How to Use fairground in a Sentence

fairground

noun
  • Away from the rides and games of a busy fairground is another world.
    — The New Yorker, New Yorker, 4 Sep. 2025
  • There is a bus stop outside the media gate at the fairgrounds for guests.
    — Craig Shoup, Nashville Tennessean, 4 Sep. 2025
  • Those who couldn’t afford a room slept in their cars or camped in the fields around the fairgrounds.
    — Gregory S. Schneider, Washington Post, 21 July 2017
  • Both fairground and field have been baking all day in the late-summer sun.
    — Misha Hoekstra, Harpers Magazine, 5 Jan. 2021
  • But the fairgrounds had wilted under the weight of so many feet and hooves.
    — Sophie Hartley, USA Today, 21 Feb. 2026
  • Much of the fairgrounds land is below the flood plain and could have soil problems.
    — Phil Diehl, San Diego Union-Tribune, 12 Mar. 2025
  • High at a fairground, her skin tingles when the wind lifts someone’s hair.
    — Amber Medland, The New Yorker, 19 Jan. 2022
  • The fairgrounds are at 88 Fair Drive.
    — Heather McRea, Oc Register, 6 Nov. 2025
  • Horse trailers and trucks and campers filled the grassy area at the western edge of the fairgrounds.
    — Denise Coffey, Courant Community, 5 Sep. 2017
  • The fair will last more than three weeks, to spread out crowds and allow for fairground cleaning.
    — David Pitt, Anchorage Daily News, 17 Aug. 2021
  • Maybe, as a child, your parents took you to a fairground, and bought you vanilla ice cream.
    — Kristen Lynch, USA TODAY, 1 Aug. 2023
  • It was performed pageant-style, outdoors, in the fairgrounds.
    — Jennifer Percy, Harper's magazine, 20 Jan. 2020
  • Coupons are $1 and cover most of the food and rides inside the fairgrounds.
    — Tommy Cummings, Dallas News, 30 Aug. 2023
  • No events are occurring at the fairgrounds through the end of June.
    — Domenica Bongiovanni, Indianapolis Star, 28 May 2020
  • Dinosaurs and dragons will roam the fairgrounds.
    — Don Sweeney, Sacbee.com, 14 June 2026
  • The campground at the fairground is in the woods, which acts as a buffer to the blazing sun.
    — Scott McMurren, Anchorage Daily News, 11 Mar. 2023
  • Unlike most county fairs in the state, the Broward fair doesn’t have its own fairgrounds.
    — Larry Barszewski, Sun-Sentinel.com, 22 Sep. 2017
  • But officials at the fairgrounds, who have the final say, still haven’t agreed to that plan.
    — Luke Harold, San Diego Union-Tribune, 15 Mar. 2026
  • Much of the community center and fairgrounds were built on the site of the tank farm.
    — Peter Marteka, Courant Community, 12 Mar. 2018
  • Hours ahead of the event people started gathering at the fairgrounds for the event.
    — USA TODAY, 29 Jan. 2024
  • Pets were allowed at the school, and livestock could be taken to the county fairgrounds.
    — Bay Area News Group, The Mercury News, 18 June 2024
  • The skies were purple with storm clouds, and a silvery rain slanted off and on, dousing the fairgrounds.
    — Longreads, 13 July 2017
  • Riders would get on and off at either the front gate or near the carnival area on the north side of the fairgrounds.
    — Sven Berg, idahostatesman, 31 Jan. 2018
  • Scream your hearts out at this annual event at the Santa Clara fairgrounds.
    — Hema Sivanandam, Mercury News, 20 Oct. 2025
  • There is a fairground carousel in the parklands of Villa Borghese.
    — Stanley Stewart, Condé Nast Traveler, 22 Mar. 2021
  • There were dozens on the fairgrounds before the Great Depression.
    — Time, 11 July 2019
  • The new contract is expected to come with a number of guardrails and the city would own improvements made at the fairgrounds.
    — Aria Jones, Dallas Morning News, 25 Feb. 2026
  • In the days before disposable cups, the ice cream cone took the frozen treat from the dessert table to the fairground, boardwalk or the park.
    — Kat Eschner, Smithsonian, 22 Sep. 2017
  • Police searched the fairgrounds for other explosive devices and asked workers to leave the area.
    — FOXNews.com, 1 Oct. 2025
  • Big Tex greets you from his perch above the fairgrounds, smiling down on acres of exhibits, food stalls, and carnival rides.
    — Allen Buchanan, Oc Register, 25 Oct. 2025

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