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sidelines
/ ˈsaɪdˌlaɪnz /
plural noun
- sport the area immediately outside the playing area, where substitute players sit
- the peripheral areas of any region, organization, etc
Idioms and Phrases
see on the sidelines .Example Sentences
Selma becomes a biopic in which the hero shines while those who worked beside him are overlooked or relegated to the sidelines.
But while local groups fight back, the NRA is staying on the sidelines.
Then, just as Williams had accepted his place on the sidelines, the name and face that faded from our memory came rushing back.
We will not sit on the sidelines and deposit our fate in the hands of others.
I approached Ritchie afterwards on the sidelines of the forum.
Several days later, Johnny Thompson found himself crouching on the western sidelines of the football field at old Hillcrest.
Meggy Strawn, garbed in her brightest and best, was already on the sidelines, ready to lead in the cheering.
What the various pairs Of curved sidelines mean, I am unable to say.
At one time it was discovered that Craig, reinforced by enthusiastic onlookers from the sidelines, had seventeen men in his team.
I was more on the sidelines and didn't enter into any discussions with her at all.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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