ALL ALONG

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does all along mean? 

• ALL ALONG (adverb)
  The adverb ALL ALONG has 1 sense:

1. all the time or over a period of time

  Familiarity information: ALL ALONG used as an adverb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ALL ALONG (adverb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

All the time or over a period of time

Synonyms:

all along; right along

Context example:

the hope had been there all along

 Context examples 

This was odd, but only confirmed what I had all along thought—that there were no servants in the house.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

At that instant, Miss Murdstone, who has been lying in wait for nothing else all along, says in a deep warning voice: Clara!

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

Strange, Watson, that we should see tracks all along our line, but never a cow on the whole moor.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Now my theory all along has been that Lady St. Simon was decoyed away by Flora Millar, and that she, with confederates, no doubt, was responsible for her disappearance.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

But in the moment he looked at Lip-lip his hair rose on end all along his back.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

See all along the banks how the pages water the horses, and there beyond the town how they gallop them over the plain!

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

“Mates, do you hear that? I tell you now, that man there knew it all along. Look in the face of him and you'll see it wrote there.”

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

A lot depends on how things have been going all along and if you have been working hard—planets in Capricorn will want you to show ambition—then you will likely move through this eclipse easier than most.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

All along I had been dreading the fulfilment of this promise,—I had been looking out daily for the Coming Man, whose information respecting my past life and conversation was to brand me as a bad child for ever: now there he was.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

Could I immediately apply to either, however, I should still prefer you, because it strikes me that they have all along been so unwilling to have their own amusements cut up, as to shut their eyes to the truth.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)