Examples of carny in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web The first Schmigadoonian to get his own song is future inevitable Tony Award–winner Aaron Tveit as Danny Bailey, a rough-and-tumble (well, in musical-theater terms) carny who closely resembles Carousel’s tragic Billy Bigelow. — Jackson Mchenry, Vulture, 19 July 2021 The phrase, brandished on the rear-end of Dream’s tights, was a nod to Vince McMahon possibly calling Velveteen dream up to the main roster, though Triple H went full carny in explaining otherwise. — Alfred Konuwa, Forbes, 20 May 2021 The cast is an embarrassment of riches with Bradley Cooper as the ambitious carny, Cate Blanchett as a manipulative psychiatrist, and Willem Dafoe, Toni Collette, Richard Jenkins, Ron Perlman, and Rooney Mara also appearing. — Alison Willmore, Vulture, 5 Jan. 2021 The format is a stop-gap, a novelty, an experiment with a hint of carny. — Christopher Borrelli, chicagotribune.com, 20 Sep. 2020 But his museums had venues for dramas and became family affairs with discount tickets for the kiddies — doing for theater what Walt Disney would do for the carny amusement park. — Jack Hitt, Washington Post, 18 Oct. 2019 The two fighters have kept the fires burning in the four years since the fight, occasionally promising a rematch even though Mayweather is now 42 and subsisting on carny fights against MMA stars and kickboxers. — Matt Bonesteel, The Denver Post, 24 July 2019 The two fighters have kept the fires burning in the four years since the fight, occasionally promising a rematch even though Mayweather is now 42 and subsisting on carny fights against MMA stars and kickboxers. — Matt Bonesteel, courant.com, 24 July 2019 On Friday, carny Daman Munk was making ready his mechanical bull for the paying customers, who will begin arriving Saturday for the fair’s nine-day run. — Steve Rubenstein, SFChronicle.com, 7 June 2019

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