How to use "side" in a sentence

I lie down, put my hands in two holes on the far edge of the boulder and push my legs over the opposite side to jump down.

As most of my weight pushes on one side of the boulder, it makes a strange sound

The boulder then hits my right arm and traps my hand against the right side of the canyon.

Kristi agreed and they parked by the side of the road for the night.

On the other side is a living room

11.32 am Finally, I feel the knife hit rock on the other side of my arm

My body crashes from one side of the canyon wall to the other

I get lost up a side canyon and have to turn round

As I said this, the walls closed over the side windows and Captain Nemo walked in.

We went under the ice and came out on the other side

It was some of our men on the far side of the hole, and there was blood all over them

Why don't you wait at the side of the factory? It's almost lunch-time, and she'll probably come out.' So I did.

There is no other alternative; for continuing the government is acquiescence on one side or the other.

Why should there not be a patient confidence in the ultimate justice of the people? Is there any better or equal hope in the world? In our present differences is either party without faith of being in the right? If the Almighty Ruler of Nations, with his eternal truth and justice, be on your side of the North, or on yours of the South, that truth and that justice will surely prevail, by the judgment of this great tribunal, the American people.

If it were admitted that you who are dissatisfied hold the right side in the dispute, there still is no single good reason for precipitate action

Values have shrunk to fantastic levels; taxes have risen; our ability to pay has fallen; government of all kinds is faced by serious curtailment of income; the means of exchange are frozen in the currents of trade; the withered leaves of industrial enterprise lie on every side; farmers find no markets for their produce; and the savings of many years in thousands of families are gone

Buck's Row was a quiet, narrow road with warehouses on one side and some small houses or cottages on the other

There was a front door to the club in Berner Street, and a side door in Dutfield's Yard that opened into the club kitchen

But inside the yard light came from the club windows, the club office, and from some cottages on the other side of the yard.

Schwartz did not want any trouble so he crossed to the other side of the street

It was tied on the left side and was pulled very tight

His gloomy paintings of murder scenes were part of his vision as an artist: he liked to paint the dark, squalid side of life

Just as he reached the side of the bishop's bed, the moon came out from behind a cloud and filled the room with light

Not noticing Jean Valjean sitting by the side of the path, he threw the coin higher into the air

She did not smile, and lines of sadness ran down the side of her pale cheeks

Everybody stood to one side to let him pass as he made his way towards the door

On the other side of the river, he stopped at the entrance of a high-walled alley and looked back

He could see four figures in the distance on the far side of the bridge.

On one side of him was a tall building, all its doors and windows covered with metal bars

On the other side there was a wall, higher than a tree

There was a tree on the other side of the wall, and Valjean carried Cosette down into its branches just as the soldiers arrived.

'He must be here!' He heard Javert's voice clearly on the other side of the wall

Its only furniture was a chair, an old table, some cracked dishes and two dirty beds, one on each side of a fireplace

With surprising speed, he pushed the table and chair to one side and ran to the window

On one side of him was the field of battle

On the other side was the low barricade, behind which hundreds of soldiers waited for rebels trying to escape

With Marius in the back seat, Valjean and Javert side by side in the front, the carriage drove off quickly through the dark and strangely empty streets of Paris.

Cosette and Marius fell to their knees on either side of him, holding back their tears

Nick walks to the bins and looks around them; on the other side is the sister of the defendant

At the side of your bed, there is a table, and on the table there is a small statue

I told them I had a pain in my side, and the doctors thought it was my appendix

And an important detail, a very important detail, is that you're in the wrong side of the confessional

Outside they can see the renovation work: there is scaffolding on the face of the old building, a new wall on the side of it, and three or four workmen are sitting on a bench eating lunch.

Now, not many people come to this side of the forest at this time of the year, but if you see someone you just put the gun down gently in a bush or under some leaves

On the other side of the valley, the white waters of a waterfall flowed over the rocks

He was swimming toward her with a dolphin on either side of him.

Through a side entrance into a tower block

We needed to be sure that you would be on our side

People who still have relations on the other side, and who might risk trying to leave."

People were coming and going from the main entrance, like last time, but the narrow passageway down the side looked dark and empty

He slowed down the car and we stopped by the side of the road

Beautiful high bushes covered with bright red flowers stood on either side of us.

