clown (around)

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for clown (around)
Verb
  • Running or horsing around with sparklers can also cause injuries and burns when users trip and fall.
    Justin Laube, EverydayHealth.com, 2 July 2025
  • Heath Ryan, who represented Australia in dressage at the 2008 Olympics, can be seen in the video – which the rider said is about two years old – hitting a horse around 40 times.
    Matias Grez, CNN Money, 13 June 2025
Verb
  • Gisin hopes that by fooling around with measurements of these more exotic states, physicists will come to better understand the role of measurement in general.
    Quanta Magazine, Quanta Magazine, 8 Aug. 2025
  • Those have come from two players: Adrian Morejon of the San Diego Padres, who throws an odd knuckleball-changeup hybrid about 1 percent of the time, and Jonah Bride of the Minnesota Twins, an infielder fooling around with the knuckler in blowouts.
    Cody Stavenhagen, New York Times, 19 June 2025
Verb
  • The highlight of his night was a quick-out, in which Jefferson made the initial defender miss, then cut up field, hit his top gear and went 65 yards to the house for a score.
    Jace Frederick, Twin Cities, 23 Aug. 2025
  • Simply cut up a few different fruits and place them on a skewer.
    Carrie Madormo, Verywell Health, 21 Aug. 2025
Verb
  • But outgoing Milwaukee Symphony Music Director Ken-David Masur has packed his concluding season here with major choral works to show off the Milwaukee Symphony Chorus in its 50th year.
    Jim Higgins, jsonline.com, 5 Sep. 2025
  • There will be an array of events the weekend of September 26 to 28 at the Joseph—from a cooking class led by Top Chef champ Mei Lin to wine tastings to a cocktail mixology course—with the tentpoles being a pair of dinners that will show off very different styles of cooking.
    Nicole Hoey, Robb Report, 4 Sep. 2025
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“Clown (around).” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/clown%20%28around%29. Accessed 5 Sep. 2025.

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