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Example sentences for "this side"

  • Perchance To shun him was the vacant space left here By what of firm land on this side appears, That sprang aloof.

  • There were thirty-four lodges, comfortably constructed of mats; the Indians, too, were better clothed than any of the wandering bands they had hitherto met on this side of the Rocky Mountains.

  • On arriving there, Mr. Crooks was shocked to find that, while the people on this side of the river were amply supplied with provisions, none had been sent to his own forlorn and famishing men on the opposite bank.

  • The weather continued to be temperate, marking the superior softness of the climate on this side of the mountains.

  • It was resolved, therefore, since they must winter somewhere on this side of the Missouri, to descend no lower, but to keep up in these solitary regions, where they would be in no danger of molestation.

  • If there was any intention in Thorpe Ambrose of sending a worn-out horse to the knacker's, that horse was sure to be found waiting his doom in a field on this side of the town.

  • I'll make the place tidy on this side of the cabin, and you shall make the place tidy on the other.

  • But it is far better living on this side, and the air is purer.

  • Here, here, on this side, said Friar John, in the devil's name.

  • Must he go wrong all through wi' this side, or must he go wrong all through wi' that, or else be hunted like a hare?

  • Do you observe how the coral reefs extend at this side of the island, where they are protected from the winds and waves; and how different it is on the weather side, which we have just left?

  • Why, we have not yet found any water, and that is the first necessary of life - if there is no water on this side of the island, we must pitch our tents somewhere else.

  • On this side, the new concern for city conditions dates from the book of a newspaper reporter, Jacob A.

  • He could not have been the thoughtful man who would stand strong in the struggle for liberty on that side of the sea and the struggle for life on this side of the sea without opposing trifling and vice.

  • On this side it must be that best known, most beloved, most typical of all Americans, Abraham Lincoln.

  • Within sixteen years some of them landed at Plymouth Rock, and things began to happen on this side.

  • Sancho put in his fingers, and feeling about asked him, "How many grinders used your worship have on this side?

  • Hence we must needs go on the open side, And one by one; and I did fear the fire On this side, and on that the falling down.

  • Now am I caught on this side and on that; One keeps me silent, one to speak conjures me, Wherefore I sigh, and I am understood.

  • On this side of the Atlantic Ocean; -- used of the eastern or the western side, according to the standpoint of the writer.

  • There is nobody lives on this side of the lake, for six miles, unless you count the Leather-Stocking and old John for settlers.

  • Well, we have happily frightened the birds from this side of the valley,” said Marmaduke, “and the carnage must of necessity end for the present.

  • Howbeit I cannot devise all things according to wisdom, for these men in their evil counsel drive me from my wits, on this side and on that, and there is none to aid me.

  • He already was handling the bow, turning it every way about, and proving it on this side and on that, lest the worms might have eaten the horns when the lord of the bow was away.

  • I find very little remarkable on this side of Suffolk, but what is on the sea-shore as above.

  • There is no red clay that I know of round here, and there are miles of it this side of the Delaware camp.

  • At first it was still, and then it took an odd jerky motion, to this side and to that, up and down like a jack-o-lantern.

  • But be certain and stay on this side of the creek and do not go out on the river," said the Colonel.

  • There are no Indians on this side of the river," said Major McColloch, in answer to the Colonel's question.

  • You who are of such an opinion, come to this side; you who are of any other, go over to the side of him whose opinion you follow.

  • The rest of this side of the house is appropriated to the use of my slaves and freedmen; but most of the rooms in it are respectable enough to put my guests into.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "this 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:
    having taken; this action; this case; this character; this church; this circumstance; this committee; this direction; this family; this form; this good; this island; this kind; this kingdom; this manner; this means; this name; this order; this poem; this situation; this society; this subject; this treaty; this vessel; this village; twelfth part