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Example sentences for "three sides"

  • The house to which they were bound was the last in the village, standing alone among lilacs; and beyond it, on three sides, there was open meadow rising towards the borders of the wood.

  • Just then the Yorkist skirmishers carried one of the shoreside taverns, swarming in upon it on three sides, and driving out or taking its defenders.

  • The fire had been built upon a heathy hummock of the ground, surrounded on three sides by thicket, and it now burned very strong, roaring aloud and brandishing flames.

  • This was a terraced mound, faced by buildings on three sides, leaving an immense stair-way occupying the fourth side.

  • Some were constructed on three sides of a court, like those on the Rio Chaco, in New Mexico.

  • Around each of these courts, generally on three sides, are the ruins of houses.

  • The same border is found repeated on three sides of the head of a frequently recurring personage whom Doctor Schellhas designates as "God C, of the Ornamented face.

  • Three sides of this charming park are enclosed by the cottages and cabins, which back against the hills, and are more or less embowered in trees.

  • As the abrupt faces of these eminences form an insurmountable barrier on three sides of the basin just alluded to, we fancied that the grotto must be there.

  • The lower town is walled on three sides only, as the perpendicular face of the cliff renders any defence unnecessary on that side; and on the summit of the precipice stands the upper town and castle.

  • The outer court is surrounded by fine old plane trees, and we looked into the inner one, which is surrounded on three sides by cloisters, and several antique pillars, with a fine ornamented fountain in the centre.

  • In shape it resembles a horse-shoe much contracted at the two extremities; and consists of the crater of an extinct volcano, the cone of which remains on three sides, but more or less in a state of degradation.

  • The crest is approached on three sides by rising ground, above which the steep summit towers for a hundred feet; on the north side it is an unbroken precipice.

  • Washington could now couple with this the information, just received from Lafayette, that Cornwallis had established himself at Yorktown, where he had deep water on three sides of him, and a narrow neck in front.

  • Stony Point was a rocky promontory washed on three sides by the waters of the Hudson.

  • They then formed themselves into three divisions of nearly equal size, and prepared to storm the heights on three sides.

  • Clinton and Pigot had reached the southern and eastern sides of the redoubt, and it was now assailed on three sides at once.

  • From the house on three sides, the hill sloped steeply down, and the garden where Sir Richard and Amyas were walking gave a truly English prospect.

  • But the other three, with a mere whoop and howl of victory, were boarding the car on three sides at once.

  • MacIan followed him round the corner and found himself in what was certainly an even finer fencing court, of flat, firm sand, enclosed on three sides by white walls of rock, and on the fourth by the green wall of the advancing sea.

  • They had fortified it with sand-bags and crammed it with machine--guns which could sweep the ground on three sides, so making a direct attack by infantry a suicidal enterprise.

  • We were surrounded on three sides, and our position was hopeless.

  • A courier rushes in from the priests, who from the highest hill had followed the course of the battle, and reports that on the left wing the troops of Mentezufis are visible, and that the Libyans are surrounded on three sides.

  • Below was an immense court surrounded on three sides by low buildings instead of a wall.

  • By the first week in November we were in possession of three sides of the mountain, while the Austrians held the fourth side and--but most important of all--the summit.

  • At the same time the enemy's trenches were entered north of Fricourt, so that the enemy's garrison in that village was pressed on three sides.

  • For this immurement, however, there exists fair compensation in the shape of a very pretty garden, or rather a series of garden spaces, which surround the dwelling on three sides.

  • Entering the grove I find myself in a sort of miniature glen surrounded on three sides by very low cliffs, above which enormous pines are growing, incalculably old.

  • Numbers of lads had also climbed (I never could imagine how) upon the narrow eaves over the galleries below my windows; and all the openings of my room, on three sides, were full of faces.

  • On three sides of the main hall near the base of the columns under the floor is a square water channel, indicated on our plan; eight rectangular basins lie along its course, but the purpose of it is not clear.

  • It is of irregular shape, and occupies a large part of a block, having streets on three sides; on the north side it is bounded by the house of Siricus.

  • A similar pillar, which formerly stood at the right, had thin slabs of stone on three sides.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "three 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:
    freshman year; three and; three arches; three batteries; three books; three cases; three colours; three crowns; three cups; three days; three equal; three fathom; three fingers; three hundred and fifty; three hundred and thirty; three hundred thousand men; three kingdoms; three lions; three members; three others; three ounces; three quarters; three seconds; three times; three ways; three witnesses