Comfortable chairs stood on either side of a great open fireplace

'Mr de Winter said you would rather be on this side of the house

I was in a corridor with doors on either side

The path ran down into a little valley, by the side of a stream.

On either side of the narrow path stood high graceful bushes covered with flowers

Mrs Danvers' hand fell back to her side.

I lay on my side, watching it

When I came to the other side, I saw Ben

Tina could see only the side of his face, but she gasped in painful recognition.

In the dream, Danny was standing at the edge of a bottomless gorge, and Tina was on the far side, opposite him, looking across the immense gulf

It was an easel on one side and a chalkboard on the other

Each narrow gallery consisted of a three-foot-wide aisle with a low railing on one side and a curving row of raised, plushly padded booths on the other side

Helen Mainway, Charlie's wife, sat at his left side

Beside the front walkway and then along the side of the house, low-voltage landscape lighting revealed the path.

Then a man dressed entirely in black from head to foot, his face hidden by shadows, appeared at the far side of the pit and began to shovel dirt into it

He had adored only the showgirl, the dancer, the cute little thing that other men coveted, the pretty woman whose presence at his side had inflated his ego

After she had driven only a block, she was forced to pull to the side of the road

They sat side by side on the sofa in front of the fireplace, watching the flames and the occasional bursts of orange sparks, listening to music, and talking, talking, talking

A three-sided, fan-shaped tent had been erected on the back lawn, to one side of the sixty-foot pool, with the open side facing the house

These days, you're crazy if you open your door without knowing exactly who's on the other side of it."

Vince bent forward, gagging, and Elliot slammed the butt of the gun against the side of his head, with a sound like stone meeting stone.

She stumbled and fell into the side of the sports car, banging her knee painfully.

Elliot pushed her away from the Mercedes so he could open the door on the passenger side

When she was in the car, he shut her door, ran to the driver's side, and climbed in behind the steering wheel.

Tina looked out the side window, watching in disbelief as the flames spread from the shattered garage roof to the main roof of the house, long tongues of lambent fire, licking, licking, hungry, bloodred in the last orange light of the afternoon.

Too late, he saw the sign at the fourth intersection - NOT A THROUGH STREET - but they were already around the corner and headed down the narrow dead end, with nothing but a row of ten modest stucco houses on each side.

She smiled at her bewildered host and went to the passenger side of the car while Elliot opened the driver's door.

"Anyway," Tina said, "I'm glad I've got you on my side."

As he got out of the car, his attention was drawn to a window on the side of the motor home next to which he had parked

One thing for sure, he's definitely not on our side

They put their heads down and scurried past the front of the diner, around the side, through the purple light under the single mercury-vapor lamp, and into the deep shadows behind the building.

Willis Bruckster quickly knelt at Michael Evans's side and took his pulse as if he expected to find one

He didn't hear a shot, but a bullet shattered the rear side window behind his head and slammed into the back of the front seat, spraying gummy bits of safety glass through the car.

She turned the map over and tried the other side of it.

He turned it around, so the face of it was on the wrong side - the palm side - of his finger

"Well," Elliot said, "I happen to believe that individuals are more apt to act responsibly and morally than institutions ever do, which at least puts us on the side of justice

On each side of the gate, a nine-foot-high fence, angled outward at the top and strung with wickedly sharp coils of razor wire, stretched out of sight into the forest

They came over the rise onto a plateau, an enormous shelf carved in the side of the mountain.

Two hundred yards away, at the far side of the concrete field, stood a one-story windowless building, approximately a hundred feet long, with a steeply pitched slate roof.

Jeeps, Land Rovers, and other four-wheel drive vehicles - eight in all - were lined up in front of the low building, side-by-side in the falling snow.

The intersecting hall began directly in front of them, across from the guardroom, and bored at least four hundred feet into the mountain; a long row of doors waited on each side of it, and other corridors opened off it as well.

But Tina and Elliot didn't need the computer's authorization to use the elevator; not with Danny on their side

This level was the same size as the one on which they entered the complex: more than four hundred feet on one side, and more than one hundred feet on the other

Tina moved to Elliot's side

He stared at her through the side rails of the bed.

He thrust it between two of the side rails, and he opened his small weak hand beseechingly, reaching for love, trying desperately to touch her.

"And there's always the possibility I'll misjudge the terrain in the dark and ram us right into the side of a hill."

