How to Use choose sides in a Sentence

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• My child should not have to choose sides.
  — Jann Blackstone, Boston Herald, 18 Jan. 2026
• The time for posturing is over; the time to choose sides has come.
  — Aja Romano, Vox, 12 June 2024
• There are ways in which you’re constantly forced to choose sides.
  — New York Times, 15 Oct. 2020
• As his dread and fear reach a fever pitch, we are uneasily forced to choose sides.
  — Jenny Offill, The New York Review of Books, 3 Nov. 2020
• Like in the Cold War, other countries will be forced to choose sides.
  — Angela Dewan, CNN, 1 Nov. 2020
• During the civil war, Cregan Stark will be asked to choose sides.
  — Josh St. Clair, Men's Health, 22 Aug. 2022
• Eat a coney dog downtown One thing to know — Detroiters choose sides.
  — Susan Selasky, Detroit Free Press, 20 Apr. 2024
• The current system forces people to choose sides — not find solutions.
  — Dana Afana, Detroit Free Press, 4 Dec. 2024
• Now, a political firestorm over the bank's hometown of Hong Kong could force the bank to choose sides.
  — Michelle Toh, CNN, 9 July 2020
• Neither has the votes to win at this stage, and Republicans are beginning to choose sides.
  — Elizabeth Robinson, NBC News, 6 Oct. 2023
• The redrawn line dividing east from west was compelling Ukraine and other nations to choose sides.
  — Frank Costigliola, Foreign Affairs, 27 Jan. 2023
• But that communication style inevitably forces your children to choose sides, and no caregiver should want that.
  — Washington Post, 9 Feb. 2022
• Goaded by America to choose sides, many key emerging markets may elect to work with China.
  — Ben Harburg, Fortune, 2 Nov. 2022
• Peyton Manning, who didn’t choose sides in the sale process, will also be looking for an advisory role with the team.
  — Ben Volin, BostonGlobe.com, 11 June 2022
• The good news is that most brands don’t need to choose sides on emotionally divisive or polarizing topics.
  — Rytis Lauris, Forbes, 22 Nov. 2024
• Unlike Washington, Beijing is not asking leaders to choose sides.
  — David Pierson, New York Times, 9 Dec. 2022
• Which, in turn, could put Batman in a difficult position of having to choose sides, even if only temporarily.
  — Mark Hughes, Forbes, 30 Nov. 2024
• And adopting a Cold War–style, zero-sum framework, in which the rest of the world is forced to choose sides, only reinforces this dynamic.
  — Blaise Malley, The New Republic, 5 Oct. 2023
• Republicans said that under the Democrats’ plan the state would abandon neutrality and choose sides in labor disputes.
  — Stephen Singer, Hartford Courant, 13 Apr. 2022
• That position, that speech, may be hateful or offensive to some or many people, but the government does not get to pick and choose sides as to the speech that it is required to protect.
  — Lisa Deaderick, San Diego Union-Tribune, 12 May 2024
• And the one thing that has been quite consistent in Indian foreign policy is the refusal to pick and choose sides in ways that end up alienating the other.
  — Foreign Affairs, 4 Mar. 2024
• This feared doomsday scenario, more than anything else, motivates Qatar to try to find a solution before the peacemaker is drawn into a war and forced to choose sides.
  — Allen Fromherz / Made By History, TIME, 30 Sep. 2024
• Lincoln’s responding call for troops made plain that there would be a war and that Tennessee, like other fence-sitting Upper South states, would have to choose sides.
  — Daniel Feller, The Conversation, 20 Apr. 2023
• Donna endearingly struggled to choose sides in the matchup, eventually settling for a split Chiefs-Eagles jacket that donned equal support for both of her boys.
  — Sean Neumann, Peoplemag, 6 Dec. 2023
• The discovery of an underground civilization on Sask-E forces Destry to choose sides in a conflict that alters her beloved planet’s future.
  — Amy Brady, Scientific American, 12 Dec. 2022
• However, the Tesla CEO has been keen not to choose sides in the conflict and refuses to have his technology used as an asset in the conflict.
  — Byeleanor Pringle, Fortune, 8 Sep. 2023
• The best piece of advice for Washington is not to engage, particularly in a way that forces it to choose sides and add yet another layer of complexity to the ongoing fissures.
  — Aaron David Miller, Foreign Affairs, 24 July 2017
• Many Israelis and Palestinians are equally convinced that their victimhood justifies extreme and inhumane measures, and the rest of the world feels compelled to choose sides.
  — Shivshankar Menon, Foreign Affairs, 16 Nov. 2023
• And like it or not, the people who run sports have been forced to choose sides in the ongoing public debate about vaccinations and pressed on how to handle a pandemic that waxes and wanes with maddening unpredictability.
  — oregonlive, 6 Jan. 2022
• Unlike organizations that choose sides, Alexander says The Carter Center is focused on the integrity of elections.
  — Brian Unger, CBS News, 10 Feb. 2026