circus
Example Sentences
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Filled with photos and memorabilia, the coffee table book reflects on the "40 years since I quit my day job and ran off to join the circus".
From BBC
I was recently in Greece with my six children—a country in demographic freefall—and we were treated like a traveling circus.
It has everything: cyphers, priceless antiquities, a rogue circus troupe.
From Salon
They don’t have any excitement in their own lives, so they put him on the same pedestal as the circus performers in “Freaks” or Gwynplaine in “The Man Who Laughs.”
From Salon
The queens cut their teeth performing in bars, burlesque theaters, punk venues and even a circus, where they learned to entertain by pulling together subversive and mainstream references.
From Los Angeles Times
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