How To Use Fairground In A Sentence

We drove a mile or so to Shipley Glen, a wooded hillside where a bit of family fairground fun awaited.
As for bridges, fairground rides, aeroplanes and indeed absurdly altitudinous skyscrapers that move perceptibly in the breeze - not fine. Times, Sunday Times
The future King was in fits of laughter as he clung to this white-knuckle fairground ride. The Sun
This year's Christmas lights switch-on promises to be a extravaganza with fairground rides, a street fair and musical entertainment.
Staff have begun moving the remaining animals out of its zoo and mothballing the fairground.

Every second is stuffed with bright, brittle melodies that make you feel as if you've done too many turns on a fairground waltzer.
There is jaunty fairground music playing but one of the rabbits looks a bit mournful. The Sun
Expand factory area and adopt the construction method of and assemble at workshop , reassemble at fairground.
A huge funfair and children's fairground will also be set up in the centre to turn Bradford into a vibrant shopping experience.
The frontage was our Southsea museum, the yards around the back housed our wintering circus troupe, and inside the dining hall the art department had erected a fairground marquee for interior cover. Archive 2007-08-01
The Central New York region boasts a highly eclectic butter sculpture collection at the Fairgrounds.
It's the kind of sensation that people pay money to suffer in fairgrounds.
The first event for the bicentennial will be a free horse show beginning at 8 a.m. on Saturday, Sept. 11, at the Henderson County Fairgrounds. Courierpress.com Stories
A church organist has announced that she plans to marry a magic carpet fairground ride. Times, Sunday Times
The Rat Pack fanbase loves Some Came Running, from the James Jones potboiler, not just for its Sinatra-Dino-MacLaine dream cast, but for its delirious expressionism, especially in the hallucinatory final fairground sequence. Meet Me In St Louis embodies the virtues of a bygone era
We have fairground organs out on the terrace. Times, Sunday Times
Locomotives once used by showmen to haul and power fairground rides; road rollers like Blackberry Jack, which was submerged in brambles before its acquisition for restoration; and more manoeuvrable tractors, including Bo Peep and Hot Favourite, encircled by a procession of their miniature counterparts. Country diary: Stithians, Cornwall
There will also be stalls, sideshows, fairground rides, new and vintage car shows and helicopter and balloon trips, and the Cornish Pavilion will showcase products from the county.
They're gravitating to a large noisy mechanical crudely-lit fairground.
We descended from the castle to keep a promise to our daughter to let her go on a fairground ride near the town harbour.
Gongs and brickbats: some parts of the park are a strange mix of super-high-tech rides and rather tawdry fairground stalls, complete with hustling barkers.
The projected video feed of its crazed, helter-skelter movements delivers the sickening effect of a fairground ride. This week's new exhibitions
The film is a picaresque ramble through a half-real Rome in which gridlocked cars are turned into living spaces; cardinals, monsignors and fawning aristocrats preside over Vatican fashion shows; and the district of Trastevere becomes a huge fairground teeming with local characters, guitar-strumming hippies, uniformed carabinieri. Finding Fellini
The films were ‘come-and-see-yourself’ movies to be viewed in cinematograph booths at fairgrounds.
If I was gagging for a sugar rush and the taste of candyfloss I'd head to the fairground. Sainsbury's launches candyfloss-flavoured grapes
The fair runs August 16-21 at the county fairgrounds in Owatonna.
The biggest events of 2003's inaugural festival, the demolition derby/burn-out contest, will be returning to Sunday afternoon at the fairgrounds.
The opening, where the stage is apparently bare and then transforms into the carousel and fairground, is a magical effect and was, itself, well worth the price of admission.
The owner of a historic fairground ride began to demolish it yesterday after its protection as a listed building was lifted.
Johnson said his plan included enlarging existing shelters, opening a short-term tented shelter area at a fairground, and creating "permanent housing opportunities" for an additional Breaking News - The Post Chronicle
Earlier they had big smiles as they tried out fairground rides. The Sun
The future King was in fits of laughter as he clung to this white-knuckle fairground ride. The Sun
We thread our way through the fairground.
His job was to make up a story, as dramatic as possible, to accompany films (without sub-titles) shown at fairgrounds in the area.
Fairground organ ditties blaring from food stalls soon gave way to the doleful strains of a whiny brass band playing funeral music.
The giant maize maze has been harvested to make way for activities that will include fairground rides, a scary pantomime and a haunted house. Times, Sunday Times
It also featured fairground rides, a petting zoo and food stalls. The Sun
_Tara, tara, tara_! it sang, and right into the middle of the Fairground drove a great tally-ho coach, with pretty young ladies and fine young gentlemen riding on top of it. The Irish Twins
Visit the seafront as the sun sets, for music and fairground rides. Times, Sunday Times
Argueta contrasts these accounts with those dragged into the raid's aftermath - a massive operation where workers were tried ten-at-a-time in makeshift courtrooms at a cattle fairground. Renee Feltz: New Film Tries to Inject Compassion Into Immigration Debate
But it was really the 1920s and 30s that amusement machines really took hold and machines like the one illustrating this article were commonplace in fairgrounds and amusement arcades all over the country.
