How to Use sidetrack in a Sentence

sidetrack

verb

• But the sue-and-settle gravy train may soon be sidetracked — at least at the EPA.
  — Rob Gordon, National Review, 21 Oct. 2017
• The 2014 first-round pick's career has been sidetracked by two ACL tears.
  — Dana Gauruder, Detroit Free Press, 11 Nov. 2019
• Drivers have gotten sidetracked at the wheel for as long as cars have been on the road.
  — Ian Bogost, The Atlantic, 10 Oct. 2019
• Slugged 335 home runs in a career sidetracked by drug abuse.
  — Scott Boeck, USA TODAY, 3 June 2018
• Picked up the quest from Moira to check out the RobCo plant and got sidetracked with other dungeons on the way there.
  — Sam MacHkovech, Ars Technica, 20 Aug. 2019
• The week’s issue involves a past project that got sidetracked.
  — SFChronicle.com, 28 July 2019
• Discuss one idea at a time, and refocus the group if things get sidetracked.
  — Steven P. Dinkin, San Diego Union-Tribune, 29 Sep. 2019
• Montravius kind of got sidetracked there with the injury and stuff.
  — James Crepea, AL.com, 28 Feb. 2018
• Have a game plan Getting sidetracked by daily events happens to all of us.
  — Robert J. Davis, Time, 19 Jan. 2018
• The event is soon sidetracked when the local police chief shows up with a few questions for the wedding party.
  — Caroline Rogers, Southern Living, 3 Apr. 2018
• I got sidetracked, and never went back outside to water the other half.
  — Jackie Pilossoph, chicagotribune.com, 5 July 2017
• Garcia said there was parity in the district and they can't get sidetracked.
  — David Taylor, Houston Chronicle, 5 Apr. 2018
• From there, the Coyotes were sidetracked by 36 of 40 penalty minutes assessed from the end of the second through the third period.
  — Jenna Ortiz, The Arizona Republic, 3 Jan. 2024
• Whatever issues that would arise – and there would be many – weren’t going to sidetrack them.
  — Eric Stephens, Orange County Register, 23 May 2017
• If the state isn't on board with the New Orleans connection, the northward route is probably sidetracked, too.
  — John Sharp, AL.com, 4 Apr. 2018
• Duffy avoided the big inning that sidetracked each of his previous starts.
  — Maria Torres, kansascity, 17 Apr. 2018
• But that was sidetracked when the Bachelor alum tested positive for a gene that links her to a high risk of cancer.
  — Megan Friedman, Cosmopolitan, 5 July 2017
• We’d get sidetracked with goofing off and Ronnie would remind us to get working.
  — Donna Vickroy, Daily Southtown, 14 Apr. 2018
• And every amble around the grounds was sidetracked by an encounter: with a lizard or a lawn swing or, once, a small plantation of bananas.
  — Travel + Leisure Editors, Travel + Leisure, 24 June 2023
• Kidd noted that the team didn't have enough time to get sidetracked by the city's nightlife after arriving around 6 p.m. Saturday.
  — Matt Velazquez, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 14 Jan. 2018
• Stephenson continues to work with Fassero, addressing issues that have caused him to be sidetracked on the mound.
  — Gentry Estes, The Courier-Journal, 16 May 2018
• Don’t let adulting sidetrack you from nourishment and joy.
  — Sonja Marie, Essence, 6 June 2019
• That germ of an idea was sidetracked as the filmmaker began asking Reynolds about his life and the discussions turned inward.
  — Steve Appleford, latimes.com, 23 June 2018
• The shipment that got sidetracked at the Cincinnati airport was worth several thousand yuan, which is a lot of greenbacks.
  — Colin Moore, Outdoor Life, 7 Feb. 2020
• They won’t be sidetracked by taking up a cause that has no bearing on crucial issues the country is facing right now.
  — Dahleen Glanton, chicagotribune.com, 29 July 2019
• There’s no shame in trailing Herbert, who has avoided most of the pitfalls that sidetrack young quarterbacks.
  — Tom Krasovic, San Diego Union-Tribune, 7 Nov. 2021
• But Tommy John surgery the subsequent year sidetracked Motte’s progression as one of the game’s best closers, causing him to miss the entire 2013 season.
  — Matt Faye, The Denver Post, 15 Mar. 2017
• But his career has largely been sidetracked by injuries.
  — Lorenzo Reyes, USA TODAY, 23 Apr. 2023
• Hill, who was elected in 2018 in a swing district race, said this controversy won't sidetrack her work in Congress.
  — Jeanine Santucci, USA TODAY, 23 Oct. 2019
• Even more fortunately, when the reverend is sidetracked, Johnny is able to assume his identity and seek temporary refuge in a place where no one, not ever Bessie, has ever seen him before.
  — Joe Leydon, Variety, 13 Sep. 2023

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