Words similar to carnival
Example sentences for: carnival
How can you use “carnival” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:
Gradually expunging all empathy from her moist, pink eyes and permitting her visage to ossify, she gives this carnival of carnage an awe-inspiring center.
Even when it threatens to disintegrate into nightmare at times of winter floods, Carnival shenanigans, or summer hordes, visitors can take refuge in a café once frequented by Casanova or in a quiet back alleyway away from the congestion, and continue their dream uninterrupted.
Other quizzes “test” the knowledge of the reader's knowledge of gay, black, or carnival slang, of the origins of certain words ( topaz matches up with “Greek for `conjecture' because they could only guess where it came from”), some of tautological clichés (like beck and --), others of nautical jargon, euphemisms, numerical allusions, Yankee dialect, and so forth.
Down the street is the Museo del Carnaval, a museum containing instruments, photos, and artifacts from Santiago’s carnival.
Carnival parades began in 1837, although other aspects of Mardi Gras festivities had taken hold much earlier.