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How to use the word Sideshow in a Sentence?

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The office is more important than any individual person. So for the sake of the office of the presidency, I do think that’s too much of a sideshow and distraction, he needs to be able to concentrate on his due process.

Asa Hutchinson

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Most voters see the Jan 6th committee as a political sideshow, the committee obviously wants to put Trump front and center as much as they can and create discussion about Jan. 6 instead of inflation, immigration and crime.

Mark Penn

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

James Gallagher knows that James Gallagher’s in trouble, and James Gallagher’s using this as a sideshow distraction to introduce another gun law, so hopefully people will not see and pay attention to James Gallagher terrible record on their quality of life, the governor needs to focus his efforts on things that will lower the cost of living for Californians, actually solve homelessness, instead of one-off gestures that are n’t going to do anything to stop gun violence.

Gavin Newsom

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

What is said outside is nothing more than a sideshow to make the negotiation tense, this dialogue has many enemies.

Wilfredo Navarro

Found on FOX News
5 years ago

As I said earlier, and I think you already know, we have hired a female assistant to go on staff and to ask these questions in a respectful and professional way, we want this hearing to be handled very professionally, not a political sideshow like you saw the -- put on by the Democrats when they were questioning Brett Kavanaugh.

Mitch McConnell

Found on CNN
5 years ago

I hope that it opens peoples’ eyes and broadens their understanding of that part of the war, for the people fighting, it certainly wasn’t a sideshow, it was deadly serious business.

Bob Cressman

Found on FOX News
5 years ago

Act of War: Lyndon Johnson, North Korea, and the Capture of the Spy Ship Pueblo, the Pueblo fell through the cracks of history because it became a sideshow to everything that happened.

Fox News

Found on FOX News
6 years ago

These kinds of theatrics by Ted Cruz and Donald Trump are an entertaining sideshow, but they have nothing to do with defeating Hillary Clinton, i'm going to stay focused on uniting the Republican party so we can defeat Hillary Clinton and turn the page on eight years of liberal failure. We don't have time for these kinds of distractions.

Marco Rubio

Found on CNN
8 years ago

The media began by covering Trump as a sideshow, then grew more aggressive in challenging him on his 'facts', and now is more actively commenting on the character of his campaign.

David Axelrod

Found on CNN
8 years ago

I thought my coming might give a sense of unity in the city ; that we can disagree on cases and on policies but that we are united that the senseless and ruthless killing of officers like your son must be denounced, it is clear though after reading several articles that some union leaders and some others want to turn Al Sharpton and Al Sharpton pastor’s noble efforts into some kind of confrontation or sideshow.

Al Sharpton

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

It seems high and mighty of the Huffington Post to decide who is and who isn't a real candidate when Donald Trump is leading in the Republican polls right now, they wouldn't have taken kindly if the rest of the media had treated Arianna Huffington's run for governor of California as a sideshow. I would say it's up to the voters to decide who is a real candidate and who is not.

Rich Noyes

Found on FOX News
8 years ago

This is a woman, this is a candidate who is going to be the nominee. We all know it, for all of the Bernie momentum stuff. That’s a sideshow. But you have to go through 15, 16 months of a ritual of actually campaigning, there is no campaign. There is not going to be a debate. There isn’t a challenge. So she is stuck for these 15 or so months pretending to be a candidate and what you get are pretend events.

Charles Krauthammer

Found on FOX News
8 years ago

Unfortunately the governor continues to insist on sideshow policies that will promote the corporate class at the expense of the middle class, there is no resolution in sight.

Rikeesha Phelon

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

The foreign fighter thing is a sideshow in this conflict... but at the end of the day it really isn't a long-term solution or particularly important part, the guys that SOLI are training are the most highly capable, intelligent, motivated fighters that we've had -- they request that we get up early to do physical training.

Steven Sotloff

Found on CNN
9 years ago

Art is about painting. All the rest is just a sideshow

Geoff Bunn

added by anonymous
10 years ago

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