bread and circuses
Example Sentences
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They’re capitalist endeavors, not charity cases, whose stated mission is to provide bread and circuses to the masses while making as much profit as possible in the process.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 21, 2025
It will be bread and circuses, only with no bread.
From Salon • Nov. 26, 2024
But you are certainly not the only person who, when blessed with a larger paycheck, chooses not to spend it all on high-end bread and circuses.
From Slate • Jul. 7, 2021
“Nobody Speak” is a chilling, essential primer in how we got here and where we’re going if bread and circuses continue to win the news cycle.
From Washington Post • Jun. 22, 2017
It required a great deal of money to support the luxurious court of the emperors and their innumerable officials and servants, and to supply "bread and circuses" for the populace of the towns.
From An Introduction to the History of Western Europe by Robinson, James Harvey
