Circus [noun]

Almost literally a sideshow, as in a circus, where the center ring is occupied by the main event and the rings off to the side are populated by the lesser acts.

By 2017, the effort to create an experimental underwater vortex circus had paid off with proof of what happens to helicity in the real world.

That might not happen if they were being bred like circus animals just to make money.

There were five men and three women in the circus troupe, and among the four nuns was the grave reverend mother of a convent.

The comical little pig and the merry monkey hid under the bush and ate acorns as they watched the circus procession go past.

She wouldn't hear tell o' my working half the day, though I could well's not, 'cause the circus don't take in till two o'clock.

Home it is where we'll eat that nice lunch o' Mrs. Calvert's, 'cause I haven't got a cent left to buy them circus tickets.

His white tail curves beautifully like the plumes on the hats of the circus ladies.

Erat autem is splendissimo candore inter flammas circus elucens, quem vos, ut a Graiis accepistis, orbem lacteum nuncupatis.'

Grandmother Penny and Mr. Spackles went to the circus in a more or less surreptitious manner.