sideshow

Example Sentences

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Some analysts say the vote is a sideshow.

From Barron's • Jan. 12, 2026

Surrealism continues to fuel artists’ and viewers’ imaginations, but it has increasingly become art’s carnival sideshow.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 27, 2025

In 1946, a sideshow fixture billed as “Miss Elsie Marks, the Cobra Woman,” died after her seven-foot diamondback rattlesnake bit her.

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 4, 2025

Amorim knows, stripped away from the sideshow, he must deliver results.

From BBC • May 30, 2025

Slavery was not a sideshow to the settlement and development of America but a central feature.

From "In the Shadow of Liberty" by Kenneth C. Davis