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

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

An enormous mass of paper being put in the balance with the existing quantity of merchandise and other property, the more paper there was offered against purchasable objects the more rapid the increase became.

From The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 13 by Rudd, John

For herself the property, as put in the balance beside her love, was lighter than air itself.

From Evelina's Garden by Freeman, Mary Eleanor Wilkins