Below you will find example sentences with "opposite side". The examples show how this phrase is used in natural context and which words often surround it.

Opposite Side in a sentence

Corpus data

  • Displayed example sentences: 20
  • Discovered as a combination around: opposite
  • Corpus frequency in the collocation scan: 12
  • Phrase length: 2 words
  • Average sentence length: 32.3 words

Words in this phrase

opposite side

Meanings of words in this phrase

  • opposite can mean: Located directly across from something else, or from each other. Frequent word
  • side can mean: A bounding straight edge of a two-dimensional shape. Common word

Sentence profile

  • Phrase position: 0 start, 10 middle, 10 end
  • Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations

Usage patterns

These patterns show short text windows around the phrase in the example sentences:

on the opposite side 4× on the opposite side of the 2× also the opposite side of the 1× and the opposite side is a 1× by the opposite side wall before 1× from the opposite side and many 1× from the opposite side three quarters 1× hitting the opposite side wall with 1×

Sentence openings and endings

Common sentence openings:

a cleaver of 1× a three wall 1× an americans with 1× and of course 1× arcsin can be 1× because the gravitational 1×

Common sentence endings:

the opposite side 5× 35 feet back 1× at least once 1× balanced transmission line 1× finishing terminal swing 1× hitting the floor 1×

Context words

These words often appear near this phrase in the example sentences:

wall 9× ball 6× length 4× bounces 3× way 3× transmission 3× line 3× balanced 3× front 3× moon 3× earth 3× usually 2×

Related phrases

side effects opposite direction dark side side wall either side left side side dish northwest side funny side passenger side

Phrases around this combination

Other phrases discovered around opposite:

opposite effect 5×

Just before it in the phrase index:

opposite effect opposite direction opportunity presents opinion polls operator license operations manager

Just after it in the phrase index:

opposite sides opposition leader opposition leaders opposition mps opposition parties opposition party

Other phrases with the same pattern

Same start:

opposite direction opposite effect opposite sides

Same ending:

dark side either side left side northwest side funny side passenger side

Corpus analysis

  • The phrase "opposite side" has 2 words and usually appears in the middle in these examples. The average sentence has 32.3 words and is mostly made up of statements.
  • Around this phrase, patterns and context words such as on the opposite side, on the opposite side of the, wall, ball and length stand out.
  • In the phrase index, this combination connects with side effects, opposite direction, dark side and opposite effect, linking the page to nearby combinations.

Example types with opposite side

This selection groups the examples by length and sentence type, making usage of the full phrase easier to scan:

Short example sentences

One side of the parallelogram is the chord, and the opposite side is a tangent to the parabola. (18 words)

Herc would play the break on one side of the turntable and subsequently duplicate the same segment on the opposite side. (21 words)

When stone-pelting started from the opposite side and many others from our side retaliated, I too joined in,” he said. (21 words)

Longer example sentences

Cut the lemon almost but not wholly across about a quarter of the way up; repeat on the opposite side halfway up, and finally from the opposite side three-quarters of the way up: the lemon should still be more or less intact when you put it in the basin. (50 words)

It is a tailored garment that is wrapped around the wearer's body at the natural waist (between the lowest rib and the hip) starting from one side (usually the wearer's left), around the front and back and across the front again to the opposite side. (47 words)

Except for the initial serve, the rules are generally as follows: players must allow a ball played toward them to bounce one time on their side of the table, and must return it so that it bounces on the opposite side at least once. (44 words)

Example sentences (20)

The ball then bounces from the side wall all the way to the opposite side wall, usually traveling over the top of the opponent, hitting the opposite side wall with spin.

Cut the lemon almost but not wholly across about a quarter of the way up; repeat on the opposite side halfway up, and finally from the opposite side three-quarters of the way up: the lemon should still be more or less intact when you put it in the basin.

The transmission line is a balanced type with the input at one end and on one side only of the balanced transmission line and the output at the opposite end is also the opposite side of the balanced transmission line.

Conclude this part with slow side bends: stand with your feet hip-width apart, raise one arm overhead, and bend gently to the opposite side, holding for 15-20 seconds on each side.

It is the opposite story on the opposite side of the ball as UVA leads conference in scoring defense only allowing 52 points per game.

Herc would play the break on one side of the turntable and subsequently duplicate the same segment on the opposite side.

And, of course, each of the two sides will think that the fools are on the opposite side, not on their own side, of Trump’s campaign.

An Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) certified lift will be on one side of the observation deck with stairs on the opposite side.

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When stone-pelting started from the opposite side and many others from our side retaliated, I too joined in,” he said.

A cleaver of a triangle is a segment from the midpoint of a side of a triangle to the opposite side such that the perimeter is divided into two equal lengths.

Arcsin can be used to calculate an angle from the length of the opposite side and the length of the hypotenuse. : Arccos can be used to calculate an angle from the length of the adjacent side and the length of the hypotenuse.

A 'three wall boast' has the ball hit at a side wall such that the ball hits the front wall followed by the opposite side wall before finally hitting the floor.

Because the gravitational field created by the Moon weakens with distance from the Moon, it exerts a slightly stronger than average force on the side of the Earth facing the Moon, and a slightly weaker force on the opposite side.

Except for the initial serve, the rules are generally as follows: players must allow a ball played toward them to bounce one time on their side of the table, and must return it so that it bounces on the opposite side at least once.

Following toe-off and the beginning of the initial swing of one side, there is a flight phase where neither extremity is in contact with the ground due to the opposite side finishing terminal swing.

It is a tailored garment that is wrapped around the wearer's body at the natural waist (between the lowest rib and the hip) starting from one side (usually the wearer's left), around the front and back and across the front again to the opposite side.

One side of the parallelogram is the chord, and the opposite side is a tangent to the parabola.

Sidehill gougers are North American folkloric creatures adapted to living on hillsides by having legs on one side of their body shorter than the legs on the opposite side.

The ball bounces quickly off the side wall, then strikes the floor and then the opposite side wall about 30–35 feet back.

The first measurement was taken from the Earth on one side of the Sun, and the second was taken half a year later, when the Earth was on the opposite side of the Sun.

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