How to Use roller-coaster in a Sentence

roller-coaster

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• The picks come on the heels of a roller-coaster week for Wall Street.
  — Samantha Subin, CNBC, 9 Aug. 2024
• Every one of you knows the journey, the roller-coaster ride, the ups and downs.
  — Carly Thomas, The Hollywood Reporter, 26 Feb. 2023
• Bitcoin prices have been on a roller-coaster ride over the past few months.
  — Vinamrata Chaturvedi, Quartz, 12 Apr. 2024
• The car jerked like a roller-coaster cart as my tires, new ones at that, lost contact with the road.
  — Lisa Gutierrez, Kansas City Star, 13 June 2024
• All of that paled, however, next to the epic Tom-and-Shiv roller-coaster ride.
  — Brian Lowry, CNN, 7 May 2023
• The stock has since been on a roller-coaster ride: the shares surged as much as 700% within days of their debut and then plunged to a record-low this week.
  — Nguyen Kieu Giang, Fortune, 20 Oct. 2023
• That’s the word to best describe the emotional roller-coaster of the Moorpark High baseball team over the last two weeks.
  — Eric Sondheimer, Los Angeles Times, 2 June 2024
• The roller-coaster in stocks carries some key lessons for investors and consumers alike.
  — Aimee Picchi, CBS News, 9 Aug. 2024
• The ups and downs of presidential approval ratings have the feel of a roller-coaster ride.
  — Michael Gfoeller and David H. Rundell, Newsweek, 15 Jan. 2025
• Still, this race has been a roller-coaster ride where each candidate has careened from the dumps to the heights, only to crash again.
  — Shawn Tully, Fortune, 29 Oct. 2024
• The stock market has found some footing over the last week after a roller-coaster start to the year where a swift rise gave way to a sharp tumble.
  — Stan Choe, ajc, 6 Mar. 2023
• Eaton, who upgraded from bronze three years ago, was asked about the roller-coaster final.
  — David Wharton, Los Angeles Times, 29 July 2024
• Meanwhile, Taran Noah Smith, who played the youngest brother on the show, had a roller-coaster ride after the series ended.
  — Chris Gardner, The Hollywood Reporter, 22 June 2023
• The wrangling comes against the background of a roller-coaster week of events and conflicting emotions for Israelis and Gazans.
  — Isabel Kershner, New York Times, 13 June 2024
• But the familiar sights, sounds, and smells all returned once the gun went off, and the roller-coaster ride plunged down Route 135 toward Ashland.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 12 Apr. 2023
• The bond, solidified over three roller-coaster years, was more than enough.
  — Daniel Popper, The Athletic, 8 Jan. 2025
• The Jacksonville Jaguars are having a roller-coaster season.
  — Thomas G. Moukawsher, Newsweek, 1 Dec. 2024
• Pete Alonso's free agency has been quite the roller-coaster ride.
  — Zach Pressnell, Newsweek, 24 Jan. 2025
• With its roller-coaster feel, it’s often named as a favorite track among drivers.
  — Brad Spurgeon, Robb Report, 11 Mar. 2024
• Saturday night was a wild roller-coaster ride for the Cincinnati Bengals.
  — Ryan Morik, Fox News, 29 Dec. 2024
• The crackdown is the latest dizzying swerve in the country’s roller-coaster politics.
  — Christina Goldbaum, New York Times, 8 Feb. 2024
• Could Aston Martin’s roller-coaster fortunes be set for the biggest climb yet?
  — Mike Duff, Car and Driver, 26 June 2023
• The result has been a roller-coaster ride for animation.
  — Tracy Brown, Los Angeles Times, 13 June 2023
• And Black men in hip-hop exist in an endless loop of roller-coaster success, hazy self-worth, bullets, fame and its cousin, paranoia.
  — Danyel Smith, New York Times, 8 Aug. 2023
• The Longhorns squeaked into the semifinal by emerging from a roller-coaster of a game over Arizona State in double-overtime.
  — Asher Price, Axios, 9 Jan. 2025
• For most fans, this show isn’t so much about watching her career flash before their eyes — although there’s that — but their own roller-coaster lives.
  — Chris Willman, Variety, 12 Oct. 2023
• But the relationship itself should not send you on a daily roller-coaster ride.
  — Amy Dickinson, Detroit Free Press, 2 Jan. 2024
• The roller-coaster ride hasn’t stopped, but Segarra’s learned to appreciate that their grief, too, is an expression of love.
  — Jeff Gage, Rolling Stone, 1 Mar. 2024
• The Trump administration’s tariff policy sent stocks on a roller-coaster ride on Monday, and further tumult could be ahead for investors.
  — Darla Mercado, Cfp®, CNBC, 4 Feb. 2025
• He’s become poised to the point of being unrecognizable from his Young Josh days as a gunslinging, sometimes reckless quarterback who sometimes took himself, his teammates and Bills fans on Sunday roller-coaster rides.
  — Tom Krasovic, San Diego Union-Tribune, 25 Jan. 2025

