How to Use sideshow in a Sentence

sideshow

noun
Definition of sideshownext
  • Their disagreement is just a political sideshow when compared to the real issues at hand.
  • For me, though, the Jimmy-Kim events were the sideshow in this episode.
    — Andy Meek, BGR, 28 Apr. 2022
  • In between all of this, there were spinoffs and sideshows.
    — Borys Kit, The Hollywood Reporter, 22 Dec. 2023
  • Paul has gone from sideshow to one of the top draws in combat sports.
    — Jace Evans, USA TODAY, 5 Aug. 2023
  • Now the dust has settled, and the numbers are in for those who put the season’s clothes over the sideshows.
    — Luke Leitch, Vogue, 3 July 2023
  • Trump’s lawyers, that the case is not all that serious, a sideshow.
    — Andrea Bernstein, The New Yorker, 29 Sep. 2021
  • The Black radicals of his day the Judge dismissed as a sideshow.
    — New York Times, 14 July 2021
  • With so many sideshows, who needs a tight football match?
    — Tatiana Siegel, Variety, 5 Feb. 2024
  • Doubles, even with Mirza in the mix, remains a sideshow to singles.
    — Christopher Clarey, New York Times, 27 Jan. 2023
  • Become a Subscriber But the decline of Twitter, and the race to replace it, is in a sense a sideshow.
    — Caroline Mimbs Nyce, The Atlantic, 21 Dec. 2023
  • The story of Rittenhouse's legal team, from the very start, became a sideshow to the case.
    — Bruce Vielmetti, USA TODAY, 22 Aug. 2021
  • Not as a hobby, not as a sideshow, but to become one of the best ever in that second sport.
    — Scooby Axson, USA TODAY, 26 Oct. 2021
  • The Bears are an NFL afterthought this season, a 10-loss sideshow.
    — The Enquirer, 30 Dec. 2021
  • The fight with the National Archives over his papers is a sideshow.
    — Matthew Continetti, National Review, 28 Jan. 2023
  • As decades pass, the sideshow comes to define and challenge her sense of identity.
    — oregonlive, 27 Oct. 2021
  • In that context Saturday’s act might end up more of a sideshow than main event.
    — Noah Robertson, The Christian Science Monitor, 26 June 2023
  • But the official start of the transition has turned all that into a sideshow.
    — John Cassidy, The New Yorker, 24 Nov. 2020
  • On the Facebook page, these reports were regarded by some as a sideshow.
    — Rebecca Panovka, Harper's Magazine, 9 Feb. 2024
  • That’s the mark of a good team, but the great ones know better than to mistake a sideshow for a classic rivalry against an old foe.
    — Joseph Goodman | Jgoodman@al.com, al, 9 Oct. 2022
  • The athletic feats are almost a sideshow in this series.
    — Graham Averill, Outside Online, 12 July 2022
  • Television ‘The Bachelor’ made a ‘sideshow’ of its first Black star.
    — Christi Carras, Los Angeles Times, 31 Aug. 2023
  • Rashod Bateman’s first big showdown of his second season might end up as more of a sideshow.
    — Jonas Shaffer, Baltimore Sun, 10 Sep. 2022
  • The race was seen as the equivalent of a glamorous boy versus girl duel and an equine sideshow to the women’s rights movement.
    — Eduardo Medina, New York Times, 25 Aug. 2023
  • The other group treats the need for digital transformation as a sideshow of the status quo.
    — Steve Denning, Forbes, 13 Sep. 2021
  • But of course, all of this is just a sideshow compared to Amazon’s effect on bookselling and all other forms of retail.
    — Cory Doctorow, WIRED, 7 Sep. 2023
  • If the Bruins keep playing like this, those antics will be remembered as a sideshow act.
    — Matt Porter, BostonGlobe.com, 23 Apr. 2023
  • What a frustrating sideshow for the local TV stations that depend on the game show's high ratings.
    — Brian Stelter, CNN, 21 Aug. 2021
  • The foreign volunteers seemed to be little more than a media sideshow.
    — Seth Harp, Harper’s Magazine , 22 June 2022
  • These screamers can no longer be condescended to, as a quirky sideshow to pop music.
    — Rob Sheffield, Rolling Stone, 9 Feb. 2024
  • In past election cycles, a candidate like Lake would, at best, be a one-news-cycle sideshow.
    — Daniel Strauss, The New Republic, 14 Jan. 2022

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