Sentence examples for a sideshow of from inspiring English sources

The phrase "a sideshow of" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe something that is a secondary or less important aspect of a larger event or situation, often implying that it is entertaining or distracting.
Example: "The conference was filled with serious discussions, but the networking event turned out to be a sideshow of laughter and fun."
Alternatives: "a distraction from" or "an aside to".

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Electricity has been a sideshow of this energy shock.

The military affair in which he had been engaged, was as he said, a sideshow of a sideshow.

The second modern Olympic competition was relegated to a sideshow of the World Exhibition, which was being held in Paris in the summer of 1900.

On the theme of Thanksgiving, King half-crassly contrived a segue to a sideshow of the moment, one concerning President Trump's offense at a perceived lack of gratitude.

The Governor dismissed Mr. Murton two months after the bodies were found, saying the superintendent had made "a sideshow" of the issue.

He said the ruling cut through a sideshow of international politics that had obfuscated what should have been a simple custody case.

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Actually, it was just the standard big tease, typically propagated by men, and one that — perhaps unintentionally — would make a sideshow out of a player who has been considered revolutionary by women's basketball standards.

That has added spice to elections that have largely been regarded as a sideshow for most of the last 35 years.

Debates about public or private models of funding are actually something of a sideshow, for two reasons.

But some said the plight of the minister was a sideshow to the greater problem of a lame duck government.

The "dime museum" was a low-class visitor from the tacky world of lower Broadway, a sideshow world of freaks and shrunken heads and lectures on occult phenomena.

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