How to Use freak show in a Sentence

freak show

noun
  • This many people want to see a freak show.
    — David Remnick, New Yorker, 22 May 2026
  • Well, now even a hater like me has a reason to watch the coming freak show.
    — Frederick Dreier, Outside, 4 Mar. 2026
  • What all of these dogs share—besides their Great Dane roots—is that they’re never framed as freak shows.
    — Lucy Notarantonio, MSNBC Newsweek, 6 Dec. 2025
  • All sporting events are, fundamentally, freak shows.
    — Ellen Cushing, The Atlantic, 25 May 2026
  • His work can sometimes seem like a bit of an architectural freak show, worthy of an HGTV series more than a museum exhibition.
    — Edward Keegan, Chicago Tribune, 11 Jan. 2026
  • While many talk shows began as fitfully amusing discussions around relevant issues, some soon devolved into sordid and exploitative freak shows that encouraged verbal and physical altercations.
    — Randall Colburn, Entertainment Weekly, 29 Jan. 2026
  • But when a grubby circus impresario, Fulbert Freakfinder, arrives offering Stitch Head a starring role in his freak show, our hero is tempted by the promise of love and acceptance.
    — Scott Roxborough, HollywoodReporter, 29 Oct. 2025
  • Occurring more than halfway through the performance, the scene is used to introduce the tragic backstory of the Phantom character at a freak show — a new narrative deviating from the original source material.
    — Devon Ivie, Vulture, 10 Oct. 2025
  • Only the freak show that is Bill Belichick’s 24-year-old girlfriend, the third-place finisher in the Miss Maine pageant Jordon Hudson, could turn more heads than UNC alum Michael Jordan, who also appeared at his alma mater on Monday.
    — Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 2 Sep. 2025

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