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

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

Then the solution which has not congealed, is poured out and put on one side or re-boiled.

From De Re Metallica, Translated from the First Latin Edition of 1556 by Agricola, Georgius

When he had established the average cost, all the sticks that had cost more he made her put on one side, and all the sticks that had cost less on the other.

From Rich Relatives by MacKenzie, Compton