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

But this theory had to be put on one side.

From Luck at the Diamond Fields by Belgrave, Dalrymple J.

But we are now writing of the summer, after the snow has all melted, the snow-ploughs put on one side, and the roads recovered from the havoc wrought by the streams of melting snow.

From Peeps at Many Lands: Norway by Cooper, A. Heaton (Alfred Heaton)

The pagan exaltation of her father at the death of his enemy she could put on one side, excusing it by the remembrance of the terrible insult which she knew that he had received.

From Is He Popenjoy? by Trollope, Anthony