put on one side

Example Sentences

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Too many dishes were put on one side, and in the middle of the dinner the table tipped over.

From Time Magazine Archive

After you die, your sins will be put on one side of a scale, and Ma’at’s feather will be put on the other.”

From "Merci Suárez Changes Gears" by Meg Medina

Austerely the records run; austerely, too, is related her Majesty's desire that a certain perfect waist-coat, the fame of which had reached her ears, should be put on one side for her Majesty's personal use.

From Great Ralegh by Selincourt, Hugh de

If all the men in the world were put on one side of a scale and all the women on the other, the scale would probably stand perfectly still.

From The Book of Business Etiquette by Henney, Nella

"There used to be ways," she said, "in which a marriage of that kind could be put on one side afterwards."

From Marion Fay by Trollope, Anthony