How to Use roller-coaster in a Sentence

roller-coaster

1 of 2 adjective
  • The picks come on the heels of a roller-coaster week for Wall Street.
    — Samantha Subin, CNBC, 9 Aug. 2024
  • Every one of you knows the journey, the roller-coaster ride, the ups and downs.
    — Carly Thomas, The Hollywood Reporter, 26 Feb. 2023
  • Bitcoin prices have been on a roller-coaster ride over the past few months.
    — Vinamrata Chaturvedi, Quartz, 12 Apr. 2024
  • The car jerked like a roller-coaster cart as my tires, new ones at that, lost contact with the road.
    — Lisa Gutierrez, Kansas City Star, 13 June 2024
  • All of that paled, however, next to the epic Tom-and-Shiv roller-coaster ride.
    — Brian Lowry, CNN, 7 May 2023
  • Some are still smarting from the roller-coaster ride on the stock market early in the month.
    — Diana Olick, CNBC, 7 May 2025
  • The stock has since been on a roller-coaster ride: the shares surged as much as 700% within days of their debut and then plunged to a record-low this week.
    — Nguyen Kieu Giang, Fortune, 20 Oct. 2023
  • That’s the word to best describe the emotional roller-coaster of the Moorpark High baseball team over the last two weeks.
    — Eric Sondheimer, Los Angeles Times, 2 June 2024
  • The roller-coaster in stocks carries some key lessons for investors and consumers alike.
    — Aimee Picchi, CBS News, 9 Aug. 2024
  • The Heat’s roller-coaster season has come to a merciless end.
    — Jared Weiss, New York Times, 29 Apr. 2025
  • Like all of you reading this column, my life has had been somewhat of a roller-coaster ride.
    — Bea L. Hines, Miami Herald, 13 Feb. 2025
  • The Boston Red Sox have been on quite a roller-coaster ride this offseason.
    — Mark Davis, Newsweek, 16 Mar. 2025
  • The ups and downs of presidential approval ratings have the feel of a roller-coaster ride.
    — Michael Gfoeller and David H. Rundell, Newsweek, 15 Jan. 2025
  • Pivetta was solid with the Red Sox, but his 2024 season was quite a roller-coaster ride.
    — Kristan Hawkins, Newsweek, 6 Feb. 2025
  • Her other child, a toddler, was in a seat next to her, and the half-hour of roller-coaster shaking and bucking felt like hours.
    — Christine Chung, New York Times, 28 Mar. 2025
  • Still, this race has been a roller-coaster ride where each candidate has careened from the dumps to the heights, only to crash again.
    — Shawn Tully, Fortune, 29 Oct. 2024
  • The stock market has found some footing over the last week after a roller-coaster start to the year where a swift rise gave way to a sharp tumble.
    — Stan Choe, ajc, 6 Mar. 2023
  • Eaton, who upgraded from bronze three years ago, was asked about the roller-coaster final.
    — David Wharton, Los Angeles Times, 29 July 2024
  • Meanwhile, Taran Noah Smith, who played the youngest brother on the show, had a roller-coaster ride after the series ended.
    — Chris Gardner, The Hollywood Reporter, 22 June 2023
  • It’s been a roller-coaster for KTM, which found itself in financial limbo over the past few months.
    — New Atlas, 25 Feb. 2025
  • The wrangling comes against the background of a roller-coaster week of events and conflicting emotions for Israelis and Gazans.
    — Isabel Kershner, New York Times, 13 June 2024
  • But the familiar sights, sounds, and smells all returned once the gun went off, and the roller-coaster ride plunged down Route 135 toward Ashland.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 12 Apr. 2023
  • The bond, solidified over three roller-coaster years, was more than enough.
    — Daniel Popper, The Athletic, 8 Jan. 2025
  • The Jacksonville Jaguars are having a roller-coaster season.
    — Thomas G. Moukawsher, Newsweek, 1 Dec. 2024
  • April’s roller-coaster ride for stocks is about to be an unprecedented one.
    — Yun Li, CNBC, 29 Apr. 2025
  • Pete Alonso's free agency has been quite the roller-coaster ride.
    — Zach Pressnell, Newsweek, 24 Jan. 2025
  • With its roller-coaster feel, it’s often named as a favorite track among drivers.
    — Brad Spurgeon, Robb Report, 11 Mar. 2024
  • Five teams move up a spot in roller-coaster season, while Mother McAuley enters the rankings.
    — Jeff Vorva, Chicago Tribune, 4 Feb. 2025
  • Those gains belie a roller-coaster ride for investors following a series of scandals hitting the sector and bankruptcies such as the collapse of the FTX exchange in 2022.
    — Bloomberg, Mercury News, 13 May 2025
  • The strategy has sparked an increasingly escalating trade war with China and a roller-coaster ride for stock prices.
    — Anna Kaufman, USA Today, 7 May 2025

