How to Use onside in a Sentence

onside

adverb or adjective

• Everton have performed at their best with the fans onside, on and off the pitch.
  — SI.com, 18 Apr. 2018
• The flag went up to save his blushes; but VAR would’ve shown that Icardi was in fact onside.
  — SI.com, 23 Dec. 2017
• Vazquez took a pass in stride after attempting to stay onside, and passed the ball past Hamid for what could have been a 1-0 lead.
  — Pat Brennan, The Enquirer, 5 Mar. 2022
• As per the Sun, in an effort to get the fans back onside, Donald wants to appoint club legend Phillips as the new boss.
  — SI.com, 1 May 2018
• And for that to work, Biden has to keep all 50 senators who caucus with Democrats onside.
  — Naomi Lim, Washington Examiner, 24 Feb. 2021
• The replay appeared to show Dunn was onside, but play had restarted, so there will be no V.A.R. on that one.
  — Jeré Longman, New York Times, 28 June 2019
• As Alphonso Davies raced downfield, Kane aligned himself onside in front of the goal.
  — Victoria Hernandez, USA TODAY, 20 Aug. 2023
• The best chance to save Ukraine is through negotiations that bring the world onside.
  — Jeffrey Sachs, CNN, 20 Apr. 2022
• McGraw was deftly able to stay onside and step up to nail the shot, putting his team in a much stronger position.
  — oregonlive, 31 Aug. 2022
• The opening goal for KC came when a winger was left all alone at the top corner of the box, holding his run onside before streaking in to score.
  — Dan Shulman, BostonGlobe.com, 9 Aug. 2019
• Whether that be a surprise onside, a punt block, punt rush, a fake punt, the things that come up every week in the National Football League.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 1 Jan. 2020
• But replays showed Martínez wasn’t offside, having been kept onside by Haris Medunjanin far from the play.
  — Jonathan Tannenwald, Philly.com, 2 June 2018
• Borrero’s threat on the left wing appeared to help keep Bou onside on the goal, Moore playing off him as the other defenders stepped up.
  — Frank Dell'apa, BostonGlobe.com, 18 Mar. 2023
• Of course, the first two were called back by players being onside, and the third was returned for a touchdown by the Bills earlier this season.
  — Dave Hyde, sun-sentinel.com, 17 Nov. 2019
• And onside too is the West, ties with which have been growing ever closer since Modi's election in 2014.
  — Rhea Mogul and Simone McCarthy, CNN, 22 Apr. 2022
• Locadia stayed onside and drew the goalkeeper out of the net, creating an opening in the bottom left corner of the goal.
  — Charlie Goldsmith, The Enquirer, 22 Aug. 2020
• Video replay showed dos Santos onside on both goal-scoring plays.
  — Orlando Mayorquin, USA TODAY, 20 Nov. 2022
• Nashville defender Eric Miller failed to step forward with the rest of his back line, keeping Valeri onside in front of goal.
  — oregonlive, 9 Mar. 2020
• Just Short Falcao broke for goal onside and between two defenders, then leapt athletically to get a toe on a pass.
  — Victor Mather, New York Times, 20 June 2018
• Kuipers let play continue, and Mukiele compounded his mistake by playing an alert Bernat onside by lagging back behind the play in the corner.
  — Rory Smith, New York Times, 18 Aug. 2020
• Kevin Kelley is the Arkansas high school football coach that never punted and always onside-kicked.
  — Paul Daugherty, The Enquirer, 20 May 2021
• The Bengals' sad season was summed up with an incredibly sad onside-kick attempt in Sunday's loss to the Patriots.
  — Jim Reineking, USA TODAY, 16 Dec. 2019
• The Tide's had just 10 returnable kickoffs including that onside try.
  — Michael Casagrande, AL.com, 24 Oct. 2017
• That additional step might not be enough for Freenet, but could keep other shareholders onside.
  — Chris Hughes | Bloomberg, Washington Post, 22 Aug. 2019
• Kevin Stott determined Castellanos was kept onside by Henry Kessler.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 28 Aug. 2021
• Part of that reflects his desire to bring countries outside the richest nations into the fold and keep them onside as alliances splinter and middle powers rise.
  — Rosalind Mathieson, Bloomberg.com, 17 Jan. 2023
• Thankfully, someone is listening: Arsène Wenger, who this week suggested a change to the law so that — as long posited here — if any part of a player’s body is onside, so is the player.
  — Rory Smith, New York Times, 21 Feb. 2020
• The Turkish champion held out until two minutes before halftime but by the it had been forced so deep that Muller was onside as the ball bounced to him four yards out before hooking in Bayern's second.
  — Jonathan Wilson, SI.com, 20 Feb. 2018
• Sarriball didn't get the fans onside, nor did Kepa's cup final antics, Eden Hazard's inevitable exit was no less upsetting, while the transfer ban was the cherry on the foul-tasting cake.
  — SI.com, 4 July 2019
• The move creates a pocket of space between Vela and his two defenders, who have retreated at speed on the right—conveniently rendering Chicharito onside on the left 20 yards away.
  — Grant Wahl, SI.com, 3 May 2018

Last Updated: 30 Sep 2024