Sentence examples for be sidetracked from inspiring English sources
verb
To divert (a locomotive) on to a lesser used track in order to allow other trains to pass.
"We can't be sidetracked.
"I don't need to be sidetracked," one recruit said.
The life of the mind should not be sidetracked by the straining of muscle.
We must not be sidetracked by this debate and forget about our poorest children.
Americans should not let themselves be sidetracked by a media spectacle.
To read "BodyWorld" for its plot, though, is to be sidetracked by one of its lesser pleasures.
I'm worried about how that mind might be sidetracked, corrupted, underdeveloped — whatever word you want to use — by technology.
Today, Ms. Fowler vowed that the panel "will not be sidetracked by those with ideological or political agendas".
Books, household goods, junk and antiques are on hand, but don't be sidetracked from the Mennonite celery.
He was worried that he would be sidetracked by emotions in his first game against his good friend Hughes, the team that drafted him and Pettitte, his mentor.
Charles A. Gargano, chairman of the Empire State Development Corporation, would not directly say that the stadium plans would be sidetracked indefinitely.
