How To Use Sidetrack In A Sentence

Life is just like an old time rail journey ... delays, sidetracks, smoke, dust, cinders, and jolts, interspersed only occasionally by beautiful vistas and thrilling bursts of speed. The trick is to thank the Lord for letting you have the ride. Gordon B. Hinckley
The body of the text, arranged in three segments, provides links in the sidebar that may sidetrack the reader through related concepts in other segments.
An effort to upgrade security after the 1993 World Trade Center bombing was sidetracked by budget considerations.
As this brief synopsis should make clear, Viladesau's book is full of tantalizing lines of thought and many interesting sidetracks.
Elsewhere, an elevator and two miles of sidetrack are under construction at Highmore, N.D., and should be ready for the fall harvest season.

The conductor told us to lock the cabins and not let anyone inside unless he told us to because thieves pretending to be police quite often preyed on the sleeping cars parked in the sidetracks.
Life is just like an old time rail journey ... delays, sidetracks, smoke, dust, cinders, and jolts, interspersed only occasionally by beautiful vistas and thrilling bursts of speed. The trick is to thank the Lord for letting you have the ride. Gordon B. Hinckley
Don't get sidetracked by the issues or the spectators. Times, Sunday Times
It is the price we pay for fifty years of political and intellectual stagnation, a time when the political dynamic of capitalism was detoured and frozen onto a cold war sidetrack.
All of a sudden I got sidetracked into being a sexpot.
We cannot permit the discussion to be sidetracked into yet another sterile debate about human rights conceived in the abstract and unrelated to the concrete circumstances of the historical moment.
As with many of Paisley's characters he is a lovable rogue, thoughtless but not cruel, well-meaning but easily sidetracked, a boy whose threadbare background has spelt out a future of meagre options, many of them criminal.
Ruth was looking for an envelope in a drawer when she was sidetracked by some old letters.
I'm looking forward to that and don't intend to let anything sidetrack me.
When the going gets tough, he goes on the missing list or gets sidetracked by personal issues. The Sun
The series often gets sidetracked into thinly veiled environmentalist cheerleading, which leads to some of the weaker storylines.
The only way to keep a governor from becoming senator is to sidetrack him off into the presidency.
Amy had expected one of his bright smiles, a twinkle in the eye, and a joyous ‘yes’; she didn't expect him to sidetrack the conversation completely.
Supposing the curved portion is a constant tool face angle curve, new mathematical models of well track design of 3D directional wells and sidetracked holes are established.
He moved to Southern California in the early 70s to pursue his singing career, but he ended up getting sexily sidetracked.
Instead he became sidetracked by the "green matter' he found coating the glass of some of his jars. Eating the Sun: How Plants Power the Planet
The well will now be geologically sidetracked, as intended, to test the reservoir up-flank between this vertical bore and existing crestal wells to further investigate the quality of the reservoir and provide essential compositional information of the hydrocarbons at intermediate depths. New Statesman
If the other person resists your message through blame, attack or excuses, try not to let it sidetrack you.
Second, funding for emergency responders has been sidetracked and stalled due to the politics of the appropriations process, the slow distribution of funds by federal agencies, and bureaucracy.
He spends most of the novel being interrupted by everyone and having his conversations sidetracked and cut short.
Kemp and Gore served in Congress together and had seen their presidential ambitions sidetracked in 1988.
* Our sport during lessons was to sidetrack him away from scripture and towards stirring tales of Fighter Command and the Few. The God Delusion
Had it possibly been sidetracked for some reason in order to allow the slower train to go past?
For supporters of the Illinois Central Railroad Project, money coming from Washington is only delayed now, not sidetracked.
Using different sidetracking methods, its success ratio and effectiveness differentia are large.
Even recent approaches by the US were rebuffed or sidetracked by the Indonesian government.
It wouldn't do to go off on a sidetrack when the important thing to get done was finding the baby.
This examination, sidetracked by the Brooklyn crisis, will now resume, Friedman said, with concrete proposals to be presented to the city and mayor.
That movement, and the debate surrounding it, could completely sidetrack the issue of public safety on Whyte Avenue.
WARNER: I had the opportunity to question him, because I was concerned about this recent military action and whether that sort of sidetracked the -- what I called the central focus now on electing a unified -- not electing, but forming a unified government. CNN Transcript Mar 28, 2006
The immediate impact of his intervention was to sidetrack preventative campaigns.
He studied law at Palermo University, but like many of his background and generation he soon got sidetracked into the exciting world of political and literary romanticism.
You've got me off on a sidetrack, you rascals!
The formerly fast tracked Lords of Dogtown film project is now said to be sidetracked.
Prodi's ambitious plans for EU expansion to the east will be sidetracked.
Outwit your winter slump: here's how to prevent weather, stress, travel and fatigue from sidetracking your exercise - GetMotivated
Without this the purchaser may be sidetracked into calculations on a whole host of other matters which are not strictly relevant.
A dozen of the ducks were sidetracked to Northern California, where they became the basis for contemporary duck farms.
