How to Use roller-coaster in a Sentence

roller-coaster

1 of 2 adjective

• 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 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
• 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
• With its roller-coaster feel, it’s often named as a favorite track among drivers.
  — Brad Spurgeon, Robb Report, 11 Mar. 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
• 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
• For number theorists, 2012 was like a roller-coaster ride.
  — Manon Bischoff, Scientific American, 28 July 2023
• And now viewers are about to get treated to another roller-coaster ride of romance less than two months later.
  — Ree Hines, Forbes, 22 Mar. 2023
• Around a dozen passengers were trapped on a roller-coaster on Wednesday at Hong Kong Disneyland.
  — Patrick Frater, Variety, 7 Feb. 2024
• The first half of 2024 has been a serious roller-coaster ride for Trump Media & Technology Group.
  — Prarthana Prakash, Fortune, 25 June 2024
• The Texas Panhandle is no stranger to face-blasting winds nor roller-coaster dips in temperature.
  — Evan Bush, NBC News, 29 Feb. 2024
• The starring role that cannabis drinks were pegged for has been taken for a roller-coaster ride, prompting us to ask: What do consumers of cannabis beverages truly seek?
  — Joshua Adragna, Rolling Stone, 18 Oct. 2023
• Nelly and Ashanti's relationship has been a roller-coaster ride for decades.
  — Esme Mazzeo, Peoplemag, 12 Feb. 2024
• The country singer’s relatively young career has been a roller-coaster ride, to say the least, from the genuinely inspired to the boneheaded, and, in one case, shameful.
  — Jon Freeman, Rolling Stone, 4 May 2023
• The Little Richard story is a roller-coaster ride of highs and lows, and Cortés’ telling of it finds a keen balance between zigzagging energy and artful context.
  — Robert Abele, Los Angeles Times, 20 Apr. 2023
• The job of crypto VCs has become even more thankless since many of those LPs are not familiar with the roller-coaster cycle of crypto, and are reluctant to hold on till the market turns.
  — Jeff John Roberts, Fortune Crypto, 2 June 2023
• But this has been a season unlike any other in recent Cubs history, a roller-coaster ride that no one could’ve seen coming back in spring training.
  — Paul Sullivan, Chicago Tribune, 16 Aug. 2023
• Some amusement park aficionados are roller-coaster lovers.
  — Amy Schwabe, Journal Sentinel, 1 Sep. 2023

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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 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
• The program has faced a roller coaster of court challenges over the years.
  — Juan A. Lozano, The Christian Science Monitor, 14 Sep. 2023
• 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
• 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
• 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
• The 2022 season has been a roller coaster for the ninth-year veteran.
  — Tyler Dragon, USA TODAY, 7 Dec. 2022
• The entire album just takes you on a roller coaster ride.
  — Gail Mitchell, Billboard, 29 June 2024
• And this week on Face the Nation: The campaign '24 roller coaster enters a new phase.
  — CBS News, 16 June 2024
• Here’s what to know about Boise’s roller coaster weather this week.
  — Shaun Goodwin, Idaho Statesman, 24 June 2024
• Then there’s Davis himself, who seems ready for a roller coaster.
  — Allie Garfinkle, Fortune, 21 Mar. 2024
• There are only two rules with this roller coaster of a card game: steal or score.
  — Cheryl Fenton, Parents, 27 Oct. 2023
• People Make Games founder Chris Bratt is on a roller coaster.
  — Nathan Grayson, Washington Post, 7 June 2022
• April also isn’t afraid of thrill seeking and loves a good roller coaster.
  — Jackie Strause, The Hollywood Reporter, 30 Aug. 2023
• But up to now, the film’s production and release has been a roller coaster for Ball.
  — William Earl, Variety, 6 Dec. 2022
• So our whole project’s been this kind of roller coaster, with the film taking on new lenses.
  — Abbey White, The Hollywood Reporter, 30 May 2022
• The roller coaster train car is supposed to reach the top and then free-fall through several twists, turns, and loops.
  — Michael Dorgan, Fox News, 5 Jan. 2024
• The past few seasons have been a roller coaster for the Medford boys’ lacrosse program.
  — Nate Weitzer, BostonGlobe.com, 26 May 2022
• The screams of riders racing through a loop on the roller coaster at the Jolly Roger Amusement Park.
  — Tim Ebner, Washington Post, 10 July 2024
• On a roller coaster, fringe and funny faces in full effect.
  — Kate Hogan, Peoplemag, 15 Aug. 2022
• Too few are prepared for the roller coaster ride of starting a business and seeing it through.
  — Sammy Rubin, Forbes, 16 Aug. 2024
• Filled with references to the original, the comedy horror is a roller coaster ride of fan service.
  — Troy Aidan Sambajon, The Christian Science Monitor, 5 Sep. 2024

Last Updated: 5 Oct 2024