Definition of Sidetracked

1. Verb. (past of sidetrack) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Sidetracked

1. sidetrack [v] - See also: sidetrack

Lexicographical Neighbors of Sidetracked

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sidestepping
sidesteps
sidestream
sidestreams
sidestroke
sidestrokes
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sideswiped
sideswipes
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sidetone
sidetones
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Literary usage of Sidetracked

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Law of Loss and Damage Claims: Including the Cummins Amendment, Bill of by Herbert Confield Lust (1919)
"A railroad is not required to watch a car of livestock sidetracked in a railroad yard to see that it is not injured and moved. Illinois Central R. Co. v. ..."

2. The American and English Railroad Cases: A Collection of All Cases Affecting by Frank Cyrus Smith, Thomas Johnson Michie, United States Courts, Great Britain Courts, Canada Courts (1906)
"... and, when sidetracked to allow another train to pass, required the red lights to be removed or turned and green displayed toward the expected train when ..."

3. A Digest of Decisions Including Dicta Under the Federal Safety Appliance and by Otis Beall Kent (1915)
"... while it-was tied up and sidetracked on their siding, constituted no portion of the period of duty covered by the Act. The duties of an engine watchman, ..."

4. The Young Man Entering Business by Orison Swett Marden (1903)
"Many instances could be given of able artists who have gained considerable reputation in this country as well as abroad, but have been sidetracked because ..."

5. Hearings Before the Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce of the by United States, Congress, House (1906)
"1 think, a number of places, finally arriving at Valley at 4.10 in the morning, and were sidetracked there until 8.30 before they put us up to the chutes, ..."

6. The Federal Railway Digest by William James Ingersoll (1916)
"The fact that, when a train was sidetracked short of destination after 16 hours of service, it could not have been moved ..."

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