all along
adverbDefinition of all along
: all the time
knew the truth all along
Examples of all along in a Sentence
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Machado and Hosmer have all along been pushing for consistency. — San Diego Union-Tribune, "Padres’ focus shifts to winning now for later," 1 Sep. 2019 Maybe this was the plan all along, to split the state delegations between Wisconsin and Illinois. — Daniel Bice, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, "Bice: Winners and losers from the DNC's hotel assignments for Democratic convention," 23 Aug. 2019 Or maybe police reform should have been a topic for discussion all along. — Ellen Mcgirt, Fortune, "Who Won the Democratic Debate?: raceAhead," 1 Aug. 2019 Witnessing its incredible fixedness, realizing the moon has been there all along, watching you, unchanging, is a little bit like seeing God. — Josephine Livingstone, The New Republic, "On Apollo 11's 50th anniversary, a new exhibition at the Met explores the moon's place in our cultural imagination.," 10 July 2019 Evidence of the fires also comes by way of a map created by the European Union's satellite program, Copernicus, that shows smoke from the fires spreading all along Brazil to the east Atlantic coast. — Susan Scutti, CNN, "Here's what we know about the fires in the Amazon rainforest," 23 Aug. 2019 But this presupposes that maximizing shareholder value is what corporations have been doing all along. — Dean Baker, Twin Cities, "Dean Baker: CEOs say shareholders won’t be No. 1 anymore. But they weren’t – the CEOs themselves were.," 21 Aug. 2019 Randy HolmesGetty Images Colton admitted that his attempt to control the situation ended up resulting in producer influence that undermined his true goal—which was to end up with Cassie all along. — Katherine J Igoe, Marie Claire, "Colton Underwood Revealed 'The Bachelor' Secrets on 'This American Life'," 19 Aug. 2019 Another important characteristic that shone out all along is what an internationalist Donatella is—not by any means the norm in the Italian fashion culture. — Vogue, "The Women Designers Who Changed The Way We Dress," 14 Aug. 2019These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'all along.' Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.
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