They made their way towards the south entrance of the fairgrounds.
The Maidstone fairground was a comparatively small affair, a number of sideshows, various stalls, bingo stands, several carousels. CONFESSIONAL
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He used a very old fairground trick of sleight of hand. The Sun
However, we were met with a raucous noise purporting to be music, and fairground stalls.
This year will see the usual attractions of the fairground, dancers and parade.
I have to add up the numbers and decide whether I'm going to fill potholes out on Rt. 36 east of Abilene or commit funds to reroof the sheep barn at the Texas state fairgrounds. Canadian Cynic
Otherwise this year's gathering will remain untouched featuring everything from traditional fairground rides to traction engines, steamrollers and wagons.
In the park there were various fairground rides and the usual stalls and attractions.
This annual Shaw-curated season at the Pizza Express features a typically wide-ranging lineup, from his partnership with Gwyneth Herbert on a tribute to Joni Mitchell and Fran Landesman (Tue), to collaborations with multi-lingual balladeer Tina May (Wed), soul star Linda Lewis (Thu), and Fairground Attraction singer Eddi Reader (Fri). This week's new live music
Until the fairgrounds started to use petrol and diesel engines their rides were driven by steam.
After wandering around the altered room, I felt as if I was in a fairground funhouse where floors and walls are designed to discombobulate.
SACRAMENTO, CA (The Sportsman's Daily Wire Service) -- Ralph Addison's dream of competing in the 12th annual One-Legged Ass-Kicking Contest, held every year at the McLatchy Fairgrounds in Sacramento, California, was dashed this past weekend, when it was learned he possessed not one, but two legs, a clear violation of the event's long-established bylaws. The Sportsman's Daily: Two-Legged Modesto Man Disqualified from One-Legged Ass-Kicking Contest
To mask the harshness of reality from their daughters and keep their spirits up, the parents enroll them in school and take them occasionally to get ice cream and amusement at the local fairgrounds.
There will also be fairground rides and food stalls. Times, Sunday Times
In the park there were various fairground rides and the usual stalls and attractions.
Theatricality rather than reality is the keynote of his production, a point symbolised by the constant background music of Latenas Faustas, which varies from fairground jauntiness to pianistic plangency.
It was where, as a teenager, he saw the fairground showmen set up camp with waltzers, dodgems and swingboats, bringing the promise of a merry-go-round of girls with beehive hairdos and stiletto heels.
Until the end of the nineteenth century the majority of darts thrown in inns and taverns in this country and utilised in fairgrounds were imported from France.
But this is a fairground carousel unlike anything you've seen before. Times, Sunday Times
Like looking down a barrel at the fairground and watching the boy fall behind a row of ducks.
As well as the mini swingboats and waltzers there is a distorting mirror, fairground organ and flats - the huge panels decorated with extravagant swirls at fairgrounds of the past.
He had a rich and varied career, as fairground boxer, circus roustabout, cartoonist, poster designer, trades-union journal editor, television presenter, and towards the end of his life, psychotherapist.
If you get up and scream as if you're a fairground barker, an incredible energy has to come through.
He got the fairgrounds, but other project aspects, such as a bid to build the world's tallest antenna tower, faltered.
They have that rather dazed look of people who have just got off a fairground waltzer: none of them can quite believe they're all back on terra firma.
The gobby singer has been riding the showbiz carousel like the fairground is about to shut down. The Sun
I feel like something flung together at the last minute, something made out of jumble sale cast-offs and things won at fairgrounds.
I liked the fairground rides and I got soaked on the Lost River.
At last the wheel stops and we swing and sway like a pendulum above the seething fairground.
He was hosting a children's circus skills workshop on August 15 when the chrome unicycle, worth several hundred pounds, was stolen from the fairground in Station Park.
That hybrid vigour and insouciant adaptability made it, delightfully, into a fairground mirror of the societies it entertained. Times, Sunday Times
The finish was recreational, fishing lakes, a golf course with good views of Malton, racing stables, and the sound of music and fairground attractions.
The girl band, The Honeyz, opened the Treetop Twister - described as a bit like riding a fairground waltzer on top of a roller coaster - after a 30-minute concert on May 20.
The regulations, he said, would place a duty of care on organisers of funfairs and owners of fairground equipment.
