calliope
Example Sentences
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Try a few, crank up the calliope and make your own show.
From New York Times ● Mar. 25, 2021
Linthicum also contributes saloon piano and calliope organ, as well as weepy steel guitar on “Old Fashioned Man,” a country waltz about not dancing.
From Washington Times ● Dec. 9, 2020
Her six-year-old feet skimming swiftly over battered gray grass, twinkly, too-bright colored lights, shards of mirror, the wild music of a steam calliope.
From The Verge ● Feb. 8, 2019
It was performed exclusively by kids -- little kids, bigger kids, teenagers – but was a full-on big top experience, with sawdust and a calliope, acrobats and aerialists.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 7, 2018
It was the steam calliope on the Case Special, flinging a tune to the four winds.
From "The Teacher’s Funeral" by Richard Peck
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