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.
  • All the kids line up right beside you.
    — Brendan Connelly, Boston Herald, 21 Sep. 2025
  • Build the ledger beside the road.
    — Anu Adedoyin Adasolum, semafor.com, 13 Oct. 2025
  • Again, this all may be beside the point.
    — Allison Morrow, CNN Money, 1 May 2026
  • The box score showed three points beside her name.
    — Nathan Canilao, Mercury News, 27 June 2026
  • But many feel that’s beside the point.
    — Sarah Scott, Parents, 25 Aug. 2025
  • Glimpse the vials stowed beside the eggs in the fridge.
    — Literary Hub, 29 Apr. 2026
  • Sports seemed beside the point.
    — Louisa Thomas, New Yorker, 1 Feb. 2026
  • Her friends slept on the floor in her dorm room beside her.
    — Clare Mulroy, USA Today, 21 Oct. 2025
  • The girls who can walk in front of a crowd with no one beside them.
    — Tabitha Parent, People.com, 26 Aug. 2025
  • The girls who can walk in front of a crowd with no one beside them.
    — Stepheny Price, FOXNews.com, 28 Aug. 2025
  • Whether Noem was telling the truth is beside the point.
    — Jonathan Chait, The Atlantic, 5 Mar. 2026
  • The boy had found a little box beside the road.
    — Forbes.com, 17 Sep. 2025
  • Root sat down at the piano bench beside me.
    — Literary Hub, 3 June 2026
  • But all of that is beside the bigger point.
    — Allison Morrow, CNN Money, 1 May 2026
  • Cap knelt beside him and checked his vital signs.
    — Paige Williams, New Yorker, 12 Jan. 2026
  • Police found a man on the ground with a pit bull beside him.
    — Justin Muszynski, Hartford Courant, 12 Jan. 2026
  • But to simmer in wist feels beside the point.
    — Brittany Allen, Literary Hub, 11 May 2026
  • Sit on the edge of a surface with your hands beside your hips.
    — Jakob Roze, Health, 5 Feb. 2026
  • But what the players want seems beside the point in this case.
    — Matthew Futterman, New York Times, 31 May 2026
  • Whether one agrees with that response is beside the point.
    — Torie Bosch, STAT, 20 June 2026
  • Joan asked, settling in beside them with a glass of white wine.
    — Catherine Lacey, New Yorker, 5 Apr. 2026
  • Joanne was found beside him with her head bludgeoned and throat slashed.
    — Toria Sheffield, PEOPLE, 10 May 2026
  • The question is beside the point, though.
    — Big Think, 6 Nov. 2025
  • Alex, who sits beside her, has his hands placed on her stomach.
    — Kayla Grant, PEOPLE, 22 May 2026

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
  • Three sisters and a brother now sit beside and will grow up with him.
    — Georgia Slater, PEOPLE.com, 11 July 2020
  • Paul is one of the most caring, strong people to work beside.
    — Clayton Davis, Variety, 31 Oct. 2025
  • Jen took notes in her work notebook, beside to-do lists and client requests.
    — Eric Boodman, STAT, 29 Sep. 2022
  • The library even has a fireplace to warm up beside in colder months.
    — Birmingham Magazine, AL.com, 5 Feb. 2018
  • Try not to place your setup too close to others, whether in front of, behind, or beside.
    — Patricia Shannon, Southern Living, 19 June 2026
  • Live roaches are on floor beside and behind cooler under racks stored on floor.
    — David J. Neal, miamiherald, 7 June 2018
  • In the photos, Salazar can be seen posing beside and behind the wheel of a car.
    — Maria Pasquini, PEOPLE.com, 30 Sep. 2021
  • Trains and streamers snaked down runways behind (and sometimes beside) looks for day and evening.
    — Laird Borrelli-Persson, Vogue, 15 Mar. 2023
  • While there, close beside, the still unseeing fox Was only a hare’s-breath away.
    — Pat Myers, Washington Post, 18 Aug. 2022
  • An alabaster stone fused with a crucifix lay beside; it is said to have always been by his bedside.
    — Sofia Celeste, Footwear News, 7 Sep. 2025
  • Less of a wilderness experience because a road is beside much of it.
    — Brian E. Clark, Los Angeles Times, 8 May 2020
  • There are even tiny white slippers tucked beside with it, sweetly and almost discreetly.
    — Jill Gleeson, Good Housekeeping, 5 Oct. 2018
  • 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
  • Ora arrived late and took the only open seat, beside Kieffer.
    — Nanette Asimov, SFChronicle.com, 8 June 2020
  • Tables are set right beside and along the sand, with sea breezes drifting through and a menu of coastal ingredients cooked over open flames.
    — Skye Sherman, Southern Living, 13 June 2026
  • The other positions itself beside, as if to partner in the journey, with the intent to grow.
    — Mary Hemphill, Forbes.com, 28 May 2026
  • 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
  • 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
  • Finding a seat means, quickly, eyeing your compatriots, and choosing who to dine beside.
    — Megan Spurrell, Condé Nast Traveler, 8 Oct. 2025
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • Avedon was known for standing beside, not behind, the camera in order to create intimacy with his subjects.
    — Julie Belcove, Robb Report, 16 Apr. 2023
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • Black Angus leisurely grazing the pastures of timothy and clover, calves frolicking beside.
    — Lara Jackson, National Geographic, 19 Nov. 2020

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