How to Use three-ring circus in a Sentence

three-ring circus

noun

• And a bit like a three-ring circus, not knowing which group to focus on.
  — Don Sweeney, sacbee, 8 May 2018
• Mahomes and his three-ring circus are a bad matchup for a lot of defenses, even good ones.
  — Jonas Shaffer, baltimoresun.com, 1 Oct. 2020
• Co-owner Bobby Lee described it as a three-ring circus that happens to sell steaks.
  — Chris Quintana, USA TODAY, 14 Apr. 2020
• The Super Bowl is like photographing a football game in the middle of a three-ring circus.
  — Emily Jan, San Francisco Chronicle, 11 Feb. 2026
• Not to mention that Taylor’s productions are like three-ring circuses.
  — David Fear, Rolling Stone, 30 June 2023
• As real estate agent Greg, Matt Rogers makes for a delightful ringmaster of this three-ring circus.
  — Alison Herman, Variety, 12 Dec. 2024
• Sunday presented something of a three-ring circus setting at Augusta.
  — Doug Ferguson, Star Tribune, 4 Apr. 2021
• And actually getting to eat instead of playing fetch with Matchbox cars or putting on a one-parent three-ring circus to entertain a kid who's thisclose to a meltdown.
  — Kim Fusaro, Woman's Day, 14 Feb. 2012
• Every May is a three-ring circus, Carpenter said, and his team is plenty experienced at dealing with the noise and focusing on the mission at hand.
  — Jim Ayello, Indianapolis Star, 7 Mar. 2018
• Democrats, who slammed the impeachment inquiry as a political stunt, described the Republican conference as a three-ring circus.
  — Marianna Sotomayor, Leigh Ann Caldwell, Amy B Wang, Jacqueline Alemany, The Washington Post, Anchorage Daily News, 15 Sep. 2023
• The Cal product struggled out of the gate and never quite found his footing in Kyrie Irving’s three-ring circus, failing to build on the impressive growth from his sophomore season.
  — Michael Shapiro, SI.com, 15 Aug. 2019
• Ordinarily, this wouldn’t have anyone in the shebeen looking up from their pints, but the IOP has made a real three-ring circus out of its fellowship program this time around.
  — Charles P. Pierce, Esquire, 14 Sep. 2017
• The extraordinary success of the giant three-ring circus gave rise to other forms of exportable American giantism, such as amusement parks, department stores, and shopping malls.
  — Janet M. Davis, Smithsonian, 22 Mar. 2017
• Motherhood can be hard, especially now when moms are homeschooling their kids, acting as short-order cooks, and playing ring master of a seriously crazy three-ring circus—all while trying to maintain their sanity.
  — Katie Bowlby, Country Living, 7 May 2020
• Life gets serious enough, after all—as does Facebook, what with the constant political brawling, and let's not even get started on the total three-ring circus Twitter has turned into lately.
  — Jill Gleeson, Country Living, 17 July 2023
• As of right now, Zipolite is less accessible than other popular Mexican beach destinations — than, say, the three-ring circus that has subsumed Cancún.
  — Jenna Wortham, New York Times, 22 Mar. 2023
• The household in the 1970s was routinely described as a three-ring circus filled with rowdy kids, lost pets and haggard servants who often quit in frustration, saying Ethel was difficult to work for.
  — Valerie J. Nelson, Los Angeles Times, 10 Oct. 2024
• There's no doubt some of Sittenfeld's allies have been disappointed in him for his role in turning City Hall into a three-ring circus, and it's raised questions about his ability to be the city's future top leader.
  — Jason Williams, Cincinnati.com, 29 July 2019
• Indeed, the three-ring circus (the packed venues, rows of photographers crowding street corners, and heavy traffic) often associated with New York Fashion Week will presumably be absent.
  — Barry Samaha, Harper's BAZAAR, 27 Aug. 2020
• The genre at large, especially in its broadcast form, failed pretty spectacularly to make its three-ring circus of topical comedy, celebrity kibitzing, and live music thrive under ringmasters who weren’t white, male, middle-aged avatars of our societal default.
  — Judy Berman, Time, 22 May 2026
• Udo Kier is the perverted master of ceremonies in this three-ring circus of deviancy from director Paul Morrissey, which takes Frankenstein’s romantic necrophilia and distills it to its glistening, taboo essence.
  — Katie Rife, Vulture, 9 Nov. 2025
• Further, in my 20 years as a (former) journalist covering hundreds of local government meetings—including some that were wildly dysfunctional—the only close analogy would be the three-ring circus that was the Town of Cicero’s public proceedings.
  — chicagotribune.com, 14 Oct. 2019
• But a general decline in newspaper readership and the recession of the 1990s, followed by a three-ring circus of corporate leadership at The Times, would be the undoing of the paper’s Orange County edition.
  — Los Angeles Times, 26 Apr. 2022