How to Use sideshow in a Sentence

sideshow

noun

• Their disagreement is just a political sideshow when compared to the real issues at hand.
• The sideshow over, things went bad for the Reds on the field.
  — John Fay, The Enquirer, 30 Aug. 2020
• Some of the best menu items were not the main show, but the sideshows.
  — Rand Richards Cooper, courant.com, 25 Oct. 2019
• 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
• Read more: Stormy Daniels, star of the latest Trump sideshow, took her act to a strip club.
  — Mark Berman, Washington Post, 14 Feb. 2018
• 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
• Three weeks ago, a man was killed in what residents said was a sideshow in the Bayview.
  — Anna Bauman, SFChronicle.com, 28 Oct. 2019
• Welcome to the sideshow, a street party with car stunts that has Bay Area roots.
  — Mekado Murphy, New York Times, 1 May 2020
• But what was once a sideshow risks becoming the main event.
  — Sadanand Dhume, WSJ, 27 June 2019
• The sideshow: In the bottom of the seventh, Bogaerts came on to hit with runners at the corners.
  — Julian McWilliams, BostonGlobe.com, 10 July 2019
• And all those sideshows that the senator wants to bring up have nothing to do with that.
  — CBS News, 25 Feb. 2020
• Doubles, even with Mirza in the mix, remains a sideshow to singles.
  — Christopher Clarey, New York Times, 27 Jan. 2023
• As a result, Van Halen has become a band of four instead of a sideshow of one.
  — The Enquirer, 7 Oct. 2020
• The best advice for Cubs fans is to sit back and enjoy the circus, with all its sideshows and high-wire acts.
  — Paul Sullivan, chicagotribune.com, 8 June 2019
• Harden has a lot to do with that, but Westbrook isn’t a sideshow in Houston.
  — Duane Rankin, azcentral, 21 Jan. 2020
• 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
• This whole affair just reeks of a circus and a media sideshow.
  — Fox News, 21 Sep. 2018
• The story of Rittenhouse's legal team, from the very start, became a sideshow to the case.
  — Bruce Vielmetti, USA TODAY, 22 Aug. 2021
• Don’t be consumed by the sideshow at the end of the game with Iowa coach Kirk Ferentz calling a string of timeouts.
  — Star Tribune, 13 Nov. 2020
• But by playing it for laughs, the reading made the report into a sideshow.
  — Emily Dreyfuss, WIRED, 25 June 2019
• 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
• By the numbers, the electric airplanes on display were a sideshow.
  — Michael J. Coren, Quartz, 22 June 2019
• Police have been cracking down on the sideshow events in recent years.
  — Karen Kucher, San Diego Union-Tribune, 3 May 2024
• The music is loud, the sideshows are unnecessary and the uniforms are awful.
  — Los Angeles Times, 20 July 2024
• That makes Stormy Daniels, however riveting her testimony, a sideshow at the trial.
  — Robin Abcarian, The Mercury News, 17 May 2024

Last Updated: 16 Nov 2024