carny

Example Sentences

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Once out of the carny racket, McCurdy became more famous in death than he had been in life.

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 4, 2025

I’m a carny, and I’ve left the tent.

From Seattle Times • Feb. 20, 2023

"We have been watched, scrutinized and judged. But as they watched us swim around, we have perfected our stroke! We were like carny people."

From Fox News • Jan. 1, 2022

And he smooth talks a cop out of shutting the carny down, showing how he can read a mark by his shoes.

From Salon • Dec. 18, 2021

How he just gave up and got a nice little white cottage some place and got a nice little low-paying job and lived unhappily ever after, because a carny isn't a healthy, well-adjusted life?

From Charley de Milo by Janifer, Laurence M.