this side of

Example Sentences

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Only Byrne’s flashes of humor and desperately flailing humanity keep her on this side of monstrous.

From Los Angeles Times

“Half a century later,” Ms. Caroli writes, “she described the indelible effect of her first exposure to slum housing. ‘The steam and noise and smell and congestion were too much for one new to this side of life.’”

From The Wall Street Journal

The story on this side of the Atlantic is, to be generous, a mixed bag.

From The Wall Street Journal

He promiscuously puts his name on everything this side of the moon, and I probably shouldn’t even mention that particular satellite, lest he get ideas.

From Slate

From this side of the building it was like everything, from the walls to the floors and everything in between, was painted in gold.

From Literature