Sentence examples for carnival queen from inspiring English sources

She's a carnival queen: she would dance on floats, something a lot of women in Brazil aspire to.

The carnival begins with the "battle of the flowers" and a float parade led by the carnival queen.

But in truth she became a carnival queen: monarch of a temporary disorder that, when it passed, left the old order intact, or stronger.

Just yesterday we were here to watch the selection of our carnival queen and today, in the same sports centre, we are here collecting bodies".

The carnival queen was wheeled back and forth smiling and waving in the manner you would expect from a country with a history of beauty contest winners.

Only a handful of children in wetsuits braved the sandcastle-building competition, and the Carnival Queen, Cat Greenway, a forty-four-year-old mother of four, shivered through her coronation.

I stand still for a few minutes, the colors of the Carnival queens blurry through my tears.

These carnival queens, from Corby in Northamptonshire, have been selected to promote a positive image of the town – appearing at community events, funfairs, openings and so on.

I'm excited for all of it, from the carnival queens in the opening ceremony to the extinguishing of the Olympic flame on 21 August, no doubt by a beloved Brazilian whom I've never heard of.

So you have images of people who were born with fingers missing alongside other members of the community – like these carnival queens – whose lives have been shaped by the same socio-economic factors.

Although it may look like an innocent photograph of carnival queens at a bowling alley, it is actually part of a project that, as a whole, intends to change government policy on land reclamation.