CIRCUS in a Sentence

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28 example sentences for CIRCUS, such as:

1. She ran away to join the circus.
2. Church ain't shucks to a circus.
3. The trial has turned into a media circus.
4. There's things going on at a circus all the time.
5. The children were spellbound by the circus performance.

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 Meanings and Examples of CIRCUS
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
circus
 n.  public entertainment by acrobats, clowns, and trained animals
Classic Sentence: (19 in 2 pages)
1  Church ain't shucks to a circus.
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer By Mark Twain
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VII
2  There's things going on at a circus all the time.
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer By Mark Twain
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VII
3  But they cared nothing for marbles, or circus, or swimming, or anything.
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer By Mark Twain
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVI
4  They would have given anything to have that swarthy sun-tanned skin of his, and his glittering notoriety; and Tom would not have parted with either for a circus.
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer By Mark Twain
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVIII
5  Well, I'll have pie and a glass of soda every day, and I'll go to every circus that comes along.
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer By Mark Twain
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXV
6  We struck it mighty lucky; there was going to be a circus there that afternoon, and the country people was already beginning to come in, in all kinds of old shackly wagons, and on horses.
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn By Mark Twain
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXI.
7  The circus would leave before night, so our show would have a pretty good chance.
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn By Mark Twain
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXI.
8  I went to the circus and loafed around the back side till the watchman went by, and then dived in under the tent.
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn By Mark Twain
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXII.
9  Well, all through the circus they done the most astonishing things; and all the time that clown carried on so it most killed the people.
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn By Mark Twain
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXII.
10  The streets were black with loafing negroes who leaned against walls or sat on the curbing watching vehicles go past with the naive curiosity of children at a circus parade.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXIII
11  The music was a reminiscence of tom-toms heard at circus fortune-telling tents or at the Minnesota State Fair, but the whole company pounded and puffed and whined in a sing-song, and looked rapturous.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VI
12  We bound it between pasteboards, which I covered with brilliant calico, representing scenes from a circus.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1. The Shimerdas: XI
13  It was all in one great room, like a circus amphitheater, with a gallery for visitors running over the center.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 3
14  The youth thought of the village street at home before the arrival of the circus parade on a day in the spring.
The Red Badge of Courage By Stephen Crane
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 5
15  An impromptu circus, fox and geese, and an amicable game of croquet finished the afternoon.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER TWELVE
Example Sentence:
1  The couple married in the Caribbean to avoid a media circus.
2  The trial has turned into a media circus.
3  She ran away to join the circus.
4  The children were spellbound by the circus performance.
5  The circus is planning to pull out of the suburb park tomorrow morning.
6  I am not an animal rights person, but training animals to perform in a circus is cruelty.
7  No need to distract from the center ring of this circus.
8  Finally it occurred to them that their naked skin represented flesh-colored "tights" very fairly; so they drew a ring in the sand and had a circus -- with three clowns in it, for none would yield this proudest post to his neighbor.
9  "Say, Huck, if we find a treasure here, what you going to do with your share?" "Well, I'll have pie and a glass of soda every day, and I'll go to every circus that comes along."