side issue

Example Sentences

Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.

“So now, instead of focusing on the main issue, the side issue has become the main point. But those main issues remain, and they still need to be addressed in a clear manner.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 8, 2026

But this, for now, is a side issue.

From BBC • May 27, 2022

Compared with that reset, tutoring may be a side issue.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 30, 2022

But for our present purposes all that is a side issue, even if it’s also a yawning abyss beneath our feet.

From Salon • Dec. 6, 2019

At the same time, to please his father, toward whom he everywhere professes the most filial feeling, he continued "that confounded flute-playing" as a side issue.

From Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, Vol. VIII by Various