sideshow
a minor show or exhibition in connection with a principal one, as at a circus.
any subordinate event or matter.
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How to use sideshow in a sentence
Its resolution will determine whether the party has a chance of regaining power or whether it will be an increasingly irrelevant sideshow in a country dominated by the left.
There’s an overlay of international politics involved, with a sideshow storyline about the Justice Department allegedly approaching Gaetz’s father, a former Florida politician, about funding a mission to find an ex-FBI agent missing in Iran.
Matt Gaetz Gets Headlines for the Scandals. He Should Worry About the Receipts | Philip Elliott | April 2, 2021 | TImeRight now, investors don’t want to see any noise or sideshows from Tesla and Musk.
Elon Musk tweets, deletes brag that Tesla will be biggest company ‘in a few months’ | Hannah Denham | March 26, 2021 | Washington PostIrving has been an unreliable co-star so far this season, alternating between fantastic scoring outbursts and confusing sideshows.
James Harden is a winner and a loser of the Nets’ blockbuster trade | Ben Golliver | January 14, 2021 | Washington PostOn the old web, designed to deliver hyper-targeted ads to unimaginably large audiences, creators have been a sideshow.
The web must change its business model if it wants to become truly global and multilingual | matthewheimer | December 21, 2020 | Fortune
But drinking seems like a sideshow in these joints, not the main event.
The runoff has turned into a macabre political sideshow filled with grotesque attacks and ugly accusations.
The natural gas boom has become little more than a sideshow.
How the Kings of Fracking Double-Crossed Their Way to Riches | ProPublica | March 13, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTThe trial of Morsi, now due to begin February 1, will be just a sideshow.
Egypt’s Arab Spring Gives Way To Spring Of The Patriarch | Christopher Dickey | January 10, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTBut the shutdown is something of a sideshow, provoked by impatient conservatives who wanted confrontation.
Democrats May Be Obstructionists Now, but They Have Good Reason | Jamelle Bouie | October 1, 2013 | THE DAILY BEAST"Biting off live chickens' heads, in a sideshow wild-man act," Hideyoshi O'Leary supplied.
Uller Uprising | Henry Beam Piper, John D. Clark and John F. CarrHagen got a quick mental flash of a barker outside a circus sideshow: He walks like a man.
Ten From Infinity | Paul W. FairmanUnfortunately for posterity, Stieffel did not record his impressions of this little-known sideshow of the Civil War.
Hermann Stieffel, Soldier Artist of the West | Edgar M. HowellTo make it take an hour he'd have to be ossified, wouldn't he, like the feller in the circus sideshow?
The Portygee | Joseph Crosby LincolnThe sideshow got a dime of hers before the big show started and again after it ended.
Back Home | Irvin S. Cobb
British Dictionary definitions for sideshow
/ (ˈsaɪdˌʃəʊ) /
a small show or entertainment offered in conjunction with a larger attraction, as at a circus or fair
a subordinate event or incident
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