You could also use a fairground, full of laughter and music. Coming Off Tranquillizers and Sleeping Pills
The fairground ride has a primal impact. Times, Sunday Times
Until the end of the nineteenth century the majority of darts thrown in inns and taverns in this country and utilised in fairgrounds were imported from France.
The fairground ride has a primal impact. Times, Sunday Times
The rule applies to sales at the buyer's home, workplace or facilities rented by the seller on a temporary or short-term basis, such as hotel rooms, convention centers, fairgrounds and restaurants.
Other moments evoke a raucous marching band and fairground refrains. Times, Sunday Times
There's a vast market, with traders clad in frock coats, a fairground with hurdy-gurdies and helter-skelters, an artificial ice rink and three outdoor stages full of choirs and bands.
Anyway, whilst all this is going on, an elderly fairground stallholder is crawling under the spinning platform to reach the central control panel with its levers. On Cinema’s Violence « Tales from the Reading Room
Pickleson, fairground giant with whom Doctor Marigold becomes friendly and who draws his attention to the deaf-mute whom Sophy eventually marries.
State security police in black uniforms had replaced the parking assistants that usually patrol the fairgrounds ' two parking areas.
In addition to her fairground business, she sells smuggled liquor to the inns and public houses on her circuit.
The fun of the fairground also came to life at this year's fair, with an impressive exhibition of showman's engines.
Other moments evoke a raucous marching band and fairground refrains. Times, Sunday Times
The instrumentation includes a fairground organ and a zither.
Mr Birch, 29, is the son of a fairground showman and spent his formative years touring fair sites around Yorkshire.
However, it can scarcely have always been so, unless every fairground showman, circus performer, strolling player, cheapjack and Punch and Judy man in history was gay, which seems somewhat unlikely.
And yet this very day, in Brighton, while the health service remains unreformed, and our railways remain the worst in Europe, the Lib Dems have voted to ban the sale of goldfish at fairgrounds.
A working breakfast is served for the sponsoring ag organizations on the State Fairgrounds.
Mr Birch, 29, is the son of a fairground showman and spent his formative years touring fair sites around Yorkshire.
Youngsters tucked into tasty fish and chips and candyfloss at the water's edge while others enjoyed some white-knuckle fun on the fairground rides.
The young man once saved an Aboriginal fairground attendant from the gallows.
Then tens of thousands of Polaris customers and fans joined the fun at the Minnesota State Fairgrounds at Minneapolis for a party that ran all day Saturday and late into a warm starlit night.
The fairground atmosphere in Hamilton Terrace was enhanced by tightly packed stalls offering treats from cuddly toys to candy floss.
His design transports you to the gaudy, decrepit fairground, complete with working helter-skelter and carousel, and shows you the beauty in the ramshackle and ruinous.
This year will see the usual attractions of the fairground, dancers and parade.
But this is a fairground carousel unlike anything you've seen before. Times, Sunday Times
Fairground rides, stalls and games are booked to keep the crowds entertained.
The show takes you back to childhood: the excitement of the fairground carousel, the tantalising mysteries of the circus tent.
The entire fairground, including expanded exhibition areas is fully booked.
Christmas Trio is a two-day bazaar that features 60 vendors at the Walla Walla County Fairgrounds, selling things such as snowmen, Santas, colored lights and ornaments, including some ornaments that double as earrings. Local News from union-bulletin.com
With something for young and old alike, the fair had a large fairground, market trade auto and jumble, an entertainment pavilion and a real ale tent, along with rural craft marquees and a food hall.
Arad's name appeared again outside the fairground, in Vitra's transparent tent erected next to the old city wall.
There will also be fairground rides and food stalls. Times, Sunday Times
There was a small fairground just by the river, with a carousel, a roller coaster and a Ferris wheel.
Designed like a fairground complete with candyfloss machines and ice-cream carts, it is well worth the wait for a reservation if you missed eating at the mother ship. 10 of the best restaurants for new Catalan cuisine
Whitman, so deeply sensuous that his poetry has the emotive compulsion of the fairground mountebank, was famous enough to be used in advertisements.
I'd fight wherever there was a fairground booth near a golf tournament - and that was quite often.
You can feel the heat of this conflagration over one hundred yards away and it burns all night to the sound of local teens puking up over the side of the fairground twister.
Mr Breeze said he hoped to find an alternative site for the fairground in the local area.
After all, a swimming pool and a fairground are the ingredients of every good seaside resort, while those who want good shops go to Manchester.
The accident strengthens the case for better safety measures at fairgrounds.
He added that there would be food and drink stops along the trail and fairground rides in the courtyard:'We have to keep reinventing ourselves. Times, Sunday Times
Other moments evoke a raucous marching band and fairground refrains. Times, Sunday Times
The gobby singer has been riding the showbiz carousel like the fairground is about to shut down. The Sun
There are plenty of attractions including an indoor Christmas market and children's fairground.
