It was square, and must have measured three miles along a side.

It can be, and often is, measured along various dimensions.

The track is measured along a line 20 cm up from the bottom.

The original house measured 41 feet along the road, and 31 feet from front to back.

It measured over five hundred miles along a side.

This is the length of blade measured along the shaft.

Every walk becomes a new obligation to measure your progress along the fashion curve.

The wheel is placed in contact with the curved line to be measured and run along its length.

A more complex calculation is needed to find the diameter of the dish measured along its surface.

This is easy enough, but measuring along the coastline requires a very long ruler indeed.