Sentences with 'circus'
Example sentences and phrases with the word circus and other words derived from it.
• « The character in his story was born when Bradbury was 12 years old and a circus visited his village. A giant covered in tattoos sparked his imagination. As soon as he saw him, he was struck by this body where people, landscapes and animals lived side by side. »
• « The famous American circus impresario, Phineas Barnum, left a fortune of $4 million to be divided among several heirs except for his daughter Helen, to whom he left only a property in Denver, which he believed to be worthless. »
• « Although the urban working class could not afford the consumer goods that the middle class could, its members exerted a strong influence on popular culture. Theirs was a festive public culture of liberation and escape from the drudgery of factory work, attended by the likes of Phineas Taylor Barnum, the celebrated circus promoter and showman. »