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Example sentences for "either side"

  • They were in the plain old dining-room with its smaller fireplace and its big old-fashioned cupboards built into the wall on either side of the projecting chimney-piece.

  • She had not disturbed the knife and fork on either side of it.

  • Steeply on either side rose a hill, strewn with huge bowlders, many of them large as large houses.

  • She and her mother--quite privately and with nothing openly said on either side--had canvassed Sam as a "possibility.

  • It was evening, and a beautiful coolness issued from the woods on either side.

  • The resultant halt and search upon either side of the road delayed the chase to a sufficient extent to award the fugitive a mile lead by the time the band resumed the hunt along the main highway.

  • A frowsy, rat-faced woman and a gawky youth of fourteen stuck their heads out the doorway at either side of the man.

  • Half way between the Case farm and Millsville detective Burton saw, far ahead along the road, two figures scale a fence and disappear behind the fringing blackberry bushes which grew in tangled profusion on either side.

  • There was no perceptible motion in the air, not a visible drop of water fell upon a leaf of the beeches, birches, and firs composing the wood on either side.

  • If there had been a respectable minority on either side, the case would have been most natural.

  • The road here ran across Durnover Moor, open to the road on either side.

  • The wheat was now tall, and the path was narrow; thus the way was quite a sunken groove between the embowing thicket on either side.

  • To place in an equal state, as to obligation, or in a state in which nothing is due on either side; to balance, as accounts; to make quits.

  • He next from her of Silence makes demand, Who of his motions easily might know; As one who from one land to the other hied, Kindling and scattering fire on either side.

  • For Horse and Foot, and Captains of those bands, On either side, could deftly ply their hands.

  • Vanamee took a couple of turns the length of the aisle, looking about into the chapels on either side of the chancel.

  • They were seated on the baulks of timber that cumbered the deck of the brig on either side of the caboose.

  • It suited the lazy humour of Mr Button that he never pursued the lagoon more than half a mile or so on either side of the beach.

  • Two sails, rolled up, lay on either side of the doorway.

  • On either side of the broad beach before them the cocoa-nut trees came down like two regiments, and bending gazed at their own reflections in the lagoon.

  • Richard smiled and pointed to a fat, rather vulgar woman, dressed in black, sitting in a stall in the middle of the auditorium with a man in a broadcloth frock-coat on either side of her.

  • Indeed, there was quite a number of them, symmetrically arranged in two rows, one on either side of us.

  • We were now all talking at once, on either side of the wall.

  • On either side of them were white-oak swamps, so that they could not see a hundred yards ahead; but for several miles Darby had been watching for the smoke of the burning bridge, and as they neared the river his heart began to sink.

  • His eye first swept the well-known horizon, taking in the thickets below him and the heavy pines on either side where it was already dusk, and then rested on the little cabin opposite.

  • In vertebrates they are appendages of the visceral arches on either side of the neck.

  • A flat muscle on either side of the tongue, connecting it with the hyoid bone.

  • Now, on either side of the wheel, and extending to the extremity of the table, run, in duplicate, the schedule of mises or stakes.

  • As he halted in indecision it broke out on either side, and seemed to be caught up and passed on throughout the whole length of the wood to its farthest limit.

  • A couple of high-backed settles, facing each other on either side of the fire, gave further sitting accommodations for the sociably disposed.

  • Little was visible but squares of a dusky orange-red on either side of the street, where the firelight or lamplight of each cottage overflowed through the casements into the dark world without.

  • It led him on, and he penetrated to where the light was less, and trees crouched nearer and nearer, and holes made ugly mouths at him on either side.

  • It was found to be a very tight fit, but just a possibility, and no more-- as I am reminded every day, by the sight of various large holes which it punched in the walls on either side as it came along.

  • It was most delicious weather, when we came into Modena, where the darkness of the sombre colonnades over the footways skirting the main street on either side, was made refreshing and agreeable by the bright sky, so wonderfully blue.

  • Still further to stimulate the charitable, there is a monstrous painting on the plaster, on either side of the grated door, representing a select party of souls, frying.

  • This announcement was received with a shout by the crowd, who now resumed their places at either side of the plot of ground which had been measured.

  • Before the gates there sat On either side a formidable Shape.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "either 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:
    beyond all; dear teacher; each cake; either actually; either bank; either because; either before; either case; either flank; either fresh; either from; either house; either husband; either part; either the; either through; favourable wind; happen next; medical history; much attached; pitched voice; return immediately; said lightly; said the young nobleman; sodium sulphate; would look