[
US
/ˈmɛɹiɡoʊˌɹaʊnd/
]
NOUN
- a large, rotating machine with seats for children to ride or amusement
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a never-ending cycle of activities and events (especially when they seem to have little purpose)
if we lose the election the whole legislative merry-go-round will have to start over
How To Use merry-go-round In A Sentence
- The rides varied from the sluggish merry-go-rounds to the fast roller coasters.
- The girls wanted the merry-go-round to go faster.
- However, it's not all bad news on the unification merry-go-round.
- If you have a lasso and rope one of the horses, you would gain speed and the Merry-Go-Round would lose some.
- After riding bareback on the merry-go-round, Colette asked if she could try one colorful game she spotted on the way to the carousel.
- Even here in a holiday resort town we get caught up with the craziness of the daily merry-go-round and become progressively exhausted and burnt out.
- There is a whole category of ersatz adults who've mistaken the apparent staidness of the grownups (who they observe from the outside) for the qualifying characteristic of adulthood and tried to skip the scary merry-go-round. Zornhau: The Middle Ages
- Nottinghamshire pioneered the ‘merry-go-round train system'’ where coal was taken from pit to power station in permanently coupled diesel hauled trains.
- Long term players on the merry-go-round of matrimony, they have come through 20 years of being together to be contenders for the perfect couple.
- This brilliantly colored merry-go-round of a cake is gussied up in minutes.