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

"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

There are some who think that a man with a grievance is a man to be pitied—and put on one side.

From Practical Politics; or, the Liberalism of To-day by Robbins, Alfred Farthing

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