How to Use carny in a Sentence

carny

noun

• Why did the carny let the sucker win the giant teddy bear?
  — WIRED, 23 Jan. 2023
• The format is a stop-gap, a novelty, an experiment with a hint of carny.
  — Christopher Borrelli, chicagotribune.com, 20 Sep. 2020
• Most of all, it’s filled with a carny’s pure joy in his capacity to wow, astonish, and entertain.
  — Noah Berlatsky, The Verge, 13 Nov. 2018
• This is a vision of the nation that has been sold to us by a generation of politicians who talk brave and act gutless, and by the carny shills in the employ of the industries of death.
  — Charles P. Pierce, Esquire, 2 Oct. 2017
• In Guillermo del Toro's film noir, a very ambitious carny (Bradley Cooper) conjures up a golden ticket to success by swindling the elite of 1940s society.
  — Chaise Sanders, Country Living, 13 May 2022
• The two fighters have kept the fires burning in the four years since the fight, occasionally promising a rematch even though Mayweather is now 42 and subsisting on carny fights against MMA stars and kickboxers.
  — Matt Bonesteel, The Denver Post, 24 July 2019
• On Friday, carny Daman Munk was making ready his mechanical bull for the paying customers, who will begin arriving Saturday for the fair’s nine-day run.
  — Steve Rubenstein, SFChronicle.com, 7 June 2019
• It’s about an itinerant carny (Cooper, in a roll originated by Tyrone Power) who learns the secrets of a mind-reading act and uses them to take advantage of wealthy but gullible victims.
  — Jim Kiest and Deborah Martin, San Antonio Express-News, 13 Dec. 2021
• But his museums had venues for dramas and became family affairs with discount tickets for the kiddies — doing for theater what Walt Disney would do for the carny amusement park.
  — Jack Hitt, Washington Post, 18 Oct. 2019
• As the morality play unfolds in its otherwise predictable path, Pinocchio must first contend with enslavement by an evil carny (Christoph Waltz), then conscription into the Italian armed forces.
  — Michael O'Sullivan, Washington Post, 14 Nov. 2022
• Another carny, Molly (Rooney Mara), a beacon of uncorruptible sympathy, becomes Stan’s next stepping stone, stage partner and wife.
  — Michael Phillips, chicagotribune.com, 15 Dec. 2021
• Parker’s narration of the film adds another layer to the experience, as the former carny–turned–rock and roll manager is an unreliable narrator if ever there was one.
  — Grant Wong, Smithsonian Magazine, 23 June 2022
• Barnum displayed physical freaks; psychoanalyst Krafft-Ebing categorized and explained mental freaks; carny Daniel Mannix showed that geeks were just like you and me.
  — Charles Paul Freund, WIRED, 1 Oct. 2000
• Combining old-fashioned practicality with the shameless hustle of a sideshow carny and driven by a narcissistic thirst for attention, Davis, who patented the body armor in the early 1970s, certainly makes for a timely protagonist.
  — Michael Rechtshaffen, Los Angeles Times, 1 Dec. 2022

Last Updated: 24 Jul 2024