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roller coaster

2 of 2 noun

• We went for a ride on the roller coaster.
• The divorce was an emotional roller coaster for both of them.
• The three years since have been a roller coaster for the Colts.
  — Matthew Vantryon, The Indianapolis Star, 29 Aug. 2022
• The roller coaster ride known as 2024 is nearing the end of the track.
  — Adam Tamburin, Axios, 23 Dec. 2024
• And for the kids who live for the thrill, there's The Dragon roller coaster.
  — Forrest Brown, CNN, 9 July 2021
• And it’s just been this roller coaster of ups and downs.
  — Peter Sblendorio, New York Daily News, 17 Jan. 2025
• But this year, the ice has been on a kind of roller coaster ride.
  — Anchorage Daily News, 4 Apr. 2022
• The park has 11 roller coasters and is the first amusement park in the Six Flags franchise.
  — Ella Gonzales, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 23 May 2024
• Some of the drums rattle like loose bolts on a roller coaster.
  — Spencer Kornhaber, The Atlantic, 11 Jan. 2022
• The need for speed:Kings Island, Cedar Point roller coasters among fastest in the world.
  — Chad Murphy, The Enquirer, 28 Nov. 2024
• And on the flip side, of course, biotech is known for its sort of roller coaster nature.
  — Adam Feuerstein, STAT, 10 Nov. 2021
• The last two years have been quite the roller coaster for Whitney Port, and the ride is not over just yet.
  — Abigail Adams, PEOPLE.com, 26 June 2021
• The program has faced a roller coaster of court challenges over the years.
  — Juan A. Lozano, The Christian Science Monitor, 14 Sep. 2023
• Stock prices shoot up and down like a roller coaster ride, and who knows when the whole thing might crash?
  — The Salt Lake Tribune, 11 Nov. 2021
• The next two decades were a roller coaster: Smith used, then quit, then used more, then quit again.
  — Lev Facher, STAT, 26 Mar. 2024
• The theme park plans to open its new Pipeline roller coaster this spring.
  — Dewayne Bevil, Orlando Sentinel, 6 Feb. 2023
• The plane yawed left and right, dipped and climbed to avoid the flocks, churning my stomach like a roller coaster.
  — Smithsonian Magazine, 10 July 2023
• And the yen isn’t alone in riding the currency roller coaster.
  — The Editorial Board, WSJ, 4 July 2023
• This led me to live on a roller coaster without brakes.
  — Stewart Clarke, Deadline, 10 Feb. 2025
• New year, new chance to get off the emotional roller coaster of the past two years.
  — Harry Guinness, Wired, 4 Jan. 2022
• But the car's 53-year history has been a bit of a roller coaster.
  — Dan Edmunds, Car and Driver, 16 May 2022
• Read the full guide here:Cedar Point roller coasters in your future?
  — Katie Wiseman, The Indianapolis Star, 16 May 2024
• My life is a roller coaster of in and out of confidence.
  — Nancy Tartaglione, Deadline, 8 Jan. 2025
• The past few years have been a roller coaster ride for legal cannabis in the United States.
  — Igor Dunaevsky, Rolling Stone, 8 June 2022
• New ride: Cedar Point will debut a new roller coaster, Wild Mouse, at the park in 2023.
  — Mike Rose, cleveland, 12 Aug. 2022
• Since then, it’s been a roller coaster of on-again, off-again sightings.
  — Jenzia Burgos, StyleCaster, 17 Aug. 2024
• And this year, the roller coaster climb and fall has defined both Clarkson and Utah.
  — The Salt Lake Tribune, 18 Apr. 2022
• Ride time for the 1.4-mile track on the roller coaster is four minutes, 10 seconds.
  — Emily Deletter, The Enquirer, 14 Apr. 2022
• Some parts of the fair are geared for kids, others for a mixed crowd, like the pirate ship and roller coasters.
  — Tribune Content Agency, The Mercury News, 7 Oct. 2024
• On Friday, the Jacksonville Jaguars officially announced Coen as their new head coach, which came after a roller coaster of a week.
  — Ryan Canfield, Fox News, 25 Jan. 2025

Last Updated: 4 Mar 2025