For as long as he could remember, he had been fascinated with death, with the mechanics and the meaning of it, and he had longed to know what it was like on the other side - without, of course, wishing to commit himself to a one-way journey there

Each time that he personally killed someone, he felt as if he were establishing another link to the world beyond this one; and he hoped, once he had made enough of those linkages, that he would be rewarded with a vision from the other side

"Who's in the helicopter?" Danny asked, staring at it through the side window of the Explorer.

Alexander watched death rushing up at him and knew his curiosity about the other side would shortly be satisfied.

'In the kitchen - at the other side of the house.'

'The kitchen is on the other side of the house,' I said

Inspector Slack told me to return to the other side of the room

We went up the path until we came to a new place where it looked as though someone had left the path on the right-hand side

Then I saw Lawrence Redding on the other side of the road, and told Mr Cherabim that I had to speak to him.

He remained standing on one side of the pit that the Thing had made for itself, staring at its strange appearance and thinking that there might be some intelligent design in its shape

A large part of the cylinder had now been uncovered, although its lower end was still hidden in the side of the pit.

I half-turned, still keeping my eyes on the cylinder, from which other tentacles were now coming out, and began pushing my way back from the side of the pit

I found myself alone, and saw the people on the other side of the pit running off

I ran because I realized that soon everyone on this side of the hill would be moving

In another moment we were clear of the smoke and the noise, and moving quickly down the opposite side of Maybury Hill.

Then suddenly, the trees in the wood ahead of me were pushed to the side and a second enormous tripod appeared, rushing, as it seemed, straight towards me

The view opened out until, on one side, it reached to the houses around Woking Station, and on the other, to the burnt woods of Byfleet

The headless machine marched on, swinging from side to side

All around him - in the rooms below, in the houses on each side and across the road, and all across London - people were rubbing their eyes and opening windows to stare out and ask questions, and getting dressed quickly as the first breath of the coming storm of fear blew through the streets

When he saw them, the curate made a frightened noise and began running, but I knew it was no good running from a Martian and I crawled into some bushes by the side of the road

Then they began to look for a chance of getting to the right side of the road

They were taken through Barnet and were more than a kilometer beyond the centre of the town before they could fight their way across to the other side of the road.

He got to his feet and saw to the right, less than a hundred metres away, the warship cutting through the water at full speed, throwing enormous waves out on either side.

Some water came over the side of the steamboat and blinded my brother for a moment

This hit its left side and sent up a black cloud that the ship moved away from

Everyone moved to the side of the steamboat and looked to the west, but smoke rose and blocked the sun

Once again, on the Surrey side, there was black dust that had once been smoke, and some dead bodies - a number of them near the approach to the station.

By chance the kitchen had escaped and now stood buried under earth and bricks, covered on every side except towards the cylinder

The cylinder was already open in the centre of the pit, and on the furthest side one of the great fighting-machines, empty now, stood tall and unmoving against the evening sky

The Martians had taken away the digging-machine and apart from the fighting-machine on the far side of the pit and a building- machine that was busy out of my sight, the pit was empty

It was like a black snake moving its head from side to side.

'Ulla, ulla, ulla,' cried that inhuman note - great waves of sound sweeping down the broad, sunlit road, between the tall buildings on each side

The voice grew stronger and stronger, although I could see nothing above the roof-tops on the north side of the park except some smoke to the north-west.

The line on the London side of Woking station was still being repaired, so I got off the train at Byfleet and took the road to Maybury, past the place where I had seen the Martian fighting- machine in the thunderstorm

You look at the other man and say, 'What are you doing with your side of the tent?'

'Don't pull on your side!' you shout.

I remember that George once saw a young couple who were walking by the side of the river

You put them into special holes in the side of the boat

He went to sit at the other side of the boat, alone.

Please use the side door.'

She had wanted this thing for a long time, and yet one side of her said that accepting it was wrong

She could not discuss the whole business with Mercy, and James always took Mercy's side

'I like a quiet life, and recently I had such an adventure that I don't want another one for years.' As we ate breakfast side by side like two old friends, I told Miss Halcombe about the woman in white

She came to my side and said, 'Sir Percival, I must leave

'A very aristocratic family! Especially on his mother's side!' She stopped speaking suddenly, as if she had said something she did not mean to say.