How to Use big top in a Sentence

big top

noun

• With the help of one of the three elephants, the beams are pulled into place and the big top rises.
  — Mary Ann Ashcraft, baltimoresun.com/maryland/carroll, 8 May 2021
• Shows take place under the big top tent in the parking lot of Florence Mall.
  — Luann Gibbs, The Enquirer, 15 Sep. 2021
• The Armstrong Bearcat band performs under the big top tent.
  — Joan Rusek, cleveland, 19 May 2022
• So, how can young people now dream of running away to a life under the big top?
  — CBS News, 14 June 2018
• When the lights darkened inside of the big top, kids cheered and waved flashing light wands around the arena.
  — Vincent Davis, ExpressNews.com, 14 Nov. 2020
• Telma became a dancer, drawing gasps and laughs on the floor under the big top.
  — Nina Strochlic, National Geographic, 27 July 2020
• Sarasota High School had a circus, a real one, with a big top and rings and a trapeze.
  — Lane Sainty, The Arizona Republic, 6 Aug. 2022
• Forty-four of the hotel’s rooms will be larger suites, with the biggest topping out at around 1,200 square feet.
  — Ben Mutzabaugh, USA TODAY, 16 Apr. 2018
• The Circus Vargas big top is back in San Diego after a pause longer than a year due to the pandemic.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 23 Feb. 2022
• Lichtenbaum bought a bag of peanuts for a nickel and entered the big top with his sister.
  — Daniela Altimari, courant.com, 7 July 2019
• The newest post on the company blog is all about the Pixel 4's big top bezel and the tech goodies contained within.
  — Ron Amadeo, Ars Technica, 29 July 2019
• As the Georgia primaries are likely to demonstrate, sometimes the circus moves on and the chief clown is left behind where the big top used to stand.
  — Walter Shapiro, The New Republic, 24 May 2022
• Bennett was gloriously over the top in the Belvedere big top on Friday, the first of her two nights to kick off the new normal at Crooners.
  — Jon Bream, Star Tribune, 24 Apr. 2021
• The Pixel 4 has a lopsided front design with a big top bezel and a smaller (but still there) bottom bezel.
  — Ron Amadeo, Ars Technica, 16 Oct. 2019
• In the big top heyday of the ’50s and ’60s, circus animals were viewed as exciting and glamorous.
  — Carolyn Wells, Longreads, 11 June 2021
• Begging the question: Will Reed Arena need a big top under its rooftop for the circus that might take place Wednesday?
  — Brent Zwerneman, San Antonio Express-News, 2 Mar. 2021
• And, yes, there is air conditioning under that big top.
  — Courant Staff, courant.com, 18 July 2019
• This is not the first time this anthology series, from Ryan Murphy and Brad Falchuk, has visited the big top for scares.
  — James Poniewozik, New York Times, 4 Sep. 2017
• There are less than 40 people total—who set up the big top, sell the tickets and concessions, perform the acts—everything.
  — National Geographic, 15 Dec. 2020
• According to eyewitness accounts, the 48-foot tall big top burned in less than 10 minutes.
  — Dave Altimari, courant.com, 7 Oct. 2019
• The circus is coming to town, but the shenanigans happening under this big top aren’t the typical clown, juggler and trapeze acts.
  — Richard Guzman, San Diego Union-Tribune, 8 Dec. 2023
• In an electric car, Ozdemir said Coil Driver tech could reduce the need to have multiple motors needed to achieve those hot 0-60 times and a big top speed number.
  — Bill Roberson, Forbes, 28 Feb. 2021
• As borders closed, Cirque had to race to load big top equipment on to giant cargo planes and repatriate 2,000 employees.
  — Dan Bilefsky, New York Times, 17 May 2020
• Back near the top of the West heap, and with the big top permanently up at the Steph Curry circus, the Warriors are enjoying a national renaissance.
  — Jeff McDonald, San Antonio Express-News, 3 Dec. 2021
• When the big top burned that day, killing 168 in one of the nation’s worst mass casualty disasters, 6-year-old Raymond somehow escaped.
  — Dave Altimari, courant.com, 7 July 2019
• Harden’s delayed start to the season and subsequent trade request was only icing on the circus big top.
  — Jeff McDonald, ExpressNews.com, 16 Dec. 2020
• Guests flood into the big top, their faces illuminated by bright spotlights.
  — Nina Strochlic, National Geographic, 27 July 2020
• Worse, Gilead’s big top line means that developing new drugs big enough to meaningfully boost sales has gotten tougher.
  — Charley Grant, WSJ, 10 Dec. 2018
• During the opening day of the feast on Monday, bilingual Masses were held throughout the evening in a big top tent, and many stayed for the midnight Mass, when congregants sang happy birthday.
  — Elizabeth Owens-Schiele, chicagotribune.com, 12 Dec. 2017
• The daring circus families who for 146 years performed death-defying acts under the big top tents.
  — Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 19 May 2022

Last Updated: 27 Jun 2024