circus

Example Sentences

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As she drifts through town, feeling suddenly shorn of her identity, she comes across a traveling circus and is somehow taken on as a volunteer for the sawing-in-half trick, which involves hiding inside a box.

From The Wall Street Journal

We went ’round the back afterwards, and talked to the circus people.

From Literature

“It’s a circus of miscalculation. Everything about it is wrong,” he said.

From Salon

For Glass, they may take on deeper meaning now that the circus is where he landed 26 operas later.

From Los Angeles Times

A juggler too advanced for the circus, language’s great folk hero.

From Los Angeles Times