ringmaster

Example Sentences

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In King’s telling, this odd couple largely drove the movement to turn Yellowstone into a national park: Muir the “Poet, heart and soul of their two-man preservation movement, and Johnson the ringmaster.”

From Los Angeles Times

“We have the most beautiful bunker in Ukraine,” said the elevator operator of the Penthouse Club, a small grandmotherly woman in a ringmaster’s costume.

From Washington Post

Capitol and murders of Black people at the hands of police and vigilantes fresh in our shared consciousness, Weems once again takes up the role of ringmaster.

From New York Times

“I’m applying for chancellor, not to be a circus ringmaster,” he told women’s magazine Brigitte.

From Reuters

The problem here is the ringmaster — or lack thereof.

From Washington Post