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Example sentences for "the side"

  • Another is played with marked plum-stones in a bowl, which are thrown like dice and count according to the side that is turned uppermost.

  • I tried to make a wide circuit of the camp, but I passed their ponies grazing all over the side hills at a considerable distance, and I went as quietly as possible, so as not to frighten them.

  • He had hoped to be recognized as one who fought in defense of their homes by the side of Brave Hawk; that would please the Blue Sky, he thought; but the honor was conferred upon his rival!

  • The female part of the Thorpe family, attended by James Morland, appeared among the crowd in less than a quarter of an hour, and Catherine immediately took her usual place by the side of her friend.

  • She could not but observe that the abundance of the dinner did not seem to create the smallest astonishment in the general; nay, that he was even looking at the side-table for cold meat which was not there.

  • As Rozales strolled away a figure rose from the shadows at the side of Pesita's tent and slunk off into the darkness.

  • Billy ducked beneath a vicious left swing and put a right to the side of the "hope's" head that sent the man to his knees.

  • The jungle approaches the village most closely on the opposite side--the side in rear of the chief's hut," pointed out Theriere.

  • They are killing Byrne," and then she turned back into the room, and with the short sword which she still grasped in her hand sprang to the side of the mucker who was offering his life to save her.

  • Early in the next round the White Corps student got an ugly wound on the side of his head and gave his opponent one like it.

  • The door of the second-story room on the side of the house was open, and occupied by the rear elevation of a cow.

  • I have made a little sketch of it here; that thing creeping up the side is not a bug, it is a hole.

  • The hotel was by the side of a booming torrent, whose music was loud and strong; we could not see this torrent, for it was dark, now, but one could locate it without a light.

  • He knocked the glasses off as his son came in and looked up at him with lazy fondness, rubbing the two red marks that they always leave on the side of the nose.

  • She stuck a scrap of paper in the side of Penelope's mirror.

  • The side of anything is always, if I may so say, one Dimension behind the thing.

  • I thought I was once more by the side of the Sphere, whose lustrous hue betokened that he had exchanged his wrath against me for perfectly placability.

  • On the one hand the proposition was calculated to bring the Women in all classes over to the side of the Chromatic Innovation.

  • She went round to the side gate--the house stood on a corner--and stole up the path to the kitchen.

  • They were therefore surprised, when they went to the side entrance, by which colored people gained access to the gallery stairs, to be met by an usher who barred their passage.

  • Then she went round to the side of the church, and, depositing her bouquet carefully on an old mossy gravestone, climbed up on the projecting sill of a window near the chancel.

  • It was natural that they should seek to save him by bending to him even when he leaned to the side of error.

  • Those who live on the side of the globe diametrically opposite.

  • It at least bears out the theory that it is on the side of the Lower Gill Moor that we must hope for results.

  • She was found badly wounded, by the side of her dead husband.

  • Milverton had glided as quick as a rat to the side of the room and stood with his back against the wall.

  • She glanced down in surprise at her own feet, and I observed the slight roughening of the side of the sole caused by the friction of the edge of the pedal.

  • It could not have been on the side of the heath, or I should have seen him.

  • A quick run brought her to the side of the kid.

  • The cat halted in mid air, missed the ape by but a hair's breadth, and with horrid snarlings rolled over upon its back, clutching and clawing in an effort to reach and dislodge the antagonist biting at its neck and knifing it in the side.

  • Malbihn reached for his gun again, but another hand had been quicker than his and he saw the weapon tossed to the ground at the side of the tent--out of reach.

  • In the exuberance of his joy he slapped his companion roughly on the side of the head.

  • In doing so I noted with horror that she was heavily chained by one ankle to the side of the vehicle.

  • When I had regained my feet I raised her in my arms and bore her to one of the benches at the side of the room.

  • I had by this time mastered the intricacies of walking under Martian conditions, and quickly responding to his command I advanced to the side of the incubator where the warriors stood.

  • This ladder leads to a man-hole made in the hull of the Nautilus, that corresponds with a similar hole made in the side of the boat.

  • Five sailors from the Nautilus, with their oars, waited in the boat, which had been made fast against the side.

  • A second door cut in the side of the Nautilus then opened.

  • At this moment the Nautilus arrived at the side of this high, perpendicular wall.

  • The passage was dark, and, by contrast with the picture the window frame enclosed, the side of the room seemed impenetrably dark.

  • I was still standing on the bank by the side of the road.

  • He managed to get alive into the ditch by the side of the road, and so escaped to Woking.

  • People were coming out of the side streets, and standing in groups at the corners talking.

  • I heard the rattle of his chariot and I went round to the side gate to ask the latest news.

  • No, not if it were to be by the side of Barton covert, and they were kept watching for two hours together.

  • You know very well that my opinion would have no weight with you, unless it were on the side of your wishes.

  • There will consequently be less of personal influence on the side of the former than of the latter.

  • And they rode all that day, and about the time of the sunsetting came to the side of a lake, where was a great dun.

  • I know the Author's on the side of good; he tells me so, it runs out of his pen as he writes.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "the 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:
    certain school; lost again; ought always; the cloud; the daughter; the seas; the seventeenth; the tent; thee good; their respective; then call; then enter; then inquired; then knit; then ordered; then put; then the priest shall; then wash; then work; there any; there might; there wasn; these gentlemen; these occasions; these points; these words