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Example sentences for "both sides"

  • In this knotty dispute, in which the weight of evidence is equal on both sides, Plato simply expresses the sentiment of entire antiquity.

  • Now, in this war, you must needs think there was much loss on both sides, of which be pleased to accept of this brief account following.

  • Thus the bickerment went awhile; at last they passed from words to blows, and now there were knocks on both sides.

  • Moreover, the battle did hang in doubt; and they made a little retreat on both sides.

  • The day of election was fixed; and the canvass proceeded with briskness and perseverance on both sides.

  • On both sides of the gaol, is a small receiving-room, to which prisoners are conducted on their first reception, and whence they cannot be removed until they have been examined by the surgeon of the prison.

  • Mormon 4:9 9 And now all these things had been done, and there had been thousands slain on both sides, both the Nephites and the Lamanites.

  • They had got us on both sides, and there was no way of escape.

  • When we stopped--which we did on an average about once an hour--you could see vast camps on both sides of the line, and often we struck regiments on the march along the railway track.

  • On both sides of the road transport and engineers' stores were parked, and some of it strayed into the highway.

  • Is that to remind me you have been beaten on both sides?

  • The admirable port of Brundusium was double; the outward harbor was a gulf covered by an island, and narrowing by degrees, till it communicated by a small gullet with the inner harbor, which embraced the city on both sides.

  • Gallican school In the field of controversy I always pity the moderate party, who stand on the open middle ground exposed to the fire of both sides.

  • They were received with equal resolution; and, in their common disdain for the unwarlike people of Greece and Asia, it was confessed on both sides, that the Turks and the Franks were the only nations entitled to the appellation of soldiers.

  • This was supplied to Bensley and Son, and turned out 1000 sheets, printed on both sides, in the hour.

  • I cannot give a full account of their arguments on both sides; only this I remember, that they cavilled very much with one another.

  • I have no mind to enter into arguments to move either or both sides to a more charitable compliance one with another.

  • That part of the river where the ships lie up when they come home is called the Pool, and takes in all the river on both sides of the water, from the Tower to Cuckold's Point and Limehouse.

  • Electroplating became an art, and telegraphy sprang into active being on both sides of the Atlantic.

  • This study was so exhaustive that one can only compare it to the careful investigation made in advance by any competent war staff of the elements of strength and weakness, on both sides, in a possible campaign.

  • Heavenly Father," exclaimed she, "it has begun, and I will bear it to the bitter end!

  • I regret, however, that their majesties should have directed their choice toward me; for I am convinced that I shall not live long enough to fulfil the destiny to which this marriage calls me.

  • I was really so preoccupied at our last sitting that I--I failed exactly to comprehend its nature.

  • Now the Markfleet was then flowing between sheets of ice on both sides, and there were tongues of ice bridging it across every here and there.

  • She had on a cloak of rich blue woof, and under it a scarlet kirtle, and a silver girdle round her waist, but her hair came down on both sides of her bosom, and she had turned the locks up under her girdle.

  • At the upper end of the inlet, its low, cliffy lining sinks, at both sides, into a beach.

  • It is right to look at both sides of any question; but I am far from making the apology of this worse than bestial vice.

  • It was too late now to think of that; and so I made up my mind at last to keep my honour on both sides, both to the King and to the maiden, although I might lose everything except a heavy heart for it.

  • And this plan had been found to answer well, and to save much trouble on both sides, so that everybody wondered it had not been done before.

  • And our chief aim was to purge this rust; when rather we should have stopped the hole, and let the oxide do its worst, with a plug of new flesh on both sides of it.

  • A settlement by arbitration or by mutual consent reached by concession on both sides; a reciprocal abatement of extreme demands or rights, resulting in an agreement.

  • The display on both sides, the quickness of the one and the steadiness of the other, had excited the partisan spirit of the crowd, and the men were making new bets and increasing original bets.

  • Both sides of his neck and head were ripped and slashed.

  • Tim Keenan stepped in and bent over Cherokee, fondling him on both sides of the shoulders with hands that rubbed against the grain of the hair and that made slight, pushing-forward movements.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "both sides" 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:
    both banks; both being; both churches; both civil and criminal; both classes; both clauses; both countries; both flanks; both here; both inclusive; both languages; both nations; both numbers; both officers and men; both parts; both poles; both political; both species; both the; both their; both those; both white and black; bother about; brief notice; great pity; nervous prostration