How to Use merry-go-round in a Sentence

merry-go-round

noun
  • There's even a swing and a merry-go-round to keep the fun going all day long.
    — Esther Carlstone, Parents, 3 Aug. 2023
  • Park in the upper lot for the merry-go-round and head toward the trail.
    — Kelcie Pegher, Los Angeles Times, 7 Sep. 2023
  • Come up with the title of a good piece of music for this subzero merry-go-round.
    — The Week Staff, The Week, 21 Apr. 2023
  • Children hop on an actual merry-go-round.
    — Elise Taylor, Vanity Fair, 7 May 2026
  • And the merry-go-round of yelps and vocal chops at its core gleam like Christmas morning.
    — Pitchfork, 5 Dec. 2024
  • The coaching carousel spun at its usual brisk pace, and the quarterback merry-go-round is about to do the same.
    — Joseph Person, The Athletic, 24 Feb. 2025
  • The mall’s merry-go-round was brought in from another location.
    — Jazz Tangcay, Variety, 27 Feb. 2023
  • Now imagine there are a bunch of invisible minions on that merry-go-round with you.
    — Dipangkar Dutta, The Conversation, 15 Dec. 2025
  • To that end, the merry-go-round feel of modern football has subsided a little.
    — Chris Weatherspoon, New York Times, 21 June 2025
  • In the photos, the mother-son pair seemingly enjoyed rides, a merry-go-round and so much more.
    — Kayla Grant, PEOPLE, 20 Oct. 2025
  • Host gifts sometimes feel like a merry-go-round of wine bottles, with the same few staying in rotation.
    — Heather Bien, Southern Living, 28 June 2026
  • But two years later, Ross wants to hop right back on the managerial merry-go-round.
    — Ken Rosenthal, New York Times, 1 Oct. 2025
  • In a sequence of images, Shaun rides the merry-go-round once more with Glassman.
    — Bryan Alexander, USA TODAY, 22 May 2024
  • Grainge rode this merry-go-round of mergers and acquisitions to greater power.
    — John Seabrook, The New Yorker, 29 Jan. 2024
  • Birthday guests, whose parents made reservations in advance, lined up to ride a small merry-go-round.
    — Michael Barnes, Austin American Statesman, 25 July 2025
  • Try to picture a sideways, invisible merry-go-round in your home.
    — Tim Carter, Hartford Courant, 6 Mar. 2026
  • Emma happens upon a glowing merry-go-round, beckoned by the sound of a baby’s voice.
    — Abbey White, The Hollywood Reporter, 17 Oct. 2023
  • The county has since been strongly divided and on a leadership merry-go-round.
    — Choe Sang-Hun, New York Times, 2 May 2025
  • There’s a horse walker, a merry-go-round-like machine to which horses are attached that leads them in a slow circle to warm them up.
    — Elise Taylor, Vanity Fair, 7 May 2026
  • Utah and Washington would have gotten off the tanking merry-go-round this past season.
    — David Aldridge, New York Times, 28 Apr. 2026
  • Add-on accessories like merry-go-rounds, centrifugal funnels, and mills help the marble to pick up speed.
    — Dorian Smith-Garcia, Parents, 22 Oct. 2023
  • In the neighborhood’s public park, all that remained of a children’s merry-go-round that had been set on fire was its iron structure.
    — Constant Méheut, BostonGlobe.com, 1 July 2023
  • The merry-go-round, as Jackson calls it, is inescapable when discussing this Australian project.
    — Beren Cross, The Athletic, 24 Jan. 2025
  • Wales Bonner is just the latest appointment in the merry-go-round of changes among top fashion execs.
    — Nicole Hoey, Robb Report, 21 Oct. 2025
  • For the next fourteen years, Kennedy has said, his life was a merry-go-round of chasing a high and coming down into a deep despair.
    — Clare Malone, The New Yorker, 5 Aug. 2024
  • Other attractions include golf courses, a public pool, pony rides, and a vintage merry-go-round.
    — Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 17 Apr. 2026
  • Human children indulge in spinner bowls at playgrounds and in merry-go-rounds, carousels and carnival rides that spin them through the air.
    — Shayla Love, Scientific American, 28 Mar. 2023
  • The merry-go-round used to actually be in that mall, but it was moved to a horse jumping place called Spruce Meadows.
    — Emily Zemler, Condé Nast Traveler, 13 Mar. 2023
  • Miami Christian got three straight singles to start off the final inning, and the merry-go-round was in motion.
    — Chris Hays, The Orlando Sentinel, 21 May 2025
  • For them – and the countless people who've enjoyed a ride on a merry-go-round – carousels are more than mechanical novelties.
    — Christopher Cann, USA Today, 26 May 2025

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