How to Use wayside in a Sentence

wayside

noun
  • Flowers grew along the wayside.
  • Stand firm and don’t let your morals go to the wayside for them.
    Tarot.com, Baltimore Sun, 25 Jan. 2024
  • One model that falls by the wayside in the U.S. is the V-6 plug-in hybrid.
    Jens Meiners, Car and Driver, 15 Feb. 2022
  • Running fell to the wayside for a while post-high school.
    Rachel Chang, Travel + Leisure, 24 Mar. 2022
  • And even that really went to the wayside over the past year.
    Jessica Radloff, Glamour, 14 Apr. 2022
  • If taking care of your hair fell to the wayside this past year…well, join the club.
    Bella Cacciatore, Glamour, 28 July 2021
  • In the years after, events like the video game expo E3 fell by the wayside.
    Angela Watercutter, WIRED, 24 July 2024
  • Those kinds of deals have gone by the wayside in recent years.
    Ryan Faughnder, Los Angeles Times, 22 Feb. 2022
  • Projects that take years of research fall by the wayside.
    Washington Post, 26 Nov. 2020
  • That’s an admirable idea, but it gets tossed to the wayside when the stakes grow too high.
    Kurt Streeter, New York Times, 19 Nov. 2021
  • Despite its high bang for your buck, the pullover is a move that tends to fall by the wayside.
    Jenny McCoy, SELF, 18 Oct. 2023
  • What was state of the art in 1912 has mostly fallen by the wayside.
    Tamar Haspel, Washington Post, 31 Aug. 2022
  • When the move was made to Texas, that argument fell by the wayside.
    Greg Engle, Forbes, 19 May 2022
  • For purists, fear not—concrete has not gone by the wayside.
    Rachel Gallaher, Robb Report, 19 Nov. 2023
  • Nor does that cover the question of which new drugs might fall by the wayside.
    Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 11 Oct. 2023
  • In the decades following the Jim Crow era, the home began to slowly fall to the wayside.
    Christina Liao, Travel + Leisure, 8 May 2024
  • Not when match point after match point went by the wayside.
    Houston Mitchell, Los Angeles Times, 8 Sep. 2023
  • For too long, the FCC stood by the wayside as newspapers across the country closed by the dozen.
    Dade Hayes, Deadline, 6 Dec. 2024
  • But since early June, that has started to fall to the wayside.
    New York Times, 8 July 2021
  • And despite all that juggling, none of these things should have to fall by the wayside.
    Rachel Brodsky, Los Angeles Times, 9 Feb. 2024
  • The effort on the court certainly won’t go by the wayside.
    Jason Beede, Orlando Sentinel, 5 Nov. 2024
  • That issue fell by the wayside by the time the case reached the Supreme Court, where it was argued Tuesday.
    The Editors, National Review, 27 Mar. 2024
  • But again, older children and teens found the seats to be cramped, so that idea went by the wayside, too.
    Hannah Drown, cleveland, 16 Sep. 2023
  • That is how he was wired and everything else fell by the wayside.
    George Varga, San Diego Union-Tribune, 10 Dec. 2023
  • Since the shutdowns began, many of our schedules have gone to the wayside.
    Sara Kiley Watson, Popular Science, 26 Aug. 2020
  • Useless things that do not drive you closer to your goals fall by the wayside.
    Rodger Dean Duncan, Forbes, 19 July 2022
  • But that should have gone by the wayside with the small majorities in Congress.
    The Editorial Board, WSJ, 1 Oct. 2021
  • The initial fears of risking an injury have gone by the wayside.
    Casey Drottar, chicagotribune.com, 9 Feb. 2022
  • But as online shopping boomed, malls fell by the wayside.
    Hannah Jackson, Vogue, 18 Dec. 2024
  • And in recent years as more and more Americans turned to online shopping and e-commerce platforms flourished, malls have closed and major department stores have struggled − and their holiday traditions sometimes fall by the wayside.
    Phaedra Trethan, USA TODAY, 25 Dec. 2024

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