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Definition of sideshow
1 : a minor show offered in addition to a main exhibition (as of a circus)
2 : an incidental diversion or spectacle
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Examples of sideshow in a Sentence
Their disagreement is just a political sideshow when compared to the real issues at hand.
Recent Examples of sideshow from the Web
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After going from scene-stealing sideshow to main attraction in their 2015 stand-alone feature (also directed by Coffin and Balda), perhaps these chattering overgrown corn kernels felt the need for some downtime.
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A California Highway Patrol helicopter kept tabs on the sideshow as drivers weaved in and out of law enforcement jurisdictions, McPhail said.
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The Presley concert is like a sideshow with its warmup group fluff.
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FC Cincinnati's success in the U.S. Open Cup is a sideshow on Saturday, and one that the players and coaching staff are attempting to block out.
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Four years later, large segments of the Republican Party seemed to agree that they were faced with a very similar problem: a vain, volatile, win-infatuated celebrity running a squalid sideshow the country couldn’t help gawking at.
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But the seventh episode confirmed that Dougie’s antics are not a sideshow, but rather the heart of the story Lynch is trying to tell, a sign that the show is building to some kind of grand reckoning between good and evil.
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This was an astonishing achievement for a news organization founded a decade ago in a Los Angeles basement, unknown to most Americans until the Trump candidacy ceased to seem like a political sideshow.
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His visits generate publicity while appearing largely as a sideshow to the political negotiations between countries like the U.S., China, Japan, Russia and South Korea over the reclusive regime.
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First Known Use of sideshow
1846
SIDESHOW Defined for English Language Learners
sideshow
playDefinition of sideshow for English Language Learners
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: a smaller show that is performed in addition to a main show
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: an activity or event that is less important than the main activity or event
SIDESHOW Defined for Kids
sideshow
playDefinition of sideshow for Students
: a small show off to the side of a main show or exhibition (as of a circus)
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