This basic task gets sidetracked by the grandiose project of linking up the rivers.
We also install whipstocks to sidetrack wells, provide plugging and abandonment services, pipe recovery and wireline recovery services, foam services and casing patch installation.
‘And we got a bit sidetracked,’ she finished, her face flaming red all over again.
The drilling of a well after a slot reclamation (which previously had a well) is considered a sidetrack.
Frist is the main pusher of the nuclear option and if he is too sidetracked or marginalized as is Delay, then the attempt by the neocons to savage tradition has less of a chance of happening. Think Progress » Hearings for Sam Alito
Don't be sidetracked into discussing individual cases.
She was continuously sidetracked, however, as customers wandered in and out.
An effort to improve security was sidetracked by budget problems.
I was, however, interested in Scots Gothic and ballads, having been sidetracked slightly in my research by Muriel Spark's use of the supernatural and her borrowings from Scotland's dark history.
Environmentalists accuse it of trying to sidetrack the issue.
Fifty acts from the three Prairie Provinces will be selected by a jury of industry professionals to perform in venues such as the Rev Cabaret, the Sidetrack, New City Likwid Lounge and Suburbs.
I chose not to sidetrack here into the bassoonists' hypochondriacal woes.
I got sidetracked in a debate with my wife about current events, and two hours later I realized that I would not be dumping my manifesto on the web.
Though suspecting that he is being sidetracked until his bosses are reassured of his nerves, the dark, clenched Eyal poses as a tour guide and insinuates himself into the lives of these blonde, open-faced, boundlessly naive Germans.
One of the major disadvantages of rail transport is that a fast train cannot run on the same line as a suburban, stopping slow train without sidetracks and expensive signalling.
An existing well, drilled with a section through a tight sand interval was judged unlikely to fully drain the panel, so a sidetrack with an openhole drain length of 1,000 m was drilled from the 7-in. liner using an intermediate radius curve
Of course, this tip won't work if you get sidetracked in the coffee shop and dive into the muffins and biscuits on display too. Times, Sunday Times
The taste, for me, was kind of sidetracked by the grease -- which is sad because the slight hints of the cherrywood smoked bacon and peppered egg were actually quite nice. The Stir: Dunkin' Donuts Big N' Toasty: A New Buttery Indulgence
Supposing the curved portion is a constant tool face angle curve, new mathematical models of well track design of 3D directional wells and sidetracked holes are established.
But we can't do justice to Plato the philosopher if we are constantly sidetracked by speculations about whether Plato the man really lived up to his own teachings.
Prospero devises a show of tinsel finery to sidetrack the vulgarians, but he is not present to see Caliban's disillusionment, or his vehement contempt.
Before we go on, however, allow me a quick sidetrack.
But when Jacqueline's parents, who lived in Nashville, Tennessee, became ill, the Jacksons' financial plans were sidetracked.
Some railroads agreed to carry vagabonds free: most rail managers resisted, using force to expel tramps from trains and sometimes sidetracking trains carrying large numbers of them to remote areas.
Like any good tutor, Aristotle allows you to get sidetracked from a lesson plan and follow your interests.
Along the way, we often got sidetracked by the mountain-top view.
Barreto did a fair job of explaining the process of making this movie, but he often got sidetracked onto more tangential anecdotes.
Some of these notes are so enthralling that the reader can easily be sidetracked from the main text.
I've had to learn to see double, keeping the big ball rolling while juggling a full complement of sidetracks and minor emergencies.
Let's not get distracted by futile debates or sidetracked by issues that have been going on for centuries!
When they finally reached him, he claimed that the project had been temporarily sidetracked by permit problems.
Me thinks that the pharmaceutical companies are throwing us a bone in hopes of sidetracking what the President is hellbent on accomplishing: affordable healthcare for ALL. Obama praises agreement to cut drug costs for senior citizens
We really need to focus on this one issue and not get sidetracked.
With the drop-down menu of indexes along the side of the screen, it is easy to get back to where one started after wandering away following the sidetracks of intriguing links.
For that authentic, sweaty, draft-drenched night-at-the-Commie experience, you're ironically advised to consider the Sidetrack Café for your New Year's merrymaking.
It pulled out of here at 4:20, right on time, and made a quick run down across the meadows, intending to sidetrack at West Canaan for both passenger trains.
I try to have a passive awareness… but I'm getting sidetracked into a different topic.
Tending bar at Chicago's Sidetrack to make extra money, Hall saw the job as the perfect complement to his theater career.
Life is just like an old time rail journey ... delays, sidetracks, smoke, dust, cinders, and jolts, interspersed only occasionally by beautiful vistas and thrilling bursts of speed. The trick is to thank the Lord for letting you have the ride. Gordon B. Hinckley
The dismissal comes after Tanaka's latest row with bureaucrats and their political backers threatened to sidetrack Koizumi's goal of economic reforms.
An effort to improve security was sidetracked by budget problems.
Apparently the sea views are spectacular too, though I was sidetracked somewhat by an astonishingly well-priced wine list, which the restaurateur himself imports.
Without this the purchaser may be sidetracked into calculations on a whole host of other matters which are not strictly relevant.
Interestingly, in one of my classes at university on Thursday we discussed the elections for a few brief minutes as a sidetrack.
Then in 1960, a young graduate called Ted Nelson got sidetracked from his masters degree in sociology at Harvard into writing text - retrieval software.
He tied me up in knots and deflected what I felt were the real issues with sidetracks and tangents.
Only the really great champions refuse to be sidetracked by any of these minor problems.
You can't move forward or achieve your goals, if you become sidetracked by self-defeating behavior.
I get sidetracked by minor distractions all the time (which is often fun), but if I really want something, I'll keep the goal in sight and eventually get there.
The immediate impact of his intervention was to sidetrack preventative campaigns.
These rigs are used to perform a variety of completion, workover and maintenance services, such as installations, completions, assisting with perforating, removing defective equipment and sidetracking wells.
It is unfortunate that in these last few months the debate on these matters has threatened to be sidetracked by those taking extreme positions that either excite irrational fears or promote unrealistic expectations.
He'd managed to avoid being sidetracked by Schneider's problems.
Next, if you do want to go off on a sidetrack away from your original purpose, set a time limit.
I used to train for competitions but was sidetracked after an injury.
Plans for an initial public offering of Piaggio's shares in 2005 were sidetracked by the Aprilia acquisition.
But I won't be sidetracked. Times, Sunday Times
Occasionally Adam will become sidetracked from his boxing with obsessions over obscure martial arts.
Sidetracks on each side of the shade seal the edges while a foam seal between the headrail and the top of the window frame minimize any heat loss saving energy. The Earth Times Online Newspaper
She was brought out of her weird sidetrack by a serious question.
It is easy to get sidetracked and distracted by events of apparent urgency but low importance.
Two hunters happen to be nearby and they motion for me to follow them down a sidetrack.
The principal objective was increasing productivity; the issue of the workers' right to determine how earnings were to be spent was sidetracked.
Then, once you really believe in something, the key is to keep your head down and go for it, spurning any attempt to sidetrack you on the way.
If I respond you have succeeded in sidetracking the debate.
The leadership moved to sidetrack the proposal.
He sidetracked to enliven the atmosphere.
Blogs are often a great thing, but they can prove to be a sidetrack, and sometimes they produce an over-simplification of political analysis which is even worse than the one customarily supplied by ‘real’ papers.
Katcha bounced up and down in her chair impatiently, refusing to let the question be sidetracked.
Supposing the curved portion is a constant tool face angle curve, new mathematical models of well track design of 3D directional wells and sidetracked holes are established.
Terry was sidetracked by the sudden change of direction.
This means trivialities that could distract or divert his focus of attention, which is winning golf tournaments, do not sidetrack him.
Along the way, they intend to sidetrack some of President Bush's most controversial proposals, while compromising on others.
An interesting sidetrack: enemies are incredibly stupid when it comes to damage control and emergency actions.
Ruth was looking for an envelope in a drawer when she was sidetracked by some old letters.
As a sidetrack, I might mention that my post of two days ago was my thousandth… yep, this one will be number 1003.
They have a tendency to try to sidetrack you from your task.
Lee whipped his BMW into the short sidetrack off the Pallisades Parkway and stopped along the rail at the top of the cliff.
As for Pat O'Shane, she maintains that continuing to focus on her controversial comments is sidetracking debate from big picture issues.
I can't seem to see a clear answer for this conundrum and therefore it sidetracks me and taunts me.
By the time Grandpa finishes his story, he's wandered down sidetracks, lost a few of the kids to sleep and even managed to lose his own place more than once.
Fortunately, only a small part of the narrative is taken up by it, and the real delight of the book is its frequent sidetracks into the biology, culture, lore, and politics of birds.
Kemp and Gore served in Congress together and had seen their presidential ambitions sidetracked in 1988.
He was tipped for megastardom but, unlike his two legendary disciples, he all but disappeared, sidetracked by drink and drugs, botched love affairs and a lusty appetite for violence.
With mid-term elections on the horizon and the influence of former president Lula sidetracked by treatment to palliate his larengyal cancer, Brazil's latest political carnival could find William Waack at the front of the parade. Eric Ehrmann: Brazil Springs A WikiLeak... Assange Tags Newsman As Media Mole
An effort to upgrade security after the 1993 World Trade Center bombing was sidetracked by budget considerations.
If a sidetrack is made to bypass an obstruction while the surface and target locations remain the same this is called a mechanical sidetrack.
More work needs to be done to prove the commercial significance of the find, with the project's partners to spend an additional $3 million on sidetracking the well.
I'd planned a quick stroll on the main route, but I keep getting sidetracked by spur paths leading to lovely, lonely beaches.
Anyone sidetracked by clothes or other departments within multiple stores is sent back to the start.
I was supposed to be writing a letter but I'm afraid I got sidetracked.

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