Definition of "side by side" [side by side]

• Alternative spelling of side-by-side. (adjective)
• Close to each other, together (adverb)

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• "To elucidate her answer, Fairweather, her warm blue eyes animated behind tortoiseshell glasses, lines up three eight-and-a-half by eleven sheets of paper, turns them horizontally, and lays them side by side in one thirty-three-inch stretch."
• "The pan of those squat, unremarkable homes, stacked side by side like rotting teeth, reminds me of the one-streetlight town near an ugly, blue-collar city where I was raised."
• "It was Crossfield whom Armstrong came to replace, yet, recalls Armstrong, We were side by side in the office for nearly a year…."