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How to use carnival in a sentence

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Children in outriggers surrounded the ship for the better part of the day, making the entire affair seem like a county carnival.
He eventually found work with a carnival, and later made his way into vaudeville as a juggler.
He said while there was a carnival atmosphere in the showgrounds there was also some very serious competitions to be adjudicated on.
Storr then describes the carnival of Junkanoo, which to him demonstrates the work ethic still alive in today's Bahamian culture.
Historically the carnival replaced the Whit walks and was held in Deepdale because that's where the majority of the West Indian population lived.
Numerous family events were held over the August weekend including a carnival and demonstrations from birds of prey.
Almost 50 town centre shops are giving up some of their window space to support carnival week.
Last year, I lived within walking distance of the carnival route, and I went in both days to soak up the atmosphere.
It would include a carnival procession, medieval banquet, bands, an ox roasting and a traditional fair with crafts.
When Maria, Ben, Jennifer, Michael and I rendezvoused before the parade, I had no idea how the spirit of carnival would open Michael emotionally.
Horns, whistles and Caribbean sounds resonated across the city as up to 100,000 people enjoyed the West Indian carnival yesterday.
The carnival at Marlborough is to be relaunched at a public meeting in the New Year in a bid to revive its popularity.
In a culture famous for its libidinous ways, carnival is the wildest time of all.
Flags adorned every car, gate post and tractor and bunting aplenty created a carnival atmosphere.
Every carnival has a ringmaster and plenty of barkers, bearded ladies, strong men, wild animals and sad clowns.
The event was just like a carnival, with many thousands of residents lining the roadsides to watch the procession.
Overall, it wasn't nearly as fun as the log flume I rode at the carnival in Brahm.
The carnival is the equivalent to a big match day in terms of manpower, although it is usually peaceful.
The carnival parade on Sunday afternoon is something everyone looks forward to.
Mansfield Park has seen such an exodus of players during the summer that the turnstiles must have been rotating at the speed of a carnival ride.
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Theres going to be a big airship carnival next month, boys, said Andy Rush, who seemed to keep abreast of aeronautic matters.
If many people went to the carnival they must have approached it from the other direction.
It was Sunday, the first day of the carnival, and that devoted to the ball of the season.
It was Marr, though, who had seized upon it when it merely was a catchpenny carnival device and made of it a real money earner.
Then the man forming the hinder part of the carnival steed sprang quickly forth from beneath the horsecloth.
They say that you want to give your daughter in marriage to a someone in a carnival costume?
Sky, water, grass scampered like merry ghosts through the carnival of the shopping center.
At the scooter club they found an ancient carnival device which used to be called a motordrome.
A careful examination of human beings during this hebdomadal period of carnival leads us to question the doctrine.
It is the year's carnival ere the dull Lenten days of leafless valleys and penitential mists come.
Devoted to masked balls during the carnival, they seek their luck there, though it often escapes them.
Many nations are represented, many languages spoken, many costumes worn, and on a sunny day the spectacle is as gay and brilliant as a carnival.
It was about dusk, one evening during the supreme madness of the carnival season, that I encountered my friend.
There are great, frowning precipices and much falling water, and Nature seem to have held sometime her carnival.
On a day of the carnival he had taken a notion to provide an unusual entertainment for that good town, of which he was the life and soul.
This wedlock was more serious than most affairs of Merry Mount, where jest and delusion, trick and fantasy, kept up a continual carnival.
A wide range of top-notch brands will be made available to the discerning shoppers in the carnival at the Dubai World Trade Centre.
Yet the Tykes were largely devoid of ideas and skill as an afternoon which began in such carnival atmosphere fell horribly flat.
Thalia kept carnival on the Danish stage, and Heiberg was her secretary.
This carnival of ribaldry seemed as some picture from the nether world.
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