How to Use thrill ride in a Sentence
thrill ride
noun-
The kiosk is on the left as Tron ride passengers approach the ramp to the thrill ride.
— Dewayne Bevil, Orlando Sentinel, 29 Mar. 2023 -
Is the food the same brain-jangling thrill ride as the original?
— Bill Addison, Los Angeles Times, 18 Jan. 2024 -
Yet Kia's thrill ride is good enough to earn a silver medal.
— Tony Quiroga, Car and Driver, 28 June 2023 -
Fun for all ages, this thrill ride reaches up to 27 mph at the control of the rider.
— Zoe Denenberg, Southern Living, 30 June 2023 -
Adrenaline junkies can hop on King XXL, a new thrill ride that’s the only one of its kind on the west coast.
— Camila Pedrosa, Sacramento Bee, 11 July 2024 -
Splash Mountain, the log flume thrill ride themed around the dated and racist 1946 film, will close next month for a remodel.
— Vanessa Franko, Los Angeles Times, 13 Apr. 2023 -
But the most exciting addition for many will be the new thrill ride: Harry Potter and the Battle of the Ministry.
— Athena Sobhan, Peoplemag, 31 July 2024 -
And this year, with its Pleasure Park theme, ticket-holders are in for a thrill ride in a Broadway fantasy land.
— Keith Caulfield, Billboard, 4 May 2023 -
Different images point to a more promising path: A woman in the twilight of life, finally free to take a thrill ride that was denied her in youth.
— Bishop Sand, Washington Post, 6 Dec. 2023 -
The thrill ride, with white lattice supports for a distinctive one blue rail/one red rail design, opens to the public at Fun Spot Atlanta on Friday.
— Dewayne Bevil, Orlando Sentinel, 30 Mar. 2023 -
This time around, the teams came close to delivering that kind of thrill ride, with another finish that neither side will soon forget.
— Scott Miller, New York Times, 23 Mar. 2023 -
For Guiney, Poor Things has been a decade-long thrill ride on Lanthimos’ fantastical roller coaster.
— Zoe G Phillips, The Hollywood Reporter, 26 Feb. 2024 -
And while the plot of this movie is a little all over the place and weird, the set pieces—particularly one that takes place both inside and on Dubai's Burj Khalifa—make this a joyful thrill ride of a movie.
— Evan Romano, Men's Health, 11 July 2023 -
Set in rural Ireland, this ghoulish haunted house horror is a dread-inducing thrill ride from start to finish.
— Zac Ntim, Deadline, 10 July 2024 -
When SeaWorld unveils its next big attraction, don’t expect yet another thrill ride with hair-raising twists and turns.
— Lori Weisberg, San Diego Union-Tribune, 28 Sep. 2023 -
For example, adrenaline-seekers can line up for a thrill ride on the Flying Dutchman water coaster.
— Elizabeth Rhodes, Travel + Leisure, 8 June 2023 -
Featuring one of the most chilling endings of all time, Invasion of the Body Snatchers remains a tense thrill ride and a powerful commentary on paranoia.
— Janey Tracey and Kevin Jacobsen, EW.com, 5 Aug. 2023 -
Thirty years later, Sly summits the mountain yet again for another high-altitude thrill ride.
— Rebecca Rubin, Variety, 16 May 2023 -
Also, Dollywood's newest roller coaster Big Bear Mountain — a two-minute, 3,990-foot thrill ride — will return for its second season.
— Rachel Chang, Travel + Leisure, 7 Mar. 2024 -
Expedition Everest is a thrill ride that involves train cars going up steep inclines and drops, and has segments where the ride vehicle goes backwards or is in complete darkness.
— Esme Mazzeo, Peoplemag, 15 Dec. 2023 -
If Splash Mountain had the illusion of peril and danger — a rabbit being hunted by a fox and a bear — Tiana’s argues that a thrill ride, one complete with a 50-foot, soak-inducing drop, can be a jovial, celebratory affair.
— Todd Martens, Los Angeles Times, 11 June 2024 -
Even if some of this once again will fly over the heads of the youngest audience members, the thrill ride of Joy & Co. facing endless setbacks while trying to stop out-of-control Anxiety is amply compelling even without the psychological framework.
— David Rooney, The Hollywood Reporter, 12 June 2024 -
Although the series was unceremoniously canceled after leaving ABC for Netflix, that shouldn't deter you from going on this thrill ride.
— Keith Nelson, Men's Health, 20 July 2023 -
Set in Havana, this action-horror-comedy hybrid turns the parody up several notches and morphs its zombie apocalypse into a Cuban thrill ride that is entirely its own.
— Deanna Janes, Harper's BAZAAR, 4 Aug. 2023 -
What follows is a series of melodramatic twists and complicated characters with nefarious agendas that results in a wild thrill ride.
— Alamin Yohannes, EW.com, 15 Mar. 2023 -
Starring original cast members Peter Friedman and Sydney Lemmon, the 80-minute thrill ride follows an employee of a major tech company who seeks out a crisis therapist after being placed on leave following her involvement in a viral video.
— Kristen Tauer, WWD, 1 Aug. 2024
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