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sidetrack

verb as in divert

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Example Sentences

Next to you is a signal switch that will divert the train down a sidetrack or “spur.”

He'll be coming around to offer to sidetrack that legislation if you'll let him build his railroad.

But circus er no circus, ye ain't a goin' to sidetrack me out'n them funeral arrangements.

That's the kind of a sidetrack the Stars and Stripes would switch you onto.'

Here on a sidetrack we found small coal-burning engines ready to help us over, small driving wheels but capable of great power.

Warring factions all about him, who tried in many ways to sidetrack him, failed in every attempt.

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On this page you'll find 23 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to sidetrack, such as: alter, avert, change, deflect, digress, and redirect.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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