How to Use merry-go-round in a Sentence

merry-go-round

noun
  • Park in the upper lot for the merry-go-round and head toward the trail.
    Kelcie Pegher, Los Angeles Times, 7 Sep. 2023
  • There's even a swing and a merry-go-round to keep the fun going all day long.
    Esther Carlstone, Parents, 3 Aug. 2023
  • That started the merry-go-round of players there in 2024.
    Chuck Murr, Forbes, 21 Dec. 2024
  • In a sequence of images, Shaun rides the merry-go-round once more with Glassman.
    Bryan Alexander, USA TODAY, 22 May 2024
  • And the merry-go-round of yelps and vocal chops at its core gleam like Christmas morning.
    Pitchfork, 5 Dec. 2024
  • And the merry-go-round of yelps and vocal chops at its core gleam like Christmas morning.
    Pitchfork, 5 Dec. 2024
  • The coaching carousel spun at its usual brisk pace, and the quarterback merry-go-round is about to do the same.
    Joseph Person, The Athletic, 24 Feb. 2025
  • Come up with the title of a good piece of music for this subzero merry-go-round.
    The Week Staff, The Week, 21 Apr. 2023
  • The 49ers went through a merry-go-round of quarterbacks and finished last season with no healthy QBs.
    Tyler Dragon, USA TODAY, 11 Aug. 2023
  • The merry-go-round used to actually be in that mall, but it was moved to a horse jumping place called Spruce Meadows.
    Emily Zemler, Condé Nast Traveler, 13 Mar. 2023
  • Not that he’s conflicted in the least: Rather than hop back on the merry-go-round with Jason Alexander, Larry opts to sell cars.
    Larry Fitzmaurice, Vulture, 8 Apr. 2024
  • For the next fourteen years, Kennedy has said, his life was a merry-go-round of chasing a high and coming down into a deep despair.
    Clare Malone, The New Yorker, 5 Aug. 2024
  • The merry-go-round, as Jackson calls it, is inescapable when discussing this Australian project.
    Beren Cross, The Athletic, 24 Jan. 2025
  • Carrie, a consultant in Portland, Oregon, had a great name for the whole concept: the merry-go-round.
    Liz Krieger, Harper's BAZAAR, 9 Aug. 2023
  • Just look at the merry-go-round that has been Connor Bedard’s top line in the ongoing pursuit to get his offense on track.
    Phil Thompson, Chicago Tribune, 27 Nov. 2024
  • Just look at the merry-go-round that has been Connor Bedard’s top line in the ongoing pursuit to get his offense on track.
    Phil Thompson, Chicago Tribune, 27 Nov. 2024
  • The mall’s merry-go-round was brought in from another location.
    Jazz Tangcay, Variety, 27 Feb. 2023
  • In the neighborhood’s public park, all that remained of a children’s merry-go-round that had been set on fire was its iron structure.
    Constant Méheut, BostonGlobe.com, 1 July 2023
  • As the lovely New Moon lands in your busy 3rd house, don't be shocked if your life seems to become a merry-go-round of appointments and get-togethers at the drop of a hat.
    Tarot Astrologers, Chicago Tribune, 20 Mar. 2023
  • Lightfoot had to grin because that's the gold ring in the music industry merry-go-round: the album that gives the artist independence for the rest of his life.
    Bob Talbert, Detroit Free Press, 2 May 2023
  • The jagged shadows of buttes and spires disappeared and reappeared, a merry-go-round of angles cast on to the cascading rocks cradling the Colorado River.
    Lane Sainty, The Arizona Republic, 3 Nov. 2024
  • Emma happens upon a glowing merry-go-round, beckoned by the sound of a baby’s voice.
    Abbey White, The Hollywood Reporter, 17 Oct. 2023
  • Add-on accessories like merry-go-rounds, centrifugal funnels, and mills help the marble to pick up speed.
    Dorian Smith-Garcia, Parents, 22 Oct. 2023
  • Grainge rode this merry-go-round of mergers and acquisitions to greater power.
    John Seabrook, The New Yorker, 29 Jan. 2024
  • Human children indulge in spinner bowls at playgrounds and in merry-go-rounds, carousels and carnival rides that spin them through the air.
    Shayla Love, Scientific American, 28 Mar. 2023
  • For kids, there are games, an adventure park with swings and a merry-go-round, a ball pit, coloring and a contest to find Grandpa Gummy Bear.
    Chandra Fleming, Detroit Free Press, 16 Mar. 2023
  • But in addition to the merry-go-round seventh Friday, Suárez gave up three runs in the first inning of his previous outing.
    Jacob Calvin Meyer, Baltimore Sun, 18 May 2024
  • The air throbs with dread-inducing electronic tones; the five other cast members enter and sit with their backs to her, not yet caught up in her sad merry-go-round.
    Helen Shaw, The New Yorker, 9 Mar. 2023
  • Numerous friends of Gagosian’s cautioned me not to mistake the merry-go-round of parties and galas and superyacht cruises for a life of sybaritic leisure.
    Patrick Radden Keefe, The New Yorker, 24 July 2023
  • Half marathon participants will meander through the park on a path with minimal hills, taking them past the merry-go-round, L.A. Zoo and more.
    Jaclyn Cosgrove, Los Angeles Times, 30 Jan. 2025

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