How to Use sidelight in a Sentence

sidelight

noun

• The book includes some amusing sidelights about his childhood.
• Her mother had placed a hat with a wide brim on a wall sidelight.
  — Jacques Kelly, baltimoresun.com, 31 Oct. 2017
• Wide sidelights bracket the front door of the three-story villa.
  — Marcelle Sussman Fischler, New York Times, 11 Jan. 2017
• The dispute over the Republicans' attorneys was a sidelight to a larger fight over where to put the lines.
  — Patrick Marley, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 27 Jan. 2022
• As a historical sidelight, it might be noted that sometimes spring, even early spring, is and can be very warm.
  — Washington Post, 21 Mar. 2021
• The basic cabinet module, with two mirrored doors and sidelights, can be customized to suit your own needs.
  — Rebecca Winzenried, ELLE Decor, 5 July 2012
• The craft is a sidelight for Crawford, 43, a cybersecurity analyst who works for the Army at Fort Meade.
  — Mike Klingaman, baltimoresun.com, 19 Aug. 2021
• That historical sidelight set the stage for Donaldina Cameron’s life work.
  — Judy Peterson, The Mercury News, 25 May 2017
• Magnetic sidelight blockers, which ship in the kit, will turn it into a fully immersive heads-up display.
  — Lauren Goode, WIRED, 11 Oct. 2022
• This is simply a fun little sidelight, Manziel insisted, giving him a chance to take a few snaps in an intriguing new venture and perhaps help some up-and-comers get a look from the NFL.
  — Paul Newberry, ajc, 13 Feb. 2021
• Modern touches include the pivoting front door with glass sidelights.
  — Lauren Beale, latimes.com, 26 May 2017
• American Oversight's records lawsuits are a sidelight to a broader legal fight over Gableman's work.
  — Patrick Marley, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 31 Dec. 2021
• This big arch has two sidelight arches that display pieces from Denha’s sculpture collection.
  — Judy Rose, Detroit Free Press, 18 Apr. 2020
• As a sidelight, Dr. Sauvage and Dr. Stoddart used their techniques to create molecules that twisted in complicated knots.
  — Kenneth Chang and Sewell Chan, New York Times, 5 Oct. 2016
• One of the more remarkable sidelights to this story is something said by former Browns general manager Mike Lombardi.
  — Terry Pluto, cleveland.com, 2 Feb. 2018
• The front door was painted bright turquoise — Ms. Negrin’s favorite color — and the plain-glass sidelights that allowed passers-by to see into the house were replaced with bottle-glass windows that offer privacy without blocking sunlight.
  — Tim McKeough, New York Times, 14 May 2018
• The front door with sidelights, transom, and a half-moon window over the second floor opens into the spacious foyer with an inlaid hardwood floor, offering a preview of the luxurious interior.
  — Joan Walden, courant.com, 20 July 2017
• Regardless, the wrangling over obscure parliamentary proceedings remains a sidelight to the larger dynamic of the Build Back Better Act.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 27 Oct. 2021
• The exterior walls were all translucent, allowing for ample sidelight.
  — Dana Goodyear, The New Yorker, 5 Oct. 2020
• Environmental regulations are hardly the only partisan sidelight in the debate over how to respond to the Zika virus.
  — David M. Herszenhorn, New York Times, 24 May 2016
• The plots are reasonably complicated, draw on McManus' outdoor experiences and are salted with quirky sidelights.
  — Bill Monroe, OregonLive.com, 13 Apr. 2018
• Others see performance as a sidelight to other professional careers.
  — Jane Wooldridge, miamiherald, 22 Apr. 2018
• An interesting historical sidelight: Selden's father, Henry, was Abraham Lincoln's first choice to be his vice presidential running mate during the 1864 election.
  — Tony Long, WIRED, 5 Nov. 2007
• The variously slinky and driven choreography features such sidelights as pratfalls, teasingly competitive back-and-forth accents, sassy shoulder shimmies and snappy hand jives.
  — Robert Greskovic, WSJ, 19 Nov. 2018

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