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Example sentences for "sidelight"

Lexicographically close words:
sideboards; sided; sidedly; sidedness; sidehill; sidelights; sidelines; sideling; sidelong; sidenotes
  1. Before Franklin left France he longed to pay another visit to England, and this matter is touched upon in a letter to Vaughan which sheds a sidelight upon the intimacy which existed between the two men.

  2. Another sidelight upon the character of Franklin in his boyhood is found in connection with the caution in regard to England that he gave to Robert Morris in 1782, when the Revolutionary War was coming to an end.

  3. Incidentally, it also throws a further sidelight upon the part played by Leverkusen in the chemical warfare campaign.

  4. The fact that the thing was conceived and executed during the stress of war throws an interesting sidelight on German character.

  5. An interesting sidelight on these people is furnished by the statement that probably fifty of them could read though only three could write.

  6. Also it opens a pleasant sidelight on that oft-recommended tool--"feminine influence.

  7. Thomas, of Chicago, has given us a sidelight on this in his clever book about women, "Sex and Society.

  8. There is an interesting sidelight on slavery separations in this interview.

  9. There is also an interesting sidelight on C.

  10. I pasted the cutting into a scrap-book, determined that, if I lived to publish my account of those days, I would quote it therein as casting a sidelight upon Chinese character.

  11. It was a sidelight upon the character of the awful being with whom we had to deal.

  12. A lurid sidelight upon the doings and morals of those times is afforded by the circumstance that the skeleton was ultimately stolen by some sailors and pledged in satisfaction on a drink bill at one of the Gosport inns.

  13. These tears of memory were a sidelight to his real character, and I was convinced that if he shouldered arms at all these earlier friendships were held by such ties as were too sacred to be violated.

  14. Our first sidelight on this question came in rather a surprising manner.

  15. The general invasion of the system throws an interesting sidelight upon the subject of premonitions.

  16. This may throw a sidelight on the regard in which "American business methods" are held in some parts of the world.

  17. A sidelight on the first sentence above may be had from the Jewish statement regarding the British Declaration relating to Palestine: "This Declaration was sent from the Foreign Office to Lord Walter Rothschild.

  18. A strange sidelight on these days is thrown by the record that there was a pillory and tumbril as well as assize of bread in connection with this fair.

  19. Unhappily this romantic story, which casts a sidelight upon the manners and morals of those early times, and also upon the attitude of husbands towards their wives, is open to grave criticism regarding its authenticity.

  20. A most interesting document, and one which casts a clear sidelight on the divergence of opinion held in Germany and Great Britain, and on the chances of arriving at an agreement, is an article which dates from the latter part of 1911.

  21. One may perhaps get a further sidelight on the marvellous labyrinthic cave temples of the ancients by a reference to the so-called worm-knots or cup-and-ring markings on cromlechs and menhirs.

  22. This sidelight on the Earl is as much illumination as the story wants, for the moment.

  23. As an interesting sidelight he indicates that tobacco was being grown around Leesburg at that time.

  24. As a sidelight on Leesburg's evening diversions of the period, he writes under date of the 28th November that he "dined at Captn.

  25. The destruction by fire of the Mount Royal Club, frequented by the wealthiest and most important citizens, taking place this year is another sidelight calling attention to the growth of club life since the old Beaver Club days.

  26. Another financial sidelight is that in October of this year the Bank of Montreal issued its first notes like those of the Bank of England, the denominations being water-marked.

  27. A significant sidelight of a phase of the continued growth of Montreal is the signing, on November 7th, of the contract for the building of the new city prison at Bordeaux.

  28. He surmised that Frank had opened the splintered door, for in the dim sidelight of the hall he could see the flash of metal buttons on the dark blue uniform, and the outline of a patrolman’s cap.

  29. This is a curious sidelight on English political history.

  30. It is a depressing sidelight on human nature that the achievement of eminence brings with it the malice and spite of petty minds and no one of prominence can avoid becoming the target of stupid and unscrupulous attack.

  31. Perhaps a peculiar sidelight on human oddity was revealed in most of these suicides choosing to immolate themselves, not in the main body of the grass, but in one of the many smaller nuclei springing up in close proximity.


  32. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "sidelight" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.