to one side
idiom
1
: in a direction that is away from or beyond the center of something
The dog tilted its head to one side.
2
: to a place that is on one side : aside
He put his luggage to one side.
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Flipping your hair over to one side can create a different gradation in length.
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Omenaa Boakye, InStyle, 31 Dec. 2025
Beginning Sunday, residents will be expected to move their cars to one side of the street, alternating back and forth weekly into April.
—Frederick Melo, Twin Cities, 29 Dec. 2025
Push everything to one side of the pan to make room for the eggs.
—Robin Miller, AZCentral.com, 24 Dec. 2025
Putting to one side any uglier consequences of illness or less fixable emotional wounds, the film follows suit — though there’s only a glancing sense here that death is for life, not just for Christmas.
—Guy Lodge, Variety, 11 Dec. 2025
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Omenaa Boakye, InStyle, 31 Dec. 2025
Beginning Sunday, residents will be expected to move their cars to one side of the street, alternating back and forth weekly into April.
—Frederick Melo, Twin Cities, 29 Dec. 2025
Push everything to one side of the pan to make room for the eggs.
—Robin Miller, AZCentral.com, 24 Dec. 2025
Putting to one side any uglier consequences of illness or less fixable emotional wounds, the film follows suit — though there’s only a glancing sense here that death is for life, not just for Christmas.
—Guy Lodge, Variety, 11 Dec. 2025
See All Example Sentences for to one side
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“To one side.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/to%20one%20side. Accessed 9 Jan. 2026.
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