Sentence examples for At fairground from inspiring English sources

Once sated, the itinerant gaijin (foreign) gourmet can try his luck at fairground shooting ranges or lose her shirt at mah jong.

In YMBBT, the audience, known as "passengers", pass through elaborately designed role-playing scenes, following one after the other at fairground ride speed.

He and his brother Marvin rode horses in match races at fairground meetings and, Hine remembered: "My father trained horses, but he had to make a living doing other things.

"I am not amazed that people kept remarkable samples of Buchinger's calligraphy and microscopy, " Mr. Jay said — neither was I — "but I am surprised that small, undistinguished announcements of his appearances at fairground booths and rooms in public houses also survived".

It was nothing new, however: they had fought one another at fairground boxing booths in their youth, a scene recreated in the 1990 film The Krays – albeit with the rather older Kemp brothers playing the twins.

The atmosphere was that of a day out at a down-at-heel fairground.

"It's a play on the cheesy names that rides have at fairgrounds", he says.

It didn't look like the coconuts you win at fairgrounds.

And in Haddam Neck, the tractor pulls, skillet throws and other competitions are planned throughout the weekend at fairgrounds at 26 Quarry Hill Road.

At the same time, more casual races started taking place across America, at fairgrounds and horse tracks and on empty farmland.

"Lots of people's first experience of lightbulbs and waterwheels was at fairgrounds; it's the perfect place for people to come and experiment with new technology.