 22 Sep. 2020
  • Virgo August 23-September 22 Your efforts to plan a trip can move ahead at present.
    Tarot Astrologers, Chicago Tribune, 14 May 2023
  • The 27 leaders also committed to move ahead with their own big stimulus plans for the sector.
    Raf Casert, Fortune, 16 Dec. 2022
  • Police Chief Michael Kerle said in March 2022 that the department would move ahead with the policy as drafted.
    Tess Williams, Anchorage Daily News, 25 May 2023
  • And then those samples move along at the local velocity.
    Quanta Magazine, 29 Feb. 2024
  • Robertson, in his 14th big-league season, has been on the move ahead of the trade deadline once before and has seen plenty of teammates come and go during this month throughout the years.
    Meghan Montemurro, Chicago Tribune, 2 July 2022
  • Your former office, the Southern District of New York, also chose at the federal level not to move ahead with it.
    CBS News, 2 Apr. 2023
  • These work by irritating the intestines, which increases contractions in the colon to force stool to move along.
    Alyssa Hui, Verywell Health, 2 Oct. 2023
  • Engoron did not rule on the request, but indicated the trial would move ahead as scheduled.
    TIME, 13 Nov. 2023
  • After deciding to move ahead, ∄’s team members opted to cap the first installment of Dance.
    Caleb Larson, Billboard, 26 Oct. 2022

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