Sentence examples for put it by from inspiring English sources

"put it by" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
It means "to set something aside for later consideration or use," and is often used as an alternative to the phrase "put it aside." For example, "I don't want to make a decision right now, so let's put it by until I have more time to think it through."

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Then just put it by your bed so when you wake up, its hydrating electrolytes can bring you back to life.

Put it by your bedside and open it at random.

She brought the pot into the studio and put it by my bedside.

Or, as he put it: "By chance, one day, I met the building.

As he later put it, by the time he was fit "the bar was raised".

He was doomed, as a colleague put it, by "his absolute lack of charisma".

You "release wealth," as they often put it, by commanding it to come to you.

I put it by the phone and I started to call.

A thicket of poets "ensnared" (as Andrew Marvell put it) by flowers gets original treatment too.

I thought I would carry it downstairs and put it by our Christmas tree.

Mr. Heaney was enraptured, as he once put it, by "words as bearers of history and mystery".

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