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.

  • The surf carnival [1914] was initially as much a public-relations exercise as a competitive occasion, the iron man [19?

  • Britain's Sunday Telegraph reported that the town was crowded with back-to-school shoppers and people attending a carnival and parade.

  • At the Carnival of 1494, he shamed the Florentines into throwing their “vanities” — not only clothes, jewelry, and cosmetics, but books and paintings, with Botticelli contributing some of his own — onto a giant fire on the Piazza della Signoria.

  • Staged in February (and occasionally March), Carnival is celebrated through the streets of Funchal with Brazilian-style samba rhythms — but don’t expect the hedonism or sensuality of the type of celebrations in Rio or Tenerife, Spain.


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