sideshow
Example Sentences
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When Leath was charged with the murders of her two husbands a decade later, the confrontation with Walker made news again, but amounted to a baffling and salacious sideshow, its significance unclear.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 1, 2026
Most clubs do not leave it this late to tie down their starters to new deals, but contracts have become a complex sideshow over the past few years at Anfield.
From BBC • Apr. 20, 2026
In seeking to explain his plunge into the fifth round, some pointed to concerns about Shedeur’s personality and the sideshow of being the son of “Coach Prime.”
From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 24, 2025
Modern accounting and investor trust have reduced dividends to a sideshow, but they used to be the whole point.
From Barron's • Nov. 21, 2025
We walked out of the sideshow the way we’d come, dejected, past the now-empty stages, past the plain-looking boy, out of the tent and into the daylight.
From "Hollow City" by Ransom Riggs
