Sentence examples for draw aside from inspiring English sources

"draw aside" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
It means to move something to the side or to step to the side in order to make way for someone or something. Example: The curtains were drawn aside to reveal the beautiful garden outside.

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But on occasion, before critical meetings, you would see him draw aside and mumble prayers. 5.

A set of unremarkable photographs hanging behind sheer curtains that you have to draw aside to see is a dull play on photography and voyeurism.

They can either be moved at night, when passenger traffic is strongly reduced or they have to draw aside onto bypass tracks when faster passenger trains are going to overtake them.

Draw aside the crimson velvet curtains of the side alcoves, and you expose ever more striking things: human genitalia in extreme stages of disease modelled in flesh-coloured wax featuring real pubic hair, for instance.

The big draw, aside from low price, is the hinged base that keeps your device's power cord in place.

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He put the drawing aside.

He then politely asked Stevick for assistance in drawing aside the cover of planks.

The problem with these draws, aside from being unsportsmanlike, is that spectators are disappointed.

ROME — The Vatican drew aside, for a brief and puzzling moment, the thick veil that covers its internal business.

Occasionally, a curtain might have been used to augment the scenic effect, being drawn aside to permit upstage action.

Turley paces nervously, drawing aside the curtains on the room's only window, checking the peephole at the door.

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