Besides is an English word with synonyms like too or also. Below you'll find 10+ example sentences showing how it's used in practice.
Besides meaning
- In addition to.
- Other than; except for; instead of.
- Beside, next to.
Using Besides
- The main meaning on this page is: In addition to. | Other than; except for; instead of. | Beside, next to.
- Useful related words include: in any case, too, also, likewise.
- In the example corpus, besides often appears in combinations such as: besides the, besides that, besides his.
Context around Besides
- Average sentence length in these examples: 25.4 words
- Position in the sentence: 10 start, 7 middle, 3 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Besides
- In this selection, "besides" usually appears near the start of the sentence. The average example has 25.4 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, everyone, club, debts, stan, mike and affecting stand out and add context to how "besides" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include a polyglot besides three indian, additionally besides saba buying, besides adding and besides having. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "besides" sits close to words such as element, gaming and mining, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with besides
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Addicts still died on the streets every year in places besides Portland. (12 words)
Arjun lost to Carlsen and Levon Aronian, besides behind held four times. (12 words)
Besides which, there is also no evidence for this besides what you have invented. (14 words)
As with all musicians across the world, when the Pandemic shut down society, he had to put his guitars back in their cases, but now besides his local band he now also plays from time to time with an Ottawa-based band called Snake River line. (46 words)
A spokesperson for Yaroslavsky’s office last week said the Cotner site was not off the table, and that Yaroslavsky was already considering other locations within Council District 5 besides Midvale Avenue to provide more homeless housing. (37 words)
Available in either Elven or steel variations, the horse armor would raise the health bar of the player’s steed without really doing a lot else besides changing the cosmetics of the beast. (33 words)
Example sentences (20)
Besides which, there is also no evidence for this besides what you have invented.
Although everyone besides Stan does it, it appears that no one in the Losers Club besides Mike even remembers what happened with Pennywise until their memories are jogged back in Derry.
Nkubili said that these debts, besides besides affecting the functioning of the hospital, it has also led them into bad books with the Auditor General.
Besides large number of sports enthusiasts, former Sarpanches, Isher Singh, Rampal Sharma, Mohan Lal Sharma, Brijpal Singh and Subhash Chander Sharma, besides City President Vijaypur National Conference, Sodagar Gupta were present.
Besides listening to views of directors representing various segments, nothing much was discussed besides general superintendence and internal working.
Besides the dignitaries there were the ordinary canons, each of whom, as a rule, held a separate prebend or endowment, besides receiving his share of the common funds of the church.
Addicts still died on the streets every year in places besides Portland.
Additionally, besides Saba buying up shares, the fund has been buying up its own shares.
All of these issues in these 4 verses are true, besides maybe for XBB.1.5 being the perfect.
AMD Software Adrenalin Edition 23.9.1 is available for download, and besides those new tricks, it also comes with a bugfix for Dolby Atmos.
And besides the gown being incredibly unique, I honestly need to know how the chain stayed exactly in place as Noah turned the sidewalk into a runway.
And that part of energy data goes besides the GSF also the amount of energy that is also caught and also as the generators, increase of revenue there for the generators.
A polyglot — besides three Indian languages, he speaks German and Spanish — Narasimhan holds an MA in German and an MBA in finance from The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.
Arjun lost to Carlsen and Levon Aronian, besides behind held four times.
As for the downsides, Tom struggled to think of any besides the difficulty they sometimes face finding a spot to park their caravan.
A spokesperson for Yaroslavsky’s office last week said the Cotner site was not off the table, and that Yaroslavsky was already considering other locations within Council District 5 besides Midvale Avenue to provide more homeless housing.
As with all musicians across the world, when the Pandemic shut down society, he had to put his guitars back in their cases, but now besides his local band he now also plays from time to time with an Ottawa-based band called Snake River line.
At this time, Gunn has not announced unveiled his plans for Wonder Woman besides a prequel series set on Themyscira before the birth of Diana Prince.
At this time, Hugh Jackman (Wolverine) is the only confirmed cast member besides Ryan Reynolds' titular Merc with a Mouth.
Available in either Elven or steel variations, the horse armor would raise the health bar of the player’s steed without really doing a lot else besides changing the cosmetics of the beast.
Phrases with besides
These phrases have their own page with example sentences containing the full combination:
Common combinations with besides
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- besides the 19×
- besides that 9×
- besides his 7×
- besides being 5×
- besides he 5×
- besides its 5×
- besides it 4×
- besides adding 3×
- besides having 3×
- besides her 3×