How to Use circus in a Sentence

circus

noun

• We're going to the circus.
• He worked for a small circus.
• In 2013, Swift appeared in the middle of a white, red and black circus.
  — Bryan West, USA TODAY, 1 Feb. 2024
• Like a circus tent with a nautical flair, the bold turquoise and white stripes bring the space to life.
  — Hadley Mendelsohn, House Beautiful, 21 Apr. 2023
• There’s no denying that this is a tricky time to be running a circus.
  — Marty Lasalle, WSJ, 13 Jan. 2024
• So, to prepare to swing from the rafters in the circus tent, Zendaya worked on her upper body and core strength.
  — Jacqueline Tempera, Women's Health, 7 Mar. 2023
• His circus shot drew the loudest pop from a noticeably pro-Auburn crowd to that point in the night.
  — Tom Green | [e-mail], al, 17 Mar. 2023
• It will now be handed over by the circus staff,’ Grando wrote.
  — Escher Walcott, Peoplemag, 13 Nov. 2023
• Conklin scoured the circus for water, but it had been used up — the elephants had been fed, the goat had been bathed, and all hope seemed lost.
  — Allison Robicelli, Washington Post, 21 June 2023
• With just two days left of shows, most of the fashion circus will be packing up and heading out by mid-week.
  — Amy Verner, Vogue, 4 Mar. 2024
• For a critic, living in this town is like going to the circus every day.
  — Mark Lamster, Dallas News, 11 Apr. 2023
• His grandfather was a clown, his father was both a trapeze artist and a clown, and his mother was a dancer in the circus.
  — Sam Hurwitt, The Mercury News, 16 Jan. 2024
• But if the onscreen hijinks were wild, the production was a circus.
  — Lester Fabian Brathwaite, EW.com, 16 Feb. 2023
• It’ll be played in full this summer, complemented by the Lips’ bizarro, one-of-a-kind circus of a live show.
  — Journal Sentinel, 31 May 2023
• Once again, he’s caught in a pop-media circus — which is also a moral circus.
  — Armond White, National Review, 27 Sep. 2023
• Remember, though, there are three rings to this circus.
  — Andrew C. McCarthy, National Review, 8 Apr. 2023
• Enter Email Sign Up The show is a complete rethink of a modern circus.
  — Mark Kennedy, BostonGlobe.com, 21 Mar. 2023
• The whole thing turned into a very nerdy social-media circus.
  — Caroline Mimbs Nyce, The Atlantic, 5 Aug. 2023
• Some of last year’s shelves will be replaced by circus wagons this year, for instance.
  — Paul Nicolaus, Smithsonian Magazine, 18 Jan. 2024
• There’s only so much room on the stage — maybe five or six spaces at most — and all of us have a circus of ideas parading across the stage every hour of the day.
  — Marshall Bergmann, Quartz, 24 Feb. 2023
• The yearly circus of the Academy Awards is easy to cast aspersions on.
  — Fran Hoepfner, The Atlantic, 6 Mar. 2024
• For a critic, living in Dallas is like going to the circus every day.
  — Mark Lamster, Dallas News, 12 Apr. 2023
• To honor the centennial of Prince Rainier's birth and his love of the circus, there will be a few extra surprises in store for the guests.
  — Peter Mikelbank, Peoplemag, 15 Dec. 2023
• Well, the story goes in my family that there’s a great-great-something that was an aerialist in the circus.
  — Jon Blistein, Rolling Stone, 6 Dec. 2023
• True to the city's roots, Ringling used circus elephants to haul the timbers that were used to construct the causeway and bridge to connect St. Armands Key to the mainland.
  — Jacqueline Dole, Travel + Leisure, 14 Nov. 2023
• Now, the 787s have entered the circus: is this the start of a worrying trend of young widebody aircraft being retired too soon?
  — Jacopo Prisco, CNN, 10 Mar. 2023
• Perhaps circus season will fit you like a big, floppy shoe.
  — Los Angeles Times, 3 Mar. 2023
• The character with his paste-on mustaches, long hair and wall-size self portraits strides through the world like a circus ringleader.
  — Joan MacDonald, Forbes, 17 July 2023
• There is a seriousness to this, but also, a kind of circus atmosphere to it as well.
  — Taylor Wilson, USA TODAY, 25 Aug. 2023
• Letting the clowns run the flying circus, at least part-time, is integral to the history of Python’s success.
  — Jesse Green, New York Times, 16 Nov. 2023

Last Updated: 3 May 2024