Sideline in a sentence as a noun

BGE wasn't ignored because anyone on the dev team wanted to sideline it.

They're an attempt to sideline it, and effectively shut it down.

Money is a sideline invention we did to make it possible to pay soldiers for fighting.

I do a sideline of decrapifying people's laptops as well and I haven't had to reinstall a thing.

If every "dinner with a friend" or "I have to work late" is going to sideline you, then how the **** are you supposed to do anything?

Tesla is doing this because if given half a chance car dealers will sideline if not outright sabotage any EV that attempts to succeed in the market.

Sideline in a sentence as a verb

If you've convinced yourself that you're never going to achieve the success of a modestly successful consultant with a sideline business in bingo card software, then you're right.

I was in part inspired to actually get off my duff and write Bingo Card Creator because somebody wrote about their experience with making and selling skeet shooting software as a sideline business.

That would be an extraordinary dangerous decision for them, because they're now running their merchant payments operation as a sideline to currency speculation.

Not to intend to hijack this thread with a sideline, but I find it interesting that the author's problems were caused by the mushrooms he consumed in Amsterdam, at a time when doing so was presumably still legal in The Netherlands.

Or do shrug and accept the premise that the US and the Russian government, which runs a sideline business in murdering inconveniently critical journalists, are somehow morally equivalent?

Sideline definitions

noun

a line that marks the side boundary of a playing field

noun

an auxiliary line of merchandise

noun

an auxiliary activity

See also: avocation by-line hobby pursuit

verb

remove from the center of activity or attention; place into an inferior position; "The outspoken cabinet member was sidelined by the President"