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Example sentences for "our side"

  • We should say to Europe: "Shinny on your own side of the water and we will shinny on our side.

  • Nobody on our side of the line had any cash.

  • Be this as it may, my spirit was depressed and my confidence discouraged by the intense quietude on our side, for I was sure that beneath the surface the Republicans, with resolute determination and multiplied resources, were as busy as bees.

  • As soon as she has signed it, she will no longer molest us: first, because she is our ally; and principally because she will apprehend that we might take back from her what we generously gave, in order to win her over to our side.

  • What did we do, for instance, with the Neapolitan Count Montalban, who became a thorn in our side, and endeavored to gain power over the emperor?

  • She is on our side; your father is faithful to us.

  • He looked back at me directly, and, as long as we stood in our corner, his eyes never wandered away again to the empty wall or the vacant space at our side.

  • The advantage of numbers in our little love-plot was all on our side.

  • A very small part of General Buell's army was on our side of the Tennessee River that evening, and their loss was trivial.

  • He had to countermarch and use the steamboats in the Yazoo to get on the firm ground on our side of the Chickasaw.

  • This valley afforded the enemy partial cover; but our men were so posted as to have a good fire at them as they crossed the valley and ascended the rising ground on our side.

  • For whoever is not against us is on our side.

  • Even the idlers on our side of the river set up a hurrah.

  • Captain Steele, who was not of our side, loyally gave the health of the Duke of Marlborough, the greatest general of the age.

  • What ere it be, be thou still like thy selfe, And sit thee by our side.

  • Meane time your cheeks do counterfeit our Roses: For pale they looke with feare, as witnessing The truth on our side Som.

  • On our side, like the Token'd Pestilence, Where death is sure.

  • The press-gangs are out already on our side.

  • What chariots, what horses, Against us shall bide While the Stars in their courses Do fight on our side?

  • I leaned out of the window to see which of Heaven's host might be on our side, and there beheld I good trusty Mars, very red and heated, bustling about his setting.

  • No, if we handle this thing right, we'll have the public on our side.

  • Honest Governor Eden had the misfortune to see the justice of our side, and was driven into a seventh state by his attempts to square his conscience.

  • Between the Federalists and the Jacobins, I would better say, for the virulence of the French Revolution was soon to be reflected among the parties on our side.

  • We're all in the same boat, and there isn't a man who's been on our side of this fight who could take a political office at this time.

  • The news came, I think, on Wednesday, that the advantage was on our side.

  • But during the victorious lull, heretofore alluded to, something is happening on our side, that is of very serious moment.

  • I think we should get the organizations on our side; they're already beginning to be interested in cooperation.

  • So he is mourned as lost to our side; he was so easy to get wealth by.

  • We wish no harm to any one, therefore the good is on our side.

  • The least apparent mishap on our side, or the least seeming advantage on the part of the enemy, have determined with them the fate of a whole campaign.

  • Even Mr. Ropes in his "Campaign under Pope" does not seem to have seen the Official Records on our side, and supposed that Taylor's brigade was all that was engaged.

  • After a day or two we were able to keep pickets on that side with a flatboat and hawser to bring them back, covered by artillery on our side of the Kanawha.

  • We had for two days had constant light skirmishing with the advance-guard of Wise's forces on the north bank of the river, and supposed that the principal part of his command was on our side, and not far in front of us.

  • After wee had disputed a long time it was found that the right was on our side, and wee innocent of what they did accuse us.

  • This occasion lost, our consolation was that we had that passage free, but vexed for having lost that opportunity, & contrarywise weare contented of our side, for doubtlesse some of us had ben killed in the bataill.

  • We had allwayes spyes of our side, which weare out of zele and obedience.

  • And there are totally unnecessary problems of administration that are entailed by the maharajah administering a small piece of territory on our side of the river.

  • Wasuki, who is king of all the snakes, is on our side!

  • On the other hand, there's a very pretty little palace over on our side of the river with about a half square mile surrounding it that pertains to the native State.

  • If the treasure should be found--as it might be--somewhere hidden on that little plot of ground with a palace on it on our side of the river, our problem would be fairly easy.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "our side" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.


    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    expose myself; higher forms; our author; our citizens; our days; our earth; our experience; our feet; our fellow; our hero; our holy; our host; our left; our line; our literature; our opinion; our own little star; our rear; our religion; our troops; quit rent; set fire; sometimes applied; teach thee; turned aside; wounded soldiers