roller coaster

2 of 2 noun
  • We went for a ride on the roller coaster.
  • The divorce was an emotional roller coaster for both of them.
  • The three years since have been a roller coaster for the Colts.
    — Matthew Vantryon, The Indianapolis Star, 29 Aug. 2022
  • The past year was a roller coaster of a year for Reprise.
    — Rosie Colosi, NBC News, 19 Apr. 2021
  • The roller coaster ride known as 2024 is nearing the end of the track.
    — Adam Tamburin, Axios, 23 Dec. 2024
  • And for the kids who live for the thrill, there's The Dragon roller coaster.
    — Forrest Brown, CNN, 9 July 2021
  • Over the last 80 years, it's been like a roller coaster.
    — Joe Reedy, Star Tribune, 26 Mar. 2021
  • And it’s just been this roller coaster of ups and downs.
    — Peter Sblendorio, New York Daily News, 17 Jan. 2025
  • But this year, the ice has been on a kind of roller coaster ride.
    — Anchorage Daily News, 4 Apr. 2022
  • It’s been a tough few years for the world’s tallest roller coasters.
    — Brady MacDonald, Oc Register, 29 Mar. 2025
  • The whole year has been an injury roller coaster for the champs.
    — Tim Reynolds, ajc, 8 May 2021
  • The park has 11 roller coasters and is the first amusement park in the Six Flags franchise.
    — Ella Gonzales, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 23 May 2024
  • Some of the drums rattle like loose bolts on a roller coaster.
    — Spencer Kornhaber, The Atlantic, 11 Jan. 2022
  • The need for speed:Kings Island, Cedar Point roller coasters among fastest in the world.
    — Chad Murphy, The Enquirer, 28 Nov. 2024
  • At the time, Cain called the ordeal a roller coaster of emotions.
    — Gabrielle Chung, PEOPLE.com, 21 Apr. 2021
  • And on the flip side, of course, biotech is known for its sort of roller coaster nature.
    — Adam Feuerstein, STAT, 10 Nov. 2021
  • The last two years have been quite the roller coaster for Whitney Port, and the ride is not over just yet.
    — Abigail Adams, PEOPLE.com, 26 June 2021
  • The program has faced a roller coaster of court challenges over the years.
    — Juan A. Lozano, The Christian Science Monitor, 14 Sep. 2023
  • Stock prices shoot up and down like a roller coaster ride, and who knows when the whole thing might crash?
    — The Salt Lake Tribune, 11 Nov. 2021
  • The next two decades were a roller coaster: Smith used, then quit, then used more, then quit again.
    — Lev Facher, STAT, 26 Mar. 2024
  • The theme park plans to open its new Pipeline roller coaster this spring.
    — Dewayne Bevil, Orlando Sentinel, 6 Feb. 2023
  • The plane yawed left and right, dipped and climbed to avoid the flocks, churning my stomach like a roller coaster.
    — Smithsonian Magazine, 10 July 2023
  • And the yen isn’t alone in riding the currency roller coaster.
    — The Editorial Board, WSJ, 4 July 2023
  • This led me to live on a roller coaster without brakes.
    — Stewart Clarke, Deadline, 10 Feb. 2025
  • New year, new chance to get off the emotional roller coaster of the past two years.
    — Harry Guinness, Wired, 4 Jan. 2022
  • But the car's 53-year history has been a bit of a roller coaster.
    — Dan Edmunds, Car and Driver, 16 May 2022
  • Read the full guide here:Cedar Point roller coasters in your future?
    — Katie Wiseman, The Indianapolis Star, 16 May 2024
  • My life is a roller coaster of in and out of confidence.
    — Nancy Tartaglione, Deadline, 8 Jan. 2025
  • The result is a roller coaster of a matchup, likely the wildest and most entertaining of the first round.
    — Eric Stephens, New York Times, 29 Apr. 2025
  • The park will be home to multiple record-breaking roller coasters including Falcon's Flight, the tallest, fastest and longest in the world.
    — Caroline Reid, Forbes.com, 5 May 2025

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