Where there were several thousand people the night before, the Sunday saw several dozen kids meandering round the rec looking for dropped change while the fairground folk slowly took their machines to pieces.
What began as a zoo with a fairground attached has evolved into an exciting yet eccentric family-run park.
Besides, the spring fling at the Fairgrounds forgave everyone and everything, rain or shine.
Other family attractions include a fairground, vintage car display, trade stands and helicopter rides.
This was like that, the plane a waltzer they were stuck in, but with no fairground bloke able to swing over and put a stop to it. PROSPECT HILL
The fair's climactic event, the demolition derby, is drawing big crowds to the fairgrounds.
It should have been a happy, bustling picture of fairground rides and an ice rink. Times, Sunday Times
It was far worse than the scariest fairground ride. Times, Sunday Times
The government has imposed strict safety requirements on fairground rides.
Just like the fairground rides that make you sick, this mod had the familiar three rotating rings spinning around a central motherboard - a great effect!
There was a range of fairground amusements, including rides, stalls and competitions.
I'd fight wherever there was a fairground booth near a golf tournament - and that was quite often.
So it is quite possible that your great-great-grandfather could have been a well-paid manager for a fairground family for many years.
With their first performance behind them, they asked to be taken to the fabled Pike, a mile-long stretch of amusements on the northern boundary of the fairgrounds.
It plans to ban these seemingly harmless traditional fairground amusements to appease church groups who claim they are ‘the gateway to adult gambling’.
But since Salman's murder he has been unable to write a word 'Human cannonball' plunges to his death as safety net fails at Kent fairground Take responsibility, Arsene, and admit the Gunners have problems Nick Clegg joins in at last to attack 'dinosaurs who are against AV' London is royal party capital: Wills and Kate thrilled by plans for 2,000 outdoor celebrations Evening Standard - Home
But they might as well have tried to nod off on a fairground ride, such was the helter-skelter day of cricket that was to follow. Times, Sunday Times
You will also catch a glimpse of the Big Wheel in the famous Peter fairground.
It was where, as a teenager, he saw the fairground showmen set up camp with waltzers, dodgems and swingboats.
The fairground cavalcade came through three hours after midnight. THE TARTAN RINGERS
On Dam Square, in front of the Royal Palace, which had been turned into a fairground for the day, even the spruikers were bellowing into their megaphones in a vigorous mixture of Dutch and English.
While modern rollercoasters and large swingboats may excite most of the terror on fairground rides, it is the humble roundabout that causes the most accidents.
The fairground, too, has rides to suit all ages - some scary, some sedate.
Attractions will include a fairground, five-a-side football, food and stalls.
Perforated cards began to replace barrels for fairground organs during the 19th century, and at about that time the player piano, with a punched paper roll, was introduced.
Riverside fairground bosses in York were on full alert today after the Environment Agency issued a yellow flood warning.
Mr Petty is set to create a one-acre fairground on Labworth Recreation Ground which would include around 40 miniature attractions as well as side shows and coconut shies.
The instrumentation (played by musicians from Portishead and Pulp) includes a fairground organ and a zither; Dury's whispered vocal is reminiscent of a small boy asking for a cup of sugar across the garden fence.
Visitors said they enjoyed the event, and although numbers thinned quickly later in the afternoon, crowds turned up to enjoy the stalls, sideshows, fairground rides and the main acts in the arena.
In the park there were various fairground rides and the usual stalls and attractions.
It was where, as a teenager, he saw the fairground showmen set up camp with waltzers, dodgems and swingboats, bringing the promise of a merry-go-round of girls with beehive hairdos and stiletto heels.
He added that there would be food and drink stops along the trail and fairground rides in the courtyard:'We have to keep reinventing ourselves. Times, Sunday Times
To track how the pendulum swung so far that it actually did a fairground loop, it's helpful to recall the archetypal — and in practice, widely emulated — nineties parenting guide Becoming the Parent You Want to Be, by Laura Davis and Janis Keyser. Marshal Plan
The gobby singer has been riding the showbiz carousel like the fairground is about to shut down. The Sun
He pushed the older man around the fairgrounds all day in a rented rattan chair on wheels.
Rayna, who runs the fairground snack bar, blamed the rain at first.
Live costumed characters from the Aquarium will stroll around the fairgrounds, including a whale, a shark, and a sea horse.
Early cinema performances were given in tents by travelling fairground showmen, and were then taken up by music-hall proprietors.
In 1959, two grammar school boys take different paths: one achieves academic success, the other becomes a drifter working in a holiday camp and on fairgrounds, before deciding that his destiny lies in rock 'n' roll.
Staff have begun moving the remaining animals out of its zoo and mothballing the fairground.

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