sideline - use in sentences

Preposition: through

  • injury: Meanwhile, Oxford defender Gavin Johnson faces a spell on the sidelines through injury.

Object

  • player: With a few players sidelined due to injury the Harlequins brought in some new players to the team.

Adjective modifier

  • lucrative: I always thought it was a vocation they felt to serve their fellow man, not a lucrative sideline.
  • profitable: Based on volumes they are shipping, this can be a profitable sideline for them.
  • interesting: The WMD scam was an interesting sideline to it.
  • nice: Several big players only exist on the web and there are many traditional traders running a nice little sideline in online transactions too.

Preposition: of

  • conference: Ecevit met Iraqi Foreign Minister Naji Sabri on the sidelines of an international conference in Istanbul.

Modifying Another Word

  • effectively: Parliament is effectively sidelined from the center of British political life.
  • increasingly: Yet Africa is increasingly sidelined from any benefits from trade.
  • largely: The concerns and demands of developing countries were largely sidelined and no significant agreements were made to make trade fairer.
  • completely: The concept of a development round was completely sidelined.
  • currently: His is a timely arrival is Grant is currently sidelined with a kidney injury.

Preposition: with

  • injury: Danny Coyne remains on the sidelines with a long term knee injury.

Preposition: for

  • rest: Mark Saunders is sidelined for the rest of the season with a broken leg.
  • month: Grainger, who has been sidelined for months due to injury is making a comeback to Kuala Lumpur.

Preposition: by

  • injury: The return of Lescott, sidelined by injury last season, has strengthened Wolves ' defense.

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