sidetrack
verb (used with or without object)
to move or distract from the main subject or course.
had sidetracked
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past perfectof sidetrack.past perfect
Used to express a completed action that took place before another specific past action occurred.
Example Sentences
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Cliff Campbell was a young Negro from Washington, D.C., a onetime Pullman porter and redcap, whom the depression had sidetracked from architecture into schoolteaching.
From Time Magazine Archive
Several conservative Senators started to walk from the chamber, sure that they had sidetracked the Borah bill.
From Time Magazine Archive
He had sidetracked those who seemed especially treacherous.
From Time Magazine Archive
It had sidetracked the private car attached to the rear of the last pullman and was puffing away westward, when Ashton guided his running team in among the crude shacks of the town.
From Out of the Depths A Romance of Reclamation by George Brehm
