How to Use three-ring circus in a Sentence
three-ring circus
noun-
And a bit like a three-ring circus, not knowing which group to focus on.
— Don Sweeney, sacbee, 8 May 2018 -
Mahomes and his three-ring circus are a bad matchup for a lot of defenses, even good ones.
— Jonas Shaffer, baltimoresun.com, 1 Oct. 2020 -
Co-owner Bobby Lee described it as a three-ring circus that happens to sell steaks.
— Chris Quintana, USA TODAY, 14 Apr. 2020 -
The Cal product struggled out of the gate and never quite found his footing in Kyrie Irving’s three-ring circus, failing to build on the impressive growth from his sophomore season.
— Michael Shapiro, SI.com, 15 Aug. 2019 -
The American three-ring circus came of age at precisely the same historical moment as the U.S. itself.
— Janet M. Davis, Smithsonian, 22 Mar. 2017 -
Every May is a three-ring circus, Carpenter said, and his team is plenty experienced at dealing with the noise and focusing on the mission at hand.
— Jim Ayello, Indianapolis Star, 7 Mar. 2018 -
Ordinarily, this wouldn’t have anyone in the shebeen looking up from their pints, but the IOP has made a real three-ring circus out of its fellowship program this time around.
— Charles P. Pierce, Esquire, 14 Sep. 2017 -
And actually getting to eat instead of playing fetch with Matchbox cars or putting on a one-parent three-ring circus to entertain a kid who's thisclose to a meltdown.
— Kim Fusaro, Woman's Day, 14 Feb. 2012 -
There's no doubt some of Sittenfeld's allies have been disappointed in him for his role in turning City Hall into a three-ring circus, and it's raised questions about his ability to be the city's future top leader.
— Jason Williams, Cincinnati.com, 29 July 2019 -
Sunday presented something of a three-ring circus setting at Augusta.
— Doug Ferguson, Star Tribune, 4 Apr. 2021 -
The extraordinary success of the giant three-ring circus gave rise to other forms of exportable American giantism, such as amusement parks, department stores, and shopping malls.
— Janet M. Davis, Smithsonian, 22 Mar. 2017 -
But a general decline in newspaper readership and the recession of the 1990s, followed by a three-ring circus of corporate leadership at The Times, would be the undoing of the paper’s Orange County edition.
— Los Angeles Times, 26 Apr. 2022 -
Motherhood can be hard, especially now when moms are homeschooling their kids, acting as short-order cooks, and playing ring master of a seriously crazy three-ring circus—all while trying to maintain their sanity.
— Katie Bowlby, Country Living, 7 May 2020 -
Further, in my 20 years as a (former) journalist covering hundreds of local government meetings—including some that were wildly dysfunctional—the only close analogy would be the three-ring circus that was the Town of Cicero’s public proceedings.
— chicagotribune.com, 14 Oct. 2019
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