Ringling

[ ring-ling ]

/ ˈrɪŋ lɪŋ /

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noun

Albert (1852–1916), and his brothers Alfred (1861–1919), Charles (1863–1926), John (1866–1936), and Otto (1858–1911), U.S. circus owners.

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How to use Ringling in a sentence

All these factors led the Ringling brothers—following the 1918 season—to make a momentous decision.
The Circus Was Once America’s Top Entertainment. Here’s Why Its Golden Age Began to Fade|Les Standiford|June 15, 2021|Time
The Ringling show’s 250 canvasmen were reduced to 80, while the property men dropped from 80 to 20, most of them aging 4-F’s instead of the burly personnel who had swelled the ranks before the war.
The Circus Was Once America’s Top Entertainment. Here’s Why Its Golden Age Began to Fade|Les Standiford|June 15, 2021|Time
At the time that the United States entered WW I in 1917, the Ringling show employed about a thousand people and traveled about the country on 92 railroad cars, with the Barnum & Bailey show about the same size.
The Circus Was Once America’s Top Entertainment. Here’s Why Its Golden Age Began to Fade|Les Standiford|June 15, 2021|Time
If Ringling saw the move as anything other than a precursor to an even more grand and glorious future, he was not admitting it.
The Circus Was Once America’s Top Entertainment. Here’s Why Its Golden Age Began to Fade|Les Standiford|June 15, 2021|Time

Ringling, however, has maintained that its trainers lovingly looked after the elephants.
Former circus elephants just arrived at a new sanctuary. They are swimming and grazing on fruit buffets.|Cathy Free|May 13, 2021|Washington Post
She left The Ringling Bros. to join Big Apple as chief trainer over five years ago.
How the Circus Got a Social Conscience|Justin Jones|November 7, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Acrobat death In 2004, Dessi Espana, a performer with Ringling Bros. and Barnum Bailey, fell 35 feet during a performance.
Thrills and Too Many Spills: The Dangers of the Circus|Marina Watts|May 5, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Connecticut Fire Arguably the worst circus tragedy in history was the Ringling Brothers Circus fire on July 6, 1944.
Thrills and Too Many Spills: The Dangers of the Circus|Marina Watts|May 5, 2014|DAILY BEAST
It took Ringling 10 years to pay off more than 600 claims that were a result from the fire.
Thrills and Too Many Spills: The Dangers of the Circus|Marina Watts|May 5, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Kirsch has just completed his three-minute audition for Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey's Clown College.
The Most Depressing Show on Earth: Amongst the Clowns of Newark|Lizzie Crocker|March 16, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Hear him tell it, he set Barnum up in business and loaned the Ringling boys their first money.
David Lannarck, Midget|George S. Harney
Here the funeral of a brother, Otto Ringling, was held in 1911.
Baraboo, Dells, and Devil's Lake Region|H. E. Cole
In 1889 I went with the Ringling circus, and I have been with it ever since.
The Autobiography of a Clown|Isaac Frederick Marcosson
Ringling residence stood the first church in the Baraboo valley.
Baraboo, Dells, and Devil's Lake Region|H. E. Cole
Mr. Ringling died soon after, January 1, 1916, in the large mansion around the corner to the right.
Baraboo, Dells, and Devil's Lake Region|H. E. Cole