fairground

Example Sentences

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On the night of the quinceañera in Alice, Pulido made a second stop at a birthday party at the Jim Wells County fairground.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 5, 2026

A fairground train carrying children made its way through the crowd, its Christmas soundtrack drowned out by the supportive honks of cars.

From Barron's • Dec. 23, 2025

"We know what our limit is and we will never exceed it: we are not fairground monkeys."

From BBC • Jul. 15, 2025

Children played on fairground rides designed by the world's greatest artists for a single summer before they disappeared for decades.

From BBC • Dec. 22, 2024

The fairground man on the Great Silvestro's Flying Tea-Cups locked the padded bars that'd stop me, Dean, Floyd Chaceley, and Clive Pike from being flung halfway to Orion.

From "Black Swan Green" by David Mitchell