put in the balance
Example Sentences
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“We remove it. But what we put in the balance is what we can learn.”
From New York Times • Aug. 31, 2021
I made a stretching board from a spault I split out of a basswood log and stretched the otter skin, and put in the balance of the day in chopping wood.
From Fifty Years a Hunter and Trapper Autobiography, experiences and observations of Eldred Nathaniel Woodcock during his fifty years of hunting and trapping. by Woodcock, Eldred Nathaniel
The love of Spanish women for bull-fights was neatly glossed over, and various absurd charges against American women were put in the balance against it.
From Autobiography of Andrew Dickson White — Volume 2 by White, Andrew Dickson
This ended our bee hunting and we now put in the balance of the time, while in camp, with the traps.
From Fifty Years a Hunter and Trapper Autobiography, experiences and observations of Eldred Nathaniel Woodcock during his fifty years of hunting and trapping. by Woodcock, Eldred Nathaniel
Besides, there are all these later happenings, all your help to be put in the balance in your favour.
From Against Odds A Detective Story by Lynch, Lawrence L.
