How to Use calliope in a Sentence

calliope

noun

• Calliope music blared from the kiddie rides just a few hundred feet from the area where bleating sheep were being judged for best in show.
  — Suzanne Baker, Naperville Sun, 28 July 2017
• The calliope sound, mixed with tambourines and drums, rounds out the merry-go-round experience.
  — Dawn Mitchell, Indianapolis Star, 5 May 2017
• Just as the calliope music entices young children to chase such trucks on summer streets, the burly Bearcats swarmed around the vendor as if Earth's last cones were being served.
  — Scott Springer, Cincinnati.com, 16 Aug. 2017
• The calliope is playing on the Mark Twain riverboat while visitors cheer the frog-jump competition.
  — Paul Meincke, chicagotribune.com, 10 Aug. 2017
• History unfolds in a circus of tweets and surprises, with Mr. Trump playing all the roles: roaring lion and trapeze artist, clown and calliope.
  — Lance Morrow, WSJ, 22 June 2018
• The haunting calliope music by jazz pianist Jason Moran is based on African American protest and celebration songs.
  — Doug MacCash, NOLA.com, 23 Feb. 2018
• Such as Saturday morning’s Double Take Parade, in which costumed twins and their family members walk alongside themed floats as an old calliope plays carnival tunes.
  — Emma Ockerman, Washington Post, 6 Aug. 2017
• Music will be provided by Irish musicians, a Chinese instrumental group and an old-fashioned calliope.
  — Katharina Woodman, The Mercury News, 20 Sep. 2019
• Since it was invented in the 19th century, calliopes have been associated with riverboats and traveling circuses -- the instrument's sounds were deemed too harsh and too loud for the liturgical settings for which it was created.
  — Pelican Bomb, NOLA.com, 7 Mar. 2018

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