sideshow

Example Sentences

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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

But on Friday in Miami, that sideshow collides with boxing's top tier as Paul faces two-time heavyweight world champion and Olympic gold medallist Anthony Joshua.

From BBC • Dec. 18, 2025

Modern accounting and investor trust have reduced dividends to a sideshow, but they used to be the whole point.

From Barron's • Nov. 21, 2025

After that, his unclaimed body began its wanderings: as a greeter for an Oklahoma funeral home, as a sideshow attraction for touring carnivals, and even in a titillating 1933 pre-Code film, “Narcotic.”

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 4, 2025

In the election, nearly reduced to a sideshow, Wense Grabarek won by 2,245 votes.

From "The Best of Enemies" by Osha Gray Davidson