How to Use freak show in a Sentence

freak show

noun

• If sports is a carnival, the A’s are the midway freak show.
  — Scott Ostler, San Francisco Chronicle, 6 May 2023
• Pick your poison—a cult, a coven, a murder house, a freak show?
  — Lauren Chval, RedEye Chicago, 30 Oct. 2017
• Rick and Cliff have a front-row seat to the freak show that twisted the hippie ethos into a call for blood.
  — Laura Demarco, cleveland.com, 24 July 2019
• His era was an unprecedented freak show for the 450-foot home run.
  — Tom Krasovic, sandiegouniontribune.com, 25 Jan. 2018
• Indeed, Ballengée takes many steps to ensure that his project doesn’t amount to some kind of frog freak show.
  — Kyle Hill, Discover Magazine, 8 Apr. 2014
• At the wheel of this desert-racing, quasi-retro freak show is its proud papa, Jim Glickenhaus.
  — Daniel Pund, Car and Driver, 15 Mar. 2020
• The hawker is always full of pompous boasts — lies — and the freak show behind him is sad and disappointing.
  — Anchorage Daily News, 28 Jan. 2018
• The Wasilla grower is no stranger to the freak show that rolls out every year at the fair’s vegetable competitions.
  — Zaz Hollander, Anchorage Daily News, 31 May 2020
• That Trump-DeSantis freak show hasn’t fully taken off, at least not yet.
  — Alex Thomas, The New Republic, 28 Sep. 2022
• Now) Step right up for a pretty lip balm with a buildable brick-red tint in packaging that channels the old-timey freak shows of Coney Island.
  — Meirav Devash, Allure, 6 Oct. 2017
• Alabama’s freak show of an offense has the potential to be the best in the history of college football.
  — Joseph Goodman | [e-mail], al, 27 Aug. 2019
• In other words, Bosa vs. Murray, a meeting that could be dubbed the freak show, has the potential to become a long-running, must-see series.
  — Eric Branch, SFChronicle.com, 29 Oct. 2019
• The artist now is trying to recapture his experiences as a boy in Long Beach, Calif., when circuses and freak shows came to town.
  — Brenda Cronin, WSJ, 26 Apr. 2018
• The thrill never dies Finding actors who could sing opera tinged with rock and fill out a freak show was an especially fun nightmare.
  — Andrea Simakis, cleveland.com, 7 Jan. 2018
• Hellzapoppin', which claims to be the world's largest touring freak show, is coming to Winter Park on Wednesday, June 27, bringing fire, swords and beds of nails.
  — Trevor Fraser, OrlandoSentinel.com, 27 June 2018
• Around a corner, a visitor comes face-to-face with artifacts from a freak show that was part of the Sells-Floto Circus a century ago.
  — Carl Nolte, San Francisco Chronicle, 23 Mar. 2018
• Conventions have always been these bizarre combinations of state fair, freak show, and prom.
  — The Atlantic, 21 Aug. 2020
• Based on a true story, the play is about a Mexican woman with excessive body hair and enlarged facial features who was sold to a freak show.
  — Shannon Sutlief, Dallas News, 30 July 2020
• The premise of freak show, that the fringe operated outside the normal workings of American politics, has decayed over the years.
  — Jonathan Chait, Daily Intelligencer, 23 Feb. 2018
• To put it politely, American food television is a freak show.
  — John Anderson, WSJ, 13 July 2017
• Baartaman’s case, her large butt and dark skin made her the object of fascination by Europeans who painted her as a savage and freak show for profit.
  — Mikeisha Vaughn, Essence, 2 Apr. 2020
• Furthermore, the fourth season describes an American freak show and its struggle for survival.
  — Toby Grey, BGR, 16 Sep. 2022
• As Huang reveals, the twins were much more than a freak show spectacle — strivers, showmen and slaveholders who settled in rural North Carolina, country squires who loved to hunt and fish.
  — Vanessa Hua, San Francisco Chronicle, 10 May 2018
• In short, Minaya's tenure was very on brand given the Mets' perpetual status as one of baseball's more eccentric freak shows.
  — Jon Tayler, SI.com, 22 Dec. 2017
• That was the boy’s father, the monster of this midway, the snarling, glowering freak show who found some of his most honorable work at a traveling carnival in the Midwest, taking on all comers.
  — Gregg Doyel, Indianapolis Star, 19 Oct. 2017
• The novel recounts the history and hardships of the Binewski clan, carnival folk whose pater- and materfamilias, Al and Crystal Lil, create their own freak show.
  — Elizabeth Hand, Washington Post, 11 Nov. 2022
• Conservatives who are real conservatives don’t ape the social-justice left and make politics a daily freak show.
  — Peggy Noonan, WSJ, 14 Dec. 2017
• But Reeves’ movie, tilting into emo freak show with Robert Pattinson leading an impeccable cast, is so masterfully made.
  — Borys Kit, The Hollywood Reporter, 31 Dec. 2022
• No one reading this publication is interested in the incredibly ugly, vile and vapid Kardashian pig turd and her circus freak show life.
  — Nina Braca, Billboard, 5 Jan. 2018
• As the 1973 Academy Awards receded into history, the whole thing cemented into a pop-culture punch line: preening actor, fake Indian, kitschy Hollywood freak show.
  — Michael Schulman, The New Yorker, 27 Sep. 2022

Last Updated: 9 Nov 2024