Example Sentences

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A brass band played lively jazz, while a man made giant bubbles with a pair of sticks and clowns sold balloon animals.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 7, 2026

Say you don’t pay much attention to the nitty-gritty of politics and think they’re all a bunch of clowns.

From Slate • Apr. 18, 2026

He drank tall glasses of orange juice in seedy dives as he infiltrated an underworld of bank-robbing clowns and bird-obsessed mobsters.

From Salon • Jan. 23, 2026

Growing up in Chicago, Piller and her mother performed as clowns at birthdays and company picnics.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 30, 2025

There was a reason he was one of the class clowns, after all.

From "Hopping Mad (The Hardy Boys: Secret Files, #4)" by Franklin W. Dixon