carnival
Example Sentences
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“It sounds like a great idea, and totally doable. Boat races, some food trucks, some carnival games.”
From Literature
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It turns the world into a carnival of danger and desperation.
Most of the dead were students returning from a carnival weekend.
From Barron's
“So tell me, what did you think it would be like then, some kind of a carnival, a fireworks display perhaps?”
From Literature
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Sir Stephen Fry, Hay Festival president, described the event as a "carnival of ideas", while former US President Bill Clinton once called it the "Woodstock of the mind".
From BBC
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.