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Plural of sideline

regular plural

The plural of sideline is sidelines.

Forms of sideline

Singularsideline /ˈsaɪdlaɪn/
Pluralsidelines /ˈsaɪdˌlaɪnz/
Countablecountable

Sidelines in a sentence

  • The coach stood on the sidelines and bellowed commands at the team.
  • to relegate to the sidelines
  • Goalkeeper Manuel Neuer, Philipp Lahm, Mario Gomez, Franck Ribery and Thomas Mueller all watched from the sidelines.2011 December 7, Phil McNulty, “Man City 2 - 0 Bayern Munich”, in BBC Sport. From the entry group stage
  • Every time one of us fumbled with the choppers, it drew laughter from the sidelines.2009, John Higham, 360 Degrees Longitude: One Family's Journey Around the World, Alyson Publications. From the entry choppers
  • A group of Black women came in later but only observed from the sidelines.1986, Chaya Shalom, “The only dyke from Israel”, in Off Our Backs, volume 16, number 8, →JSTOR, page 26. From the entry black

Meaning of sideline

  1. noun A line at the side of something.
  2. noun Something that is additional or extra or that exists around the edges or margins of a main item.
  3. noun A line for hobbling an animal by connecting the fore and the hind feet of the same side.

Full definition of sideline

Questions about the plural of sideline

What is the plural of sideline?
The plural of sideline is sidelines.
Is sideline countable?
Sideline is a countable noun.

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: sideline (page history and authors) and the entries of its forms. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws left out forms marked obsolete, archaic, rare or dialectal and added the examples. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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