Sentence example with the word 'sidetrack'

sidetrack

avert, departure, ease off, excursion, go off, line, rail, shunt, sidle, terminal, trunk line

Definition n. a short stretch of railroad track used to store rolling stock or enable trains on the same line to pass

Last update: September 8, 2015


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Students want to sidetrack the teacher by creating disturbance in class.   [Please select]

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Not to be sidetracked, she then asked the woman's rights convention to broaden its platform to include rights for the Negro.   [Please select]

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"The harmonic telegraph was entirely sidetracked and the interest of both men turned into this newer channel."   [Please select]

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The train was sidetracked here and there, and dragged along at a slow pace.   [Please select]

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Ordinances were passed or blocked, pavement deals were rushed through or sidetracked.   [Please select]

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They saw that the darned thing wouldn't do, so they sidetracked it and made a noo route for my noo-trition traffic.   [Please select]

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All that Stephen saw was a regular day-car on a sidetrack.   [Please select]

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"The important thing is to sidetrack the French agent, who could put fifty ruffians on our trail instead of one."   [Please select]

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Now and then he recollected himself and inquired for the "Major," but a drink always sidetracked him.   [Please select]

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He is usually fairly well educated, for not infrequently he started out to study for the law or the ministry and was sidetracked by hard necessity.   [Please select]

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This second change in management sidetracked the plans for radical reform, and little improvement resulted either in earning power or in financial condition.   [Please select]

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