How to Use sidelight in a Sentence

sidelight

noun
  • The book includes some amusing sidelights about his childhood.
  • Her mother had placed a hat with a wide brim on a wall sidelight.
    — Jacques Kelly, baltimoresun.com, 31 Oct. 2017
  • Swift and Kelce have been great for the game, a fun sidelight to the season.
    — Bill Goodykoontz, The Arizona Republic, 5 Feb. 2024
  • French doors to the deck have large sidelights that let in abundant natural light.
    — James Alexander, Hartford Courant, 9 Mar. 2025
  • Wide sidelights bracket the front door of the three-story villa.
    — Marcelle Sussman Fischler, New York Times, 11 Jan. 2017
  • The front door is a work of art that features a large leaded glass insert and leaded glass sidelights.
    — James Alexander, Hartford Courant, 21 June 2026
  • This entryway also has a transom window and a sidelight that will wash the small space in the sun.
    — Leanne Potts, Better Homes & Gardens, 2 Oct. 2025
  • He is fundamentally steeped in ants, and people are a sidelight.
    — Razib Khan, Discover Magazine, 30 Mar. 2013
  • But most of my income does not relate to blogging, this is definitely a sidelight.
    — Razib Khan, Discover Magazine, 6 Mar. 2013
  • As a historical sidelight, it might be noted that sometimes spring, even early spring, is and can be very warm.
    — Washington Post, 21 Mar. 2021
  • Modern touches include the pivoting front door with glass sidelights.
    — Lauren Beale, latimes.com, 26 May 2017
  • This big arch has two sidelight arches that display pieces from Denha’s sculpture collection.
    — Judy Rose, Detroit Free Press, 18 Apr. 2020
  • The dispute over the Republicans' attorneys was a sidelight to a larger fight over where to put the lines.
    — Patrick Marley, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 27 Jan. 2022
  • Magnetic sidelight blockers, which ship in the kit, will turn it into a fully immersive heads-up display.
    — Lauren Goode, WIRED, 11 Oct. 2022
  • That historical sidelight set the stage for Donaldina Cameron’s life work.
    — Judy Peterson, The Mercury News, 25 May 2017
  • The exterior walls were all translucent, allowing for ample sidelight.
    — Dana Goodyear, The New Yorker, 5 Oct. 2020
  • American Oversight's records lawsuits are a sidelight to a broader legal fight over Gableman's work.
    — Patrick Marley, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 31 Dec. 2021
  • Others see performance as a sidelight to other professional careers.
    — Jane Wooldridge, miamiherald, 22 Apr. 2018
  • In the end, that was a sidelight given how little the A’s did on offense in what was a bullpen game by the Angels, who improved to 33-46.
    — Jerry McDonald, The Mercury News, 26 June 2024
  • One of the more remarkable sidelights to this story is something said by former Browns general manager Mike Lombardi.
    — Terry Pluto, cleveland.com, 2 Feb. 2018
  • Environmental regulations are hardly the only partisan sidelight in the debate over how to respond to the Zika virus.
    — David M. Herszenhorn, New York Times, 24 May 2016
  • The plots are reasonably complicated, draw on McManus' outdoor experiences and are salted with quirky sidelights.
    — Bill Monroe, OregonLive.com, 13 Apr. 2018
  • The craft is a sidelight for Crawford, 43, a cybersecurity analyst who works for the Army at Fort Meade.
    — Mike Klingaman, baltimoresun.com, 19 Aug. 2021
  • The front door with sidelights, transom, and a half-moon window over the second floor opens into the spacious foyer with an inlaid hardwood floor, offering a preview of the luxurious interior.
    — Joan Walden, courant.com, 20 July 2017
  • Some sidelights Last year, both the Checkers and their NHL parent team, the Florida Panthers, made big playoff runs.
    — Steve Lyttle, Charlotte Observer, 21 Apr. 2026
  • This is simply a fun little sidelight, Manziel insisted, giving him a chance to take a few snaps in an intriguing new venture and perhaps help some up-and-comers get a look from the NFL.
    — Paul Newberry, ajc, 13 Feb. 2021
  • The variously slinky and driven choreography features such sidelights as pratfalls, teasingly competitive back-and-forth accents, sassy shoulder shimmies and snappy hand jives.
    — Robert Greskovic, WSJ, 19 Nov. 2018
  • Regardless, the wrangling over obscure parliamentary proceedings remains a sidelight to the larger dynamic of the Build Back Better Act.
    — San Diego Union-Tribune, 27 Oct. 2021
  • Also, a sidelight of curiosity is that Duchess of Cambridge (formerly Kate Middleton) has a maternal grandmother who comes from a lineage of laborers and miners.
    — Razib Khan, Discover Magazine, 29 Apr. 2011
  • The front door features sidelights and a five-pane transom window while black shutters and crisp white trim contrast nicely with the siding, said Sonia Peck, who is handling the sale of this home with Brigitte Richter, both of William Pitt Sotheby’s International Realty.
    — James Alexander, Hartford Courant, 5 Apr. 2026

Some of these examples are programmatically compiled from various online sources to illustrate current usage of the word 'sidelight.' Any opinions expressed in the examples do not represent those of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback about these examples.

Last Updated: