How to Use all along in a Sentence

all along

adverb
  • Maybe that was the goal all along.
    — Kevin Sherrington feb. 27, Dallas Morning News, 27 Feb. 2026
  • Maybe the clues were there all along.
    — Stewart Clarke, Deadline, 12 Oct. 2025
  • And then he's liked it all along.
    — Kayla Grant, PEOPLE, 22 Oct. 2025
  • When all along it was in my hand!
    — Jann E. Freed, Forbes.com, 20 May 2026
  • For many, it’s been there all along.
    — Yohana Desta, Vanity Fair, 7 May 2026
  • This has been the game plan all along.
    — Peter Wehner, The Atlantic, 21 Jan. 2026
  • But maybe that was the point all along.
    — Itzel Luna, Boston Herald, 22 Aug. 2025
  • Then again, maybe it’s been here all along.
    — Marissa R. Moss, Rolling Stone, 13 June 2026
  • Or maybe this was part of the plan all along.
    — Steve Conroy, Boston Herald, 8 Apr. 2026
  • You guys have said all along that was not the case.
    — Bloomberg, Mercury News, 2 Mar. 2026
  • Of course, this has seemed like the plan all along.
    — Greg Engle, Forbes.com, 30 May 2026
  • Isn’t that what Brown promised all along?
    — Chandler Rome, New York Times, 13 Jan. 2026
  • The staff has been high on Rule all along.
    — Eric Olson, Chicago Tribune, 27 Apr. 2026
  • Bike and golf cart rental shops can be found all along the beach.
    — Carrie Honaker, Travel + Leisure, 15 Aug. 2025
  • Bike and golf cart rental shops can be found all along the beach.
    — Carrie Honaker, Travel + Leisure, 11 Aug. 2024
  • Perhaps that had been the point all along.
    — Serena Turner, Vanity Fair, 15 June 2026
  • The answer was right in front of us all along.
    — Maya Georgi, Rolling Stone, 9 June 2026
  • But what if the goalposts were wrong all along?
    — Lyssanoel Frater, USA Today, 15 Jan. 2026
  • It’s been baked into the cake all along.
    — Jeff Sanders, San Diego Union-Tribune, 16 Mar. 2026
  • And finding out what’s been there all along.
    — Clayton Davis, Variety, 12 Jan. 2026
  • Looking back, maybe the signs were there all along.
    — Dieter Kurtenbach, Mercury News, 26 Jan. 2026
  • And that some of the Avengers might have been aliens all along.
    — Chris Smith, BGR, 26 Jan. 2022
  • But Proctor was our guy all along.
    — Barry Jackson, Miami Herald, 29 Apr. 2026
  • The pain got worse with the bumpiness of the road all along the way.
    — New York Times, 3 May 2022
  • Mark Vientos was their friend all along.
    — Grant Brisbee, New York Times, 29 Sep. 2025
  • Matthew’s star turn—which had been the plan all along—was an open secret.
    — Han Ong, New Yorker, 22 June 2025
  • The Knicks may have had their own secret weapon all along.
    — Kristian Winfield, New York Daily News, 16 May 2026
  • Which is as much of a miracle as the show has been all along.
    — John Anderson, WSJ, 14 Mar. 2023
  • Sometimes the best answer is the one that was there all along.
    — Victoria Murphy, Town & Country, 3 Dec. 2018
  • They were shocked to see the slew of lights all along LaSalle.
    — Asal Rezaei, CBS News, 28 Dec. 2025

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