big top

Example Sentences

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Having a permanent theater rather than a roving big top immediately upped Cirque’s game, Baldwin said.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 29, 2023

Scouting For Girls, Britpop band Suede and DJ Jo Whiley with her 90s anthems are all set to top the bill in the big top arena.

From BBC • Nov. 2, 2023

Nik Wallenda, the headliner, can trace his big top lineage back nearly 250 years, as can his 69-year-old mother, Delilah Wallenda, who helps him onto that wire.

From New York Times • Nov. 25, 2022

Interestingly, I think that Simone Biles and Naomi Osaka made it okay for big top male athletes to feel comfortable saying that they, too, struggle with their own mental health.

From Seattle Times • Dec. 14, 2021

Out my window, I watch us rise higher and higher above Jackson; over the coliseum with its big top, the skyscrapers, the governor’s mansion, and churches downtown; the busy interstate, the sleepy suburbs.

From "The Manifestor Prophecy" by Angie Thomas