How to Use sidekick in a Sentence

sidekick

noun
  • What about Art’s sidekick, the creepy, pale girl (played by Amelie McLain)?
    Jordan Moreau, Variety, 28 Oct. 2022
  • Young is the head of the Hawks' snake but Capela has emerged as a productive sidekick.
    Tom Orsborn, San Antonio Express-News, 11 Feb. 2021
  • Anaya played bully Scut Farkas’ sidekick, Grover Dill, in the movie.
    Paris Wolfe, cleveland, 9 Jan. 2023
  • But for better or worse, Yang’s sidekick days seem to be over.
    Meredith Blake, Los Angeles Times, 5 Sep. 2024
  • That’s the basic idea here, tracking the journey of a man who has been a sidekick his whole life and now has to lead the way.
    Brian Tallerico, Vulture, 25 Feb. 2021
  • But before Mario’s beloved dino sidekick can hatch, the movie fades to black.
    Ethan Shanfeld, Variety, 5 Apr. 2023
  • The krewe, which was named for both the shaggy sidekick in the Star Wars movie series and the Uptown superkrewe.
    Doug MacCash | Staff Writer, NOLA.com, 17 Nov. 2020
  • Knoxville will voice Bobby Ray, Elvis’ not-so-smart best friend and sidekick.
    Breanna Bell, Variety, 1 Mar. 2023
  • Quan played Short Round in the Spielberg film, Indy’s sidekick.
    Scottie Andrew, CNN, 10 Jan. 2023
  • That will have to change as his sidekick corner Chidobe Awuzie is out for the season.
    Michael Niziolek, cleveland, 11 Nov. 2022
  • Care and Maintenance Tips Take good care of your robe and your robe will be your trusty sidekick for years to come.
    Patricia Shannon, Southern Living, 6 Aug. 2024
  • Even the name, Dumbarton, sounds like the sidekick to the villain in a Disney movie.
    Peter Hartlaub, San Francisco Chronicle, 29 July 2022
  • And yet Trump won’t even pay the legal bills of Giuliani, his loyal sidekick.
    David Remnick, The New Yorker, 22 Aug. 2023
  • Yoshi turned out to be an excellent and adorable sidekick.
    Kelli Bender, PEOPLE.com, 2 June 2022
  • Every Butch needs a Sundance, though — not a sidekick, but a co-hero, maybe even a bit of a rival.
    Mark Feeney, BostonGlobe.com, 13 June 2022
  • In one of the day’s best demos, Google executive Aparna Pappu showed off the sidekick in Docs.
    Casey Newton, The Verge, 12 May 2023
  • As part of the Milestone superhero universe, Rocket is the sidekick to the hero Icon.
    Christian Holub, EW.com, 10 Feb. 2022
  • If Paul Bunyan had a panfish sidekick, this would be it.
    Paul A. Smith, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 27 May 2022
  • Clayton would morph from mentor to something of a sidekick to the rising star.
    Ryan H. Walsh, BostonGlobe.com, 19 Apr. 2023
  • That left the sidekicks to wrap up another win for yours truly.
    Kris Holt, Forbes, 29 Nov. 2023
  • The catchphrase seems to embody how most people feel about their trusty sidekick that doesn’t leave their sight.
    Taylor Nicioli, CNN, 18 Feb. 2024
  • There's this line in that sort of dream sequence, where Lexi's being interviewed about the show, of the sidekick being the main role.
    Marcus Jones, EW.com, 21 Feb. 2022
  • Spivey is a delight as her sidekick with a masterful side-eye, a drama queen who lives to spill the tea.
    Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 10 Jan. 2024
  • Routines that have marked his shows for ages were intact: A tribute to late sidekick Joe C.
    Brian McCollum, Detroit Free Press, 17 Sep. 2022
  • The Phil Donahue Show, with the host and his lone guest sitting in folding chairs, didn’t have a couch or a band or a sidekick that laughed at his jokes.
    Mike Barnes, The Hollywood Reporter, 19 Aug. 2024
  • But Ellie is suspicious of him and his sidekick James(*) from minute one.
    Alan Sepinwall, Rolling Stone, 5 Mar. 2023
  • Cummings likes the idea of pairing pilots with drone sidekicks.
    IEEE Spectrum, 2 Sep. 2023
  • Think of it as your trusty sidekick for those light to moderate workouts.
    Courtney Leiva, Peoplemag, 20 Nov. 2023
  • In this 2008 film, Igor (John Cusack) decides he’s done being a sidekick and becomes an inventor himself.
    Keith Langston, People.com, 26 Oct. 2024
  • This team has, so far, failed to solve its biggest problem from last season: Curry lacks a bonafide sidekick, the kind of No. 2 that can carry a team if Curry has a bad game (those are more frequent these days) or, heaven forbid, is sidelined.
    Dieter Kurtenbach, The Mercury News, 22 Oct. 2024

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