BESIDES in a Sentence

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250 example sentences for BESIDES, such as:

1. He sat down beside the fire.
2. Come and sit here beside me.
3. His wife lay dead beside him.
4. She lay stiff and still beside him.
5. Our efforts look puny beside Fred's.

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 Meanings and Examples of BESIDES
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
besides
 ad.  over and above; in addition to; other than
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1  I read and studied the wild fancies of these writers with delight; they appeared to me treasures known to few besides myself.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 2
2  I saw few human beings besides them, and if any other happened to enter the cottage, their harsh manners and rude gait only enhanced to me the superior accomplishments of my friends.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 12
3  I was, besides, endued with a figure hideously deformed and loathsome; I was not even of the same nature as man.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 13
4  But, besides, I could not bring myself to disclose a secret which would fill my hearer with consternation and make fear and unnatural horror the inmates of his breast.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 22
5  And I had the high intention of reading many other books besides.
The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 1
6  These emotions, in fact, and its bitterest scorn besides, seemed to be the sole portion that she retained in the universal heart.
The Scarlet Letter By Nathaniel Hawthorne
Context  Highlight   In V. HESTER AT HER NEEDLE
7  With a hand's-breadth further flight, it would have fallen into the water, and have given the little brook another woe to carry onward, besides the unintelligible tale which it still kept murmuring about.
The Scarlet Letter By Nathaniel Hawthorne
Context  Highlight   In XVIII. A FLOOD OF SUNSHINE
8  The prospect of four thousand a-year, in addition to his present income, besides the remaining half of his own mother's fortune, warmed his heart, and made him feel capable of generosity.
Sense and Sensibility By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 1
9  And besides all this, I am afraid, Mama, he has no real taste.
Sense and Sensibility By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 3
10  But there are other points to be considered besides his inclination.
Sense and Sensibility By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 4
11  They would see, he said, only one gentleman there besides himself; a particular friend who was staying at the park, but who was neither very young nor very gay.
Sense and Sensibility By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 7
12  The bull-like proceeding last mentioned, besides that it was unquestionably to be regarded in the light of a liberty, was particularly disagreeable just after bread and meat.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In Chapter XI
13  There were four little girls, and two little boys, besides the baby who might have been either, and the baby's next successor who was as yet neither.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In Chapter XXIII
14  They both had weak eyes, which I had long attributed to their chronically looking in at keyholes, and they were always at hand when not wanted; indeed that was their only reliable quality besides larceny.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In Chapter XL
15  I really couldn't help thinking, as I sat taking in all this, that the misfortune extended to some other members of that family besides Mrs. Gummidge.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 3. I HAVE A CHANGE
Example Sentence: (40 in 3 pages)
16  Put a cross beside the name of the candidate you wish to vote for.
17  The worst way to miss someone is to be sitting right beside them knowing you can't have them.
18  To build another scyscraper in the city is beside the point.
19  He sat down beside the fire.
20  Some people have boxes or baskets for letters beside the front door.
21  The statue shows King Richard in full stature beside his horse.
22  Come and sit here beside me.
23  Large packages are sometimes left beside the door.
24  She lay stiff and still beside him.
25  We lay beside the pool to dry off in the sun.
26  His wife lay dead beside him.
27  Our efforts look puny beside Fred's.
28  The worst way to miss some one is to be sitting right beside him knowing you can't have him.
29  He noticed what looked like a bundle of rags beside the road.
30  Love is when you sit beside someone doing nothing yet you feel perfectly happy.