How to Use thrill ride in a Sentence

thrill ride

noun
  • The kiosk is on the left as Tron ride passengers approach the ramp to the thrill ride.
    Dewayne Bevil, Orlando Sentinel, 29 Mar. 2023
  • Is the food the same brain-jangling thrill ride as the original?
    Bill Addison, Los Angeles Times, 18 Jan. 2024
  • Yet Kia's thrill ride is good enough to earn a silver medal.
    Tony Quiroga, Car and Driver, 28 June 2023
  • Fun for all ages, this thrill ride reaches up to 27 mph at the control of the rider.
    Zoe Denenberg, Southern Living, 30 June 2023
  • Splash Mountain, the log flume thrill ride themed around the dated and racist 1946 film, will close next month for a remodel.
    Vanessa Franko, Los Angeles Times, 13 Apr. 2023
  • And this year, with its Pleasure Park theme, ticket-holders are in for a thrill ride in a Broadway fantasy land.
    Keith Caulfield, Billboard, 4 May 2023
  • Different images point to a more promising path: A woman in the twilight of life, finally free to take a thrill ride that was denied her in youth.
    Bishop Sand, Washington Post, 6 Dec. 2023
  • The thrill ride, with white lattice supports for a distinctive one blue rail/one red rail design, opens to the public at Fun Spot Atlanta on Friday.
    Dewayne Bevil, Orlando Sentinel, 30 Mar. 2023
  • This time around, the teams came close to delivering that kind of thrill ride, with another finish that neither side will soon forget.
    Scott Miller, New York Times, 23 Mar. 2023
  • For Guiney, Poor Things has been a decade-long thrill ride on Lanthimos’ fantastical roller coaster.
    Zoe G Phillips, The Hollywood Reporter, 26 Feb. 2024
  • And while the plot of this movie is a little all over the place and weird, the set pieces—particularly one that takes place both inside and on Dubai's Burj Khalifa—make this a joyful thrill ride of a movie.
    Evan Romano, Men's Health, 11 July 2023
  • When SeaWorld unveils its next big attraction, don’t expect yet another thrill ride with hair-raising twists and turns.
    Lori Weisberg, San Diego Union-Tribune, 28 Sep. 2023
  • For example, adrenaline-seekers can line up for a thrill ride on the Flying Dutchman water coaster.
    Elizabeth Rhodes, Travel + Leisure, 8 June 2023
  • Featuring one of the most chilling endings of all time, Invasion of the Body Snatchers remains a tense thrill ride and a powerful commentary on paranoia.
    Janey Tracey and Kevin Jacobsen, EW.com, 5 Aug. 2023
  • Thirty years later, Sly summits the mountain yet again for another high-altitude thrill ride.
    Rebecca Rubin, Variety, 16 May 2023
  • Also, Dollywood's newest roller coaster Big Bear Mountain — a two-minute, 3,990-foot thrill ride — will return for its second season.
    Rachel Chang, Travel + Leisure, 7 Mar. 2024
  • Expedition Everest is a thrill ride that involves train cars going up steep inclines and drops, and has segments where the ride vehicle goes backwards or is in complete darkness.
    Esme Mazzeo, Peoplemag, 15 Dec. 2023
  • If Splash Mountain had the illusion of peril and danger — a rabbit being hunted by a fox and a bear — Tiana’s argues that a thrill ride, one complete with a 50-foot, soak-inducing drop, can be a jovial, celebratory affair.
    Todd Martens, Los Angeles Times, 11 June 2024
  • Even if some of this once again will fly over the heads of the youngest audience members, the thrill ride of Joy & Co. facing endless setbacks while trying to stop out-of-control Anxiety is amply compelling even without the psychological framework.
    David Rooney, The Hollywood Reporter, 12 June 2024
  • Although the series was unceremoniously canceled after leaving ABC for Netflix, that shouldn't deter you from going on this thrill ride.
    Keith Nelson, Men's Health, 20 July 2023
  • Set in Havana, this action-horror-comedy hybrid turns the parody up several notches and morphs its zombie apocalypse into a Cuban thrill ride that is entirely its own.
    Deanna Janes, Harper's BAZAAR, 4 Aug. 2023
  • What follows is a series of melodramatic twists and complicated characters with nefarious agendas that results in a wild thrill ride.
    Alamin Yohannes, EW.com, 15 Mar. 2023

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