How to Use three-ring circus in a Sentence

three-ring circus

noun
  • And a bit like a three-ring circus, not knowing which group to focus on.
    — Don Sweeney, sacbee, 8 May 2018
  • Mahomes and his three-ring circus are a bad matchup for a lot of defenses, even good ones.
    — Jonas Shaffer, baltimoresun.com, 1 Oct. 2020
  • Co-owner Bobby Lee described it as a three-ring circus that happens to sell steaks.
    — Chris Quintana, USA TODAY, 14 Apr. 2020
  • The Cal product struggled out of the gate and never quite found his footing in Kyrie Irving’s three-ring circus, failing to build on the impressive growth from his sophomore season.
    — Michael Shapiro, SI.com, 15 Aug. 2019
  • The American three-ring circus came of age at precisely the same historical moment as the U.S. itself.
    — Janet M. Davis, Smithsonian, 22 Mar. 2017
  • Not to mention that Taylor’s productions are like three-ring circuses.
    — David Fear, Rolling Stone, 30 June 2023
  • Every May is a three-ring circus, Carpenter said, and his team is plenty experienced at dealing with the noise and focusing on the mission at hand.
    — Jim Ayello, Indianapolis Star, 7 Mar. 2018
  • Ordinarily, this wouldn’t have anyone in the shebeen looking up from their pints, but the IOP has made a real three-ring circus out of its fellowship program this time around.
    — Charles P. Pierce, Esquire, 14 Sep. 2017
  • And actually getting to eat instead of playing fetch with Matchbox cars or putting on a one-parent three-ring circus to entertain a kid who's thisclose to a meltdown.
    — Kim Fusaro, Woman's Day, 14 Feb. 2012
  • There's no doubt some of Sittenfeld's allies have been disappointed in him for his role in turning City Hall into a three-ring circus, and it's raised questions about his ability to be the city's future top leader.
    — Jason Williams, Cincinnati.com, 29 July 2019
  • Life gets serious enough, after all—as does Facebook, what with the constant political brawling, and let's not even get started on the total three-ring circus Twitter has turned into lately.
    — Jill Gleeson, Country Living, 17 July 2023
  • Sunday presented something of a three-ring circus setting at Augusta.
    — Doug Ferguson, Star Tribune, 4 Apr. 2021
  • The extraordinary success of the giant three-ring circus gave rise to other forms of exportable American giantism, such as amusement parks, department stores, and shopping malls.
    — Janet M. Davis, Smithsonian, 22 Mar. 2017
  • But a general decline in newspaper readership and the recession of the 1990s, followed by a three-ring circus of corporate leadership at The Times, would be the undoing of the paper’s Orange County edition.
    — Los Angeles Times, 26 Apr. 2022
  • As of right now, Zipolite is less accessible than other popular Mexican beach destinations — than, say, the three-ring circus that has subsumed Cancún.
    — Jenna Wortham, New York Times, 22 Mar. 2023
  • The Super Bowl is like photographing a football game in the middle of a three-ring circus.
    — Emily Jan, San Francisco Chronicle, 11 Feb. 2026
  • So much is packed in that The Slip feels more like a three-ring circus than a 12-round match.
    — Book Marks june 5, Literary Hub, 5 June 2025
  • The other is an unranked unicorn, most at home in the middle ring of a three-ring circus.
    — Matthew Futterman, The Athletic, 14 Jan. 2025

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