How do you use Beside in a sentence? See 10+ example sentences showing how this word appears in different contexts, plus the exact meaning.
Beside meaning
- Next to; at the side of.
- Not relevant to.
- Besides; in addition to.
Using Beside
- The main meaning on this page is: Next to; at the side of. | Not relevant to. | Besides; in addition to.
- In the example corpus, beside often appears in combinations such as: beside the, beside her, beside him.
Context around Beside
- Average sentence length in these examples: 23.4 words
- Position in the sentence: 10 start, 4 middle, 6 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Beside
- In this selection, "beside" usually appears near the start of the sentence. The average example has 23.4 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, people, helgi, ash, photographers, yudi and rockcastle stand out and add context to how "beside" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include a 1 beside their most and a 2 beside their second. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "beside" sits close to words such as banner, homelessness and locate, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with beside
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
A firearm was found beside the body. (7 words)
Beside his coffin lay a sinisterly decorated sledgehammer presented by the Wagner private army. (14 words)
Beside the bus lane that allows exprss buses to move at 80kph to Woden. (14 words)
In stanza 38, Helgi's glory there is described: :So was Helgi beside the chieftains :like the bright-growing ash beside the thorn-bush :and the young stag, drenched in dew, :who surpasses all other animals :and whose horns glow against the sky itself. (44 words)
A woman whose children in Miami just dedicated a Hatzalah ambulance for her 80 birthday, a woman revered throughout South Florida for her hospitality and legendary for her kind-to-all personality, being buried beside her parents in freezing cold New York. (42 words)
An assistant sits beside her, and Field often answers questions I didn’t ask, or talks at length about the ins and outs of real estate in New York for no real reason in particular. (35 words)
Example sentences (20)
Troops ran up beside photographers and reporters to beat people beside us, then looked for the next victim and moved on while the cameras clicked.
In stanza 38, Helgi's glory there is described: :So was Helgi beside the chieftains :like the bright-growing ash beside the thorn-bush :and the young stag, drenched in dew, :who surpasses all other animals :and whose horns glow against the sky itself.
In the most common ballot design, they place a '1' beside their most preferred candidate, a '2' beside their second most preferred, and so on.
Acting Sgt. Anthony Thompson stands beside the Calgary Police Service community engagement vehicle outside a grocery store, talking with members of the public on Dec. 13, 2023.
A firearm was found beside the body.
After a heated chase, Erin manages to lose her tail but ends up falling unconscious beside a roadside bush.
After her performance, she got a chance to act in Bom Dia and Companhia beside Yudi Tamashiro.
After you get to the Barren Swamp Bridge you might have noticed a gate with an NPC named Rookie Explorer Hugo standing beside it.
Aged 49 years, passed away peacefully at Furness General Hospital on Monday March 13 2023 with his loving family beside him.
An assistant sits beside her, and Field often answers questions I didn’t ask, or talks at length about the ins and outs of real estate in New York for no real reason in particular.
An elder who has a shop beside the filling station, Mr Asabari Elelubo, said the loud noise he heard when the fire started sent shivers down his spine.
An information board beside the pub will give you an idea of what there is to see.
A resident explains, "Recently, a muntjac has been sleeping in the shade of a tree beside my house.
As an example, Hatfield shared a photo of a well found beside Rockcastle County High School that isn’t on the state’s map.
A woman whose children in Miami just dedicated a Hatzalah ambulance for her 80 birthday, a woman revered throughout South Florida for her hospitality and legendary for her kind-to-all personality, being buried beside her parents in freezing cold New York.
Beside his coffin lay a sinisterly decorated sledgehammer presented by the Wagner private army.
Beside me, Ducky sat patiently ready to pounce at the right moment as he waited for a vehicle, believed to be involved in drug supplying, to pass by.
Beside that transitory countenance I saw, scrawled into the frost on the surface of the ice, the word 'Deborah'.
Beside the bakery and ice cream shop, they grow a wide variety of apples, plums, cherries, apricots, and peaches.
Beside the bus lane that allows exprss buses to move at 80kph to Woden.
Common combinations with beside
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- beside the 68×
- beside her 22×
- beside him 9×
- standing beside 7×
- beside it 7×
- beside his 7×
- beside them 7×
- was beside 7×
- sitting beside 7×
- beside me 6×