sideshow
Example Sentences
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When Leath was charged with the murders of her two husbands a decade later, the confrontation with Walker made news again, but amounted to a baffling and salacious sideshow, its significance unclear.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 1, 2026
Surrealism continues to fuel artists’ and viewers’ imaginations, but it has increasingly become art’s carnival sideshow.
From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 27, 2025
Excitement over future AI business has largely reduced Cipher’s existing operations to a sideshow.
From Barron's • Nov. 3, 2025
In 1946, a sideshow fixture billed as “Miss Elsie Marks, the Cobra Woman,” died after her seven-foot diamondback rattlesnake bit her.
From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 4, 2025
The sideshow is on the midway, which teems with activity.
From "Water for Elephants" by Sara Gruen
