Sidetrack in a sentence as a noun

As a slight sidetrack, Apple doesn't have that much cash in reserve.

It's annoying, but even worse, that kind of sidetrack can ruin sites by bringing in people who seek nothing more than to argue.

Oracle might want to consider paying $1B to the Postgres devs to sidetrack development for a few years like they did with MySQL.

Sidetrack in a sentence as a verb

Not to sidetrack things, but Manning was not a civilian, and thus does not enjoy the same freedoms under the law as a civilian.

Even if we'd attempted to raise money, the fundraising sidetrack would have set us back by a few more miles and I had zero additional bandwidth.

Sidetrack definitions

noun

a short stretch of railroad track used to store rolling stock or enable trains on the same line to pass

See also: siding turnout

verb

wander from a direct or straight course

See also: depart digress straggle