Tandem

//ˈtændəm//

"Tandem" in a Sentence (32 examples)

I read both of those books in tandem several years ago and I can't remember which one the scene you're describing was in.

It was our first time riding a tandem bicycle.

He drove horses tandem out of town.

He knew how to drive horses tandem.

Tom runs the café in tandem with his wife.

Tom started an online business in tandem with Mary.

I'm a German native speaker, and I'm looking for a tandem partner for German-French language exchange.

Sometimes a unicycle is enough to drive through life. But I prefer the tandem.

East Asian graphemes, particularly sinograms, often mesmerize Westerners. As a linguist, I tend more towards a very comprehensive grammar as Lojban's than just the graphical features of East Asian languages. Indeed, Westerners and Easterners alike may find mystique in such scripts. Korean, unlike Japanese and Chinese, can make do with just phonograms, as Koreans consign their sinograms to "higher" literature. In retrospect, I should have taken Korean in tandem with Japanese during university.

On the 28th of March of 2022, as a suggestion by some folks, in tandem with my Lojban study, I would take up Klingon again. They are like two purple yam cheesecake brownies.

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[H]e was a man whose head was at this time entirely full of gigs, and tandems, and unicorns: business was his aversion; pleasure was his business.

A friend of mine accompanies me in my carriage to Edinburgh. There we shall leave it, and proceed in a tandem (a species of open carriage) through the western passes to Inverary, where we shall purchase shelties, to enable us to view places inaccessible to vehicular conveyances.

Mr. Foker was no more like a gentleman now than in his school days: and yet Pen felt a secret pride in strutting down High Street with a young fellow who owned tandems, talked to officers, and ordered turtle and champagne for dinner.

The chief characteristic of this set was the most reckless extravagance of every kind. […] They drove tandems in all directions, scattering their ample allowances, which they treated as pocket money, about roadside inns and Oxford taverns with open hand, and going tick for every thing which could by possibility be booked.

Later in the day the Row is empty, but, on the other hand, the pleasure horse monopolises the circle, now comparatively deserted. Singly, in pairs, tandems, and fours, he draws the family carriage with a lozenge on the panels, the brougham of the fashionable doctor, the coupé of the popular actress, the man about town's smart dog-cart.

If you want a canoe that can seat both of you comfortably, you’ll need a tandem.

If an interstitial implant is placed in a patient with an intact uterus, a tandem should be inserted and loaded with cesium 137 or iridium 192.

Stubb's whale had been killed some distance from the ship. It was a calm; so, forming a tandem of three boats, we commenced the slow business of towing the trophy to the Pequod.

Spanish and English tandem learners discuss the meaning of a given word in a semi-structured conversation. […] Tandem learning is the term used to describe the learning which takes place when native speakers and learners of each other's language learn from each other and help each other learn. […] Tandem learners are responsible for identifying their own needs, setting their own goals and finding means to achieve them.

The horses were harnessed tandem.

to ride tandem on a bicycle built for two

There was nothing too exotic about the ground-car. There were two seats in tandem, each of which could hold three.

tandem canoe    tandem engine

Their skillful tandem work made the project quick and successful.

[O]ur dog-cart having come to hand, from the hilliness of the road, we tandemed the ten miles due west, along the southern shore of Clew Bay.

And sometimes these nymphs [on frescoes] are tandeming the daintiest little gryphons so pleasantly that one longs (in the dream) to be with them, not fearing a reverse.

Hendee is located at the New Marlboro', and is tandeming with his lady friends through the Newtons daily.

Mr. Cadman gives a humorous description of their journey, as they tandemed the donkey to drag their impedimenta up the slope of 1,200 feet.

[A]n excessively dissipative error cancellation delay line is unacceptable, since that line directly tandems the main power amplifier.

Charlotte, who I had not yet had the chance to do more than talk to, was tandeming [on a tandem bicycle] with George but each was accusing the other of not putting in their fare share of the pedalling.

No strained informality this as Judy [Garland] tandemed provocative chatter with her guests Lena Horne and Terry-Thomas.

Remote-office-to-remote-office communication happens by tandeming through the headquarters router. The headquarters router and port connection can become bottlenecks. Network latency increases with tandeming.

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