How to Use roller-coaster in a Sentence

roller-coaster

1 of 2 adjective
Definition of roller-coasternext
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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 Jacksonville Jaguars are having a roller-coaster season.
    — Thomas G. Moukawsher, Newsweek, 1 Dec. 2024
  • With its roller-coaster feel, it’s often named as a favorite track among drivers.
    — Brad Spurgeon, Robb Report, 11 Mar. 2024
  • Saturday night was a wild roller-coaster ride for the Cincinnati Bengals.
    — Ryan Morik, Fox News, 29 Dec. 2024
  • The crackdown is the latest dizzying swerve in the country’s roller-coaster politics.
    — Christina Goldbaum, New York Times, 8 Feb. 2024
  • Could Aston Martin’s roller-coaster fortunes be set for the biggest climb yet?
    — Mike Duff, Car and Driver, 26 June 2023
  • The result has been a roller-coaster ride for animation.
    — Tracy Brown, Los Angeles Times, 13 June 2023
  • And Black men in hip-hop exist in an endless loop of roller-coaster success, hazy self-worth, bullets, fame and its cousin, paranoia.
    — Danyel Smith, New York Times, 8 Aug. 2023
  • For most fans, this show isn’t so much about watching her career flash before their eyes — although there’s that — but their own roller-coaster lives.
    — Chris Willman, Variety, 12 Oct. 2023
  • But the relationship itself should not send you on a daily roller-coaster ride.
    — Amy Dickinson, Detroit Free Press, 2 Jan. 2024
  • The roller-coaster ride hasn’t stopped, but Segarra’s learned to appreciate that their grief, too, is an expression of love.
    — Jeff Gage, Rolling Stone, 1 Mar. 2024
  • For number theorists, 2012 was like a roller-coaster ride.
    — Manon Bischoff, Scientific American, 28 July 2023
  • And now viewers are about to get treated to another roller-coaster ride of romance less than two months later.
    — Ree Hines, Forbes, 22 Mar. 2023
  • The Miami Dolphins roller-coaster season is set to face its next big issues.
    — David Faris, Newsweek, 28 Dec. 2024
  • The move marked the latest twist in a roller-coaster legal saga this year that began on April 18, a day before the three-year anniversary of Gonzalez’s death.
    — Jakob Rodgers, The Mercury News, 20 Dec. 2024
  • Around a dozen passengers were trapped on a roller-coaster on Wednesday at Hong Kong Disneyland.
    — Patrick Frater, Variety, 7 Feb. 2024
  • Advertisement The Rebels have been through many twists during a roller-coaster season.
    — Anthony De Leon, Los Angeles Times, 8 Dec. 2024
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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
  • But this year, the ice has been on a kind of roller coaster ride.
    — Anchorage Daily News, 4 Apr. 2022
  • 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
  • And on the flip side, of course, biotech is known for its sort of roller coaster nature.
    — Adam Feuerstein, STAT, 10 Nov. 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
  • 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
  • The past few years have been a roller coaster ride for legal cannabis in the United States.
    — Igor Dunaevsky, Rolling Stone, 8 June 2022
  • New ride: Cedar Point will debut a new roller coaster, Wild Mouse, at the park in 2023.
    — Mike Rose, cleveland, 12 Aug. 2022
  • Since then, it’s been a roller coaster of on-again, off-again sightings.
    — Jenzia Burgos, StyleCaster, 17 Aug. 2024
  • And this year, the roller coaster climb and fall has defined both Clarkson and Utah.
    — The Salt Lake Tribune, 18 Apr. 2022
  • Ride time for the 1.4-mile track on the roller coaster is four minutes, 10 seconds.
    — Emily Deletter, The Enquirer, 14 Apr. 2022
  • Some parts of the fair are geared for kids, others for a mixed crowd, like the pirate ship and roller coasters.
    — