How to Use merry-go-round in a Sentence

merry-go-round

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  • 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
  • The merry-go-round used to actually be in that mall, but it was moved to a horse jumping place called Spruce Meadows.
    — Emily Zemler, Condé Nast Traveler, 13 Mar. 2023
  • Not that he’s conflicted in the least: Rather than hop back on the merry-go-round with Jason Alexander, Larry opts to sell cars.
    — Larry Fitzmaurice, Vulture, 8 Apr. 2024
  • For the next fourteen years, Kennedy has said, his life was a merry-go-round of chasing a high and coming down into a deep despair.
    — Clare Malone, The New Yorker, 5 Aug. 2024
  • 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
  • Guests followed their carriage to the fields near their home, where the reception featured fairground rides including a merry-go-round, an onlooker told the outlet.
    — Eva Hartman, Los Angeles Times, 24 June 2024
  • 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

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