Sentence examples for carnival from inspiring English sources

They showed a carefree schoolgirl, at her confirmation, in carnival dress, and then in an open casket flanked by candles, laid out in a white dress, clutching flowers.. "People will ask 'why now, so many years later?' said Anan, who was 16 when her aunt was killed.

Then walk back along the beach, like nighttime commandos in daylight, or players from a primeval carnival.

takaotozan.co.jp It sounds like a relative of the Jabberwocky, but the Junkanoo is in fact a vibrant Bahamian festival that takes the form of an all-night carnival.

Ian Finch, senior producer for BBC Sport who looks after the music, said: "This song perfectly captures the feelgood, carnival atmosphere we will bring to our viewers during the World Cup this summer.

Echoing the infamous 1962-3 fairground series taken by the Beatles Hamburgg contemporary and friend Jürgen Vollmer, McCullin's 1965 photographs, which are shown on the magazine spread above, capture the fairground's atmosphere of wild carnival.

To mark the 500th anniversary of the founding of the southern city of Santiago de Cuba on 25 July, a week of partying and a carnival has been planned.

The speech was preceded by a carnival-like atmosphere: hundreds queued happily outside in the heat, while others, without tickets, staked out with cameras the campus roundabout Obama's advance team reportedly wanted removed, for (ultimately unrealised) fears the Cadillac he travels in – the Beast – would fail to negotiate it.

But there were rumbles of discontent behind the carnival-like atmosphere.

"And she's been at every one of them," says Elma, an ex-carnival queen.

Yet that was nothing compared to the carnival-like carnage of the Oakland Raiders' final decade under longtime owner and general manager Al Davis.

On payment of the small admission fee ($3 for adults in Illinois), visitors are treated to an experience that is part-carnival, part-farm show, part-food emporium, part-town meeting.