SIDELINE in a Sentence

Learn SIDELINE from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.

Example sentences for SIDELINE, such as:

1. The player has been sidelined by a knee injury.
2. The coach bellowed instructions from the sidelines.
3. Zoe does a bit of freelance photography as a sideline.
4. He decided to turn his hobby into a lucrative sideline.
5. As I said, it is very easy to jeer from the sidelines and make boastful claims of what you would do in the same situation.

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 Meanings and Examples of SIDELINE
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
sideline
 v.  place on the sidelines; to bench or to keep someone out of play
Classic Sentence:
1  I thought you didn't, if you'll pardon my--you see, I carry on a little business on the side, a sort of sideline, you understand.
The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
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Example Sentence:
1  He decided to turn his hobby into a lucrative sideline.
2  Zoe does a bit of freelance photography as a sideline.
3  I'm a teacher really; my writing is just a sideline.
4  Our party has been on the political sidelines for too long - we must now work towards getting into power.
5  The coach bellowed instructions from the sidelines.
6  As I said, it is very easy to jeer from the sidelines and make boastful claims of what you would do in the same situation.
7  Immigration reform, largely sidelined by economic issues in Obama's first term, is part of an ambitious liberal agenda he laid out in his second inaugural address on Monday
8  The player has been sidelined by a knee injury.