The Town Council met, and some were for stopping the shows and steam roundabouts as a mark of respect, while others doubted that the masses (among whom the Mayor had not been popular) would resent this curtailing of their fun.
The proprietor of the roundabouts was sent for, and the show-ground granted to him, on condition that he made his steam-organ play hymn tunes.
At another she would have purchased a doll for Angele, but the child shrugged her shoulders and declared that she would greatly prefer to ride on the roundabouts with Martin.
From the roundaboutsthey went to the swings; from the swings to the cocoanut shies.
But they had no patience for that; and so they wrung them out as dry as they could and put them on again; they had left their roundabouts at Dave's house, anyway, and so had nothing on but a shirt and trousers apiece.
The boys took that for a kind of hint, and they pulled off their roundabouts and set to work with him.
The roundabouts churned out their relentless music, and the bottle-shooting galleries popped and crashed.
Farther away to the right were the striped canvas tents of the flower-show, still farther off the roundabouts churned out their music, the shooting galleries popped, and the swing boats creaked through the air.
The roundabouts were restarted, the shows reopened, and all the fun of the fair was soon in full swing once more.
All the shows emptied, the roundabouts stopped, the cocoanut shies were deserted, and everybody, showmen and public alike, came surging round my tent.
The roundabouts were going merrily, the steam organs were at full blast, and I had just begun to gather another crowd round me when I suddenly noticed the central pole of Brown’s booth began to wobble to and fro in a most alarming manner.
For the roundabouts rule the scene; the roundabouts take the money.
They contained Jenkins's roundabouts and shooting-saloons, on their way to rouse the joy of life in other towns.
They had previously formed a block on the site of the sheep-pens; but this year swings and roundabouts were excluded, so as to preserve the area open, and the shows were built round the sides of the quadrangle.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "roundabouts" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
