How to Use magic carpet in a Sentence

magic carpet

noun
  • No chase scenes through Europe or magic carpet rides.
    Caroline Carlson, Literary Hub, 1 Apr. 2026
  • The airboat is the magic carpet of swamp transportation.
    Nathaniel Rich, Harpers Magazine, 20 Aug. 2025
  • The magic carpet duet wasn't exactly magic at first.
    Dave Quinn, PEOPLE, 30 Dec. 2025
  • Guests seamlessly hit the trails with short walks to the tram, two lifts, and a magic carpet, plus free equipment lockers.
    Lydia Price, Travel + Leisure, 17 Nov. 2025
  • There’s a super mellow magic carpet where learners are gaining their stripes.
    Moira McCarthy, Boston Herald, 18 Feb. 2026
  • Cooper says the team received positive feedback, and one individual compared it to riding a magic carpet.
    Joanna Goodrich, IEEE Spectrum, 5 Dec. 2022
  • Roughly an hour later, the magic carpet ride was over, crashing into the turf, traced to a quarterback keeper with six minutes remaining in overtime when he was tackled awkwardly.
    Troy Renck, Denver Post, 18 Jan. 2026
  • The magic carpet lifts and terrain features are for the ski school, but the Greenhorn Ranch Express lift and the Rough Rider trail are open to the public.
    Alison Fox, Outside, 20 Jan. 2026
  • The evergreen road, wet and luminous, was the magic carpet upon which my husband wove our rental SUV between ancient rock faces and around fuzzy mountainsides of virginal pines.
    Kathryn Romeyn, Condé Nast Traveler, 3 Mar. 2025
  • Curt Cignetti’s first season in Bloomington was a magic carpet ride of sorts as an 11-2 campaign (that began 10-0 ) represented the first time in school history the Hoosiers won more than nine games.
    Tom Layberger, Forbes.com, 13 Aug. 2025
  • But as much as Dwyer remains the group’s center of gravity, the album really belongs to bassist Tim Hellman and twin stick-handlers Dan Rincon and Paul Quattrone, whose Tago-via-Lagos grooves serve as the magic carpet that their frontman can ride into the sun.
    Stuart Berman, Pitchfork, 18 June 2026
  • Even when the wacky Halifax weather hurls the wildest of curveballs at the SailGP fleet, somehow Tom Slingsby and the irrepressible Australians ride their magic carpet of consummate skill and a decent dose of luck to lead the standings after the first day of the Canada Sail Grand Prix.
    Andrew Rice, New York Times, 21 June 2026
  • The magic carpet ride of a season that included a Western League co-championship and a playoff run through the Loser’s Bracket that culminated in a CIF San Diego Section Open Division championship came to a crashing end Tuesday for the Patrick Henry High School baseball team.
    John Maffei, San Diego Union-Tribune, 3 June 2026

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