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

What has grown up during the process of so many generations, cannot be now put on one side.

From Wood Magic A Fable by Jefferies, Richard

The antithesis of rich and poor, of happy and unhappy, of oppressors and oppressed is not something accidental which can easily be put on one side as was believed by the enthusiasts of justice.

From Essays on the Materialistic Conception of History by Labriola, Antonio

"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