carny

Example Sentences

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Director “Baz Luhrmann wanted the carny world to provide an enticing location for Parker to cast his spell.”

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 27, 2023

I’m a carny, and I’ve left the tent.

From Seattle Times • Feb. 20, 2023

In Guillermo del Toro’s noir telling of a carny who hustles his way to the big time, the carnival scenes are cast in a color palette that has a somewhat muted vibrancy.

From New York Times • Jan. 11, 2022

"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

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.