How to Use merry-go-round in a Sentence

merry-go-round

noun
  • Park in the upper lot for the merry-go-round and head toward the trail.
    Kelcie Pegher, Los Angeles Times, 7 Sep. 2023
  • There's even a swing and a merry-go-round to keep the fun going all day long.
    Esther Carlstone, Parents, 3 Aug. 2023
  • In a sequence of images, Shaun rides the merry-go-round once more with Glassman.
    Bryan Alexander, USA TODAY, 22 May 2024
  • Come up with the title of a good piece of music for this subzero merry-go-round.
    The Week Staff, The Week, 21 Apr. 2023
  • The 49ers went through a merry-go-round of quarterbacks and finished last season with no healthy QBs.
    Tyler Dragon, USA TODAY, 11 Aug. 2023
  • Carrie, a consultant in Portland, Oregon, had a great name for the whole concept: the merry-go-round.
    Liz Krieger, Harper's BAZAAR, 9 Aug. 2023
  • The mall’s merry-go-round was brought in from another location.
    Jazz Tangcay, Variety, 27 Feb. 2023
  • In the neighborhood’s public park, all that remained of a children’s merry-go-round that had been set on fire was its iron structure.
    Constant Méheut, BostonGlobe.com, 1 July 2023
  • As the lovely New Moon lands in your busy 3rd house, don't be shocked if your life seems to become a merry-go-round of appointments and get-togethers at the drop of a hat.
    Tarot Astrologers, Chicago Tribune, 20 Mar. 2023
  • Lightfoot had to grin because that's the gold ring in the music industry merry-go-round: the album that gives the artist independence for the rest of his life.
    Bob Talbert, Detroit Free Press, 2 May 2023
  • Emma happens upon a glowing merry-go-round, beckoned by the sound of a baby’s voice.
    Abbey White, The Hollywood Reporter, 17 Oct. 2023
  • Add-on accessories like merry-go-rounds, centrifugal funnels, and mills help the marble to pick up speed.
    Dorian Smith-Garcia, Parents, 22 Oct. 2023
  • Grainge rode this merry-go-round of mergers and acquisitions to greater power.
    John Seabrook, The New Yorker, 29 Jan. 2024
  • Human children indulge in spinner bowls at playgrounds and in merry-go-rounds, carousels and carnival rides that spin them through the air.
    Shayla Love, Scientific American, 28 Mar. 2023
  • For kids, there are games, an adventure park with swings and a merry-go-round, a ball pit, coloring and a contest to find Grandpa Gummy Bear.
    Chandra Fleming, Detroit Free Press, 16 Mar. 2023
  • But in addition to the merry-go-round seventh Friday, Suárez gave up three runs in the first inning of his previous outing.
    Jacob Calvin Meyer, Baltimore Sun, 18 May 2024
  • The air throbs with dread-inducing electronic tones; the five other cast members enter and sit with their backs to her, not yet caught up in her sad merry-go-round.
    Helen Shaw, The New Yorker, 9 Mar. 2023
  • Numerous friends of Gagosian’s cautioned me not to mistake the merry-go-round of parties and galas and superyacht cruises for a life of sybaritic leisure.
    Patrick Radden Keefe, The New Yorker, 24 July 2023
  • In the never-ending merry-go-round of trending dietary supplements (Buy charcoal to detox your body!
    Antara Sinha, Bon Appétit, 21 Mar. 2024
  • The pavilion was the backdrop of childhood picnics, school field trips and afternoons spent on the nearby playground, where Young and her friends would jump onto the swings or the spinning merry-go-round.
    Eleanor McCrary, The Courier-Journal, 26 July 2023
  • Rounding out the merry-go-round of awful is the fact that depleting groundwater wells also deforms the landscape.
    Darren Orf, Popular Mechanics, 1 Sep. 2023
  • Gemini May 21-June 20 The merry-go-round is currently slowing down as the ground beneath your feet stabilizes.
    Tarot Astrologers, Chicago Tribune, 24 Mar. 2023
  • Features in the new areas include a crab trap-rope feature, Alpha Tower, slides, a bridge, chimes along the sidewalk and the wheelchair-accessible merry-go-round.
    Sue Kiesewetter, The Enquirer, 3 Sep. 2023
  • So like a merry-go-round, for example, would be an example of a vertical axis-type system.
    Steven Strogatz, Quanta Magazine, 28 June 2023
  • After a few more turns on the conversational merry-go-round, and exactly 30 minutes later, Putin brought the discussion to a close.
    Mathias Döpfner, Fortune, 19 Sep. 2023
  • Rodriguez, the Orioles’ top pitching prospect who is vying for a spot in the starting rotation, allowed five runs in the third frame — his third consecutive game with a merry-go-round inning.
    Jacob Calvin Meyer, Baltimore Sun, 23 Mar. 2023
  • The party continued the following day with a festival-style event complete with a fairground of carnival games, a merry-go-round, a ferris wheel and food stalls at Windsor Great Park.
    Stephanie Petit, Peoplemag, 14 Feb. 2024
  • Keith Haring’s cartoon avatars, brought to candy-lacquered life as large seats on his merry-go-round, seem finally to have found their natural habitat.
    Walker Mimms, New York Times, 4 Jan. 2024
  • When school lets out in the afternoons, the vendor Alvaro García watches as parents take their children to the old-fashioned merry-go-round next to his outdoor artesanía, or handicrafts, stand.
    Héctor Tobar Deb Leal, New York Times, 1 June 2023
  • The Florida dance-pop duo built a literal playground on which to perform, sporting a giant swing set, merry-go-round, trampoline, and even monkey bars with synth pads installed on each rung.
    Althea Legaspi, Rolling Stone, 4 Aug. 2023

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