side interest

Example Sentences

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But politics was a side interest and, for much of the next 20 years, his legal career was his focus.

From BBC • Jul. 5, 2024

The blog and cookbook were a side interest.

From Seattle Times • Nov. 29, 2022

I had a side interest: to find traces of Asian American history in this part of the Sierra Nevada foothills.

From New York Times • Sep. 15, 2021

His longtime side interest in investment helped him find his footing; now he is Morningstar’s expert on more than a dozen well-known equity-strategy funds.

From The Wall Street Journal • Sep. 12, 2016

I have known a class of nine-ten-year children conducted through the Odyssey making a side interest of the Realien, the pottery and weaving, and metal working.

From Literature in the Elementary School by MacClintock, Porter Lander