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• The carnival games were unfairly difficult, and hardly anybody won a prize.From the entry unfairly
• If the town doesn't have a nearby fairgrounds, then any sizeable empty field will do for a carnival.From the entry fairgrounds
• The carnival game involved shooting down tin cans.From the entry shoot down
• He kept a low profile during the carnival.From the entry keep a low profile
• This was no innocuous donnybrook but a veritable carnival of thuggee.2002, Joseph O'Connor, Star of the Sea, Vintage, published 2003, page 223. From the entry donnybrook
• Geeking, unsurprisingly, was among the first carnival acts to be outlawed as the 20th century unfurled.1995, Jack Hunter, Inside Teradome, page 23. From the entry geek
• Where irising began and ended a happy carnival sequence, an underlying feeling of chaos was created.1976, Allan Casebier, Film Appreciation, New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, Part 1, p. 22. From the entry irising
• For some years past the zanánas have celebrated the Holi as a carnival.1911, A Glossary of the Tribes and Castes of the Punjab and North-West Frontier Province. From the entry zenana
• While the city’s two other protest sites across Victoria Harbor retain their carnival mood, Mongkok, in Kowloon, remains on edge.2014 October 22, Dennis Chong, “Hong Kong protesters add helmets to their umbrellas”, in Taipei Times, sourced from AFP, HONG KONG, →ISSN…. From the entry Mongkok
• Vevčani has held a Twelfthtide carnival on 13 and 14 January every year since the middle of the 6th century.2012 May, Thammy Evans, “Pelagonia, Prespa and Pelister”, in Macedonia: The Bradt Travel Guide, 4th edition, Chalfont St. Peter…. From the entry Twelfthtide
• The carnival moves through raucous celebrations climaxing on Mardi Gras (Fat Tuesday), and is over on Ash Wednesday.2007, Ryan ver Berkmoes, Western Europe, Lonely Planet, →ISBN, page 1007. From the entry mardi gras
• In Italy, as in Rabelaisian France, the carnival entered not only elite theatrical performance and engravings but also the printed word.2006, Todd P. Olson, “The Street Has Its Masters: Caravaggio and the Socially Maerginal”, in Genevieve Warwick, editor, Caravaggio…. From the entry Rabelaisian
• Peter Clifford needs to take down Mike Brunley and his carnival of carnal hijinxs to make Upton's exposure truly sensational.2001, Leo F. White, Dirty Pictures, BookBaby, →ISBN. From the entry hijinxs
• The 10 song-and-dance numbers include candombe rhythms, with African roots, but the music is mostly murga, Uruguayan carnival sounds.1999 August 1, Alvin Klein, “Cheating Death, Uruguayan Style”, in The New York Times, →ISSN. From the entry candombe
• Lloyd's Prayer includes several ingeniously loopy spiels from Lloyd in his carnival huckster-televangelist modes, but Kling insists he's not antireligion.1988 September 23, Hugh Boulware, “On Stage: all things crass and kitschy”, in Chicago Reader. From the entry antireligion
• Then he hunted for the black carnival domino, supposing that it was the appropriate thing for a penitent to wear.1983, Lawrence Durrell, Sebastian (Avignon Quintet), Faber & Faber, published 2004, page 1007. From the entry domino
• Consider, for example, the phenomenon of carnival glass.1983, Ford Times, volume 76, number 4, page 23. From the entry carnival glass
• Using Sun for Profit Recommended as a natural for beaches and carnivals are "sun tantoo" designs offered by Great-Circle Products,.1944 July 15, The Billboard, volume 56, number 29, Nielsen Business Media, Inc., →ISSN, page 50. From the entry tantoo
• It’s a creaky old Victorian mansion, full of overstuffed chairs, flocked wallpaper, stained glass, creepy carnival curios, and dozens and dozens of clocks.2018 September 19, Katie Rife, “Eli Roth, of all directors, brings Amblin magic to the kid-lit horror of The House With A Clock In Its…. From the entry curio
• Finally, theology nowadays needs the vision and the courage, the fantasy and the carnival of bordercrossing, transgressing old boundaries, disciplines, and commonly assumed nonassumptions.2013, Hans-Peter Geiser, The Community of the Weak, →ISBN. From the entry nonassumption
• Such things, maskings, and disguisings, and dressing up, sometimes in incredible and wild fashions, are all part of the fun of carnival.1984, John Norman, Players of Gor. From the entry masking
• Known also as taffeta glass, it got its more popular name from the fact it was once given away as prizes in carnivals.1983, Ford Times, volume 76, number 4, page 23. From the entry carnival glass
• In the Latin category, dancers begin the round in carnival mode, bouncing and curving voltas traveling down the length of the floor, emoting happy celebration in a Brazilianesque samba.2017, Laurie Frederik, “Painting the Body Brown and Other Lessons on How to Dance Latin”, in Laurie Frederik, Kim Marra, Catherine…. From the entry emote
• This "Lone Ranger" begins and ends in a flash-forward, with an elderly Tonto installed in a carnival diorama behind a sign that reads "The Noble Savage."2013, “Depp’s Tonto: an upgrade on a stereotype or just an updated stereotype?”, in The Washington Post. From the entry flashforward
• For all the breeds and breeding on display at this most elegant of kyoodle carnivals, there is a wonderful sameness about people who go to the dogs.2013, Red Smith, Daniel Okrent, American Pastimes: The Very Best of Red Smith, →ISBN. From the entry kyoodle
• The entire medieval development of the menippea is permeated with elements of local carnival folklore and reflects the specific features characteristic of various periods in the Middle Ages.2009, Harold Bloom, Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoevsky, →ISBN, page 48. From the entry menippea
• At carnival he is the leaping, prancing masker, his body daubed with black or blue paint, sometimes with molasses, who threatens to besmear spectators unless they pay him off.1972, Errol Hill, The Trinidad Carnival: Mandate for a National Theatre, Austin, Tx.; London: University of Texas Press, →ISBN, page 109…. From the entry jab molassie
• In the carnival circuit, he'd have some preliminary bum in some ringsider's lap in two rounds, but the champ, who is no camp stool. don't fold up so easy.1940 January, "Cauliflower-Face Flaherty" (real identity unknown), “Muscle over Mind”, in Chess Review. From the entry fold up
• Sometimes this goes to the point of losing the perspective of the real Christmas thought, and we are inclined to turn the Christmas into a carnival of a Santa Claus-mas.1940 December 19, Cornelia C. Hodges, “Let the Spirit Catch Up”, in California Democrat, volume 82, number 20, California, Mo., →OCLC…. From the entry Santa Claus-mas
• All carnivals, circusses, etc., were kept under observation during their stay in the Province, and a number of objectionable features eliminated, gambling outfits seized, and the operators prosecuted and convicted.1930, Sessional Papers - Legislature of the Province of Ontario, volume 5, page 13. From the entry circusses

Meaning of carnival

1. noun Any of a number of festivals held just before the beginning of Lent.
2. noun A festive occasion marked by parades and sometimes special foods and other entertainment.
3. noun A traveling amusement park, called a funfair in British English.

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How do you use carnival in a sentence?

Carnival is used as a noun and verb. For example: “We all got to ride the merry-go-round when they brought their carnival to town.”

What is a short sentence with carnival?

“Carnival of Brazil”

What does carnival mean?

Carnival means any of a number of festivals held just before the beginning of Lent.