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

Here, Robin, keep it, and learn therefrom how not to make arrows, for vanity is a sin to be avoided and put on one side.

From Robin Hood by Wyeth, N. C. (Newell Convers)

Philippa had been left co-trustee with himself, and she was not a young woman who would meekly be put on one side.

From The Daughters of a Genius by Vaizey, George de Horne, Mrs.

All these considerations may be put on one side; all that we need consider is this, the discourse of the orator and the reasons for the presence of the audience.

From The Apologia and Florida of Apuleius of Madaura by Butler, Harold Edgeworth