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
  • But outside the lines, the White Sox have become a sideshow.
    Sam Blum, The Athletic, 8 Aug. 2024
  • Read more: Stormy Daniels, star of the latest Trump sideshow, took her act to a strip club.
    Mark Berman, Washington Post, 14 Feb. 2018
  • But the vehicle and the trainer are all just a sideshow.
    Matthew Vantryon, The Courier-Journal, 11 July 2017
  • 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
  • Quasi takes a trip through the Quackadero, a Coney-Island-like sideshow.
    Gege Reed, The Courier-Journal, 13 Dec. 2017
  • 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
  • Instead, a shrewd eye at the end goal guides him over sideshow theatrics.
    Philip Elliott, Time, 17 Oct. 2017
  • 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
  • One look at her chart would give him the sideshow narrative.
    Maryoconn, Longreads, 18 Sep. 2017
  • 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
  • And remember, Tuesday’s hearing was in many ways a sideshow.
    Dominic Patten, Deadline, 19 Nov. 2024

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