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Usage examples of sideline.

Jesus on the sidelines, antigay conservatives looking for confirmation in the New Testament are stuck with St.

Wood, who was also Keeper of the Capital Prison, had a sideline as a counterfeiting expert, bagging boodlers for the federal bounty money.

The Browns might have had a profitable sideline in murder, theft, and slavery, but their chief income lay in trade with the Indians.

It could be Eduardo de Santos, who works as head cutter for Hall Jewelry International and, if street gossip is true, has a nice little sideline reworking stolen gems passed to him by his extended family.

His reading glasses are rectangular, court-shaped, the sidelines at top and bottom.

For a while he sat on the sidelines taking it in, but their very equanimity and easy humor began to get at him.

By the late 1950s, cybernetics was being superseded by the specialized technical fields and subdisciplines it had spawned, and Wiener himself wound up on the sidelines of his own revolution.

Harry was wringing his hands and shouting warnings from the sidelines, and the oversized trouper, Tor, had two of the other townies by their collars.

One of my sidelines in this office is to see if any of the drug cartels are trying to expand into this money transfer business.

Nevertheless, when the cloning party had filed into the OR, it was Mustafa and his cluttering fellows who had been relegated to the sidelines along with the circulating nurses and standby technicians, while Hamid-Jones had been assigned to stand with ig-Gabal in the place of honor at the surgical interface, though there was nothing, really, for him to do.

There was one sprawling freeforall, which the coaches allowed to continue for about five minutes, standing on the sidelines looking pleasantly bored as we kicked each other in the shins and threw dumb rights and lefts at caged faces, the more impulsive taking off their helmets and swinging them at anything that moved.

It turns out that in the last few months our banker has developed a little sideline of his own, faking some of this art, then selling both the original and the fake.

Now he did a roaring trade in snappers and groupers cooked to order at outrageous fees, with a flourishing sideline in fresh fish sales to the neighborhood each morning.

Then his luck changed and, like many before and since, he was shunted to the sidelines at age fifty-six, informed that his days of big responsibility were over and given the choice of early retirement or a minor, makework post.

He took one look at my face and brushed rudely past the maskers to get me on the safe, uncrowded sidelines.