Example sentences for: carnival

How can you use “carnival” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Carnival parades began in 1837, although other aspects of Mardi Gras festivities had taken hold much earlier.

  • 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.

  • Both these contrasting traditions, Zen austerity and floating-world carnival, brought about a greater individualism in Japanese art.

  • Jesse Ventura argues that the former "sideshow freak" of the "political carnival" has become the ringmaster.

  • You can give your fancy-dress balls back home a touch of Venetian class with the finely crafted papier-mâché masks produced by countless workshops for Venice’s wintertime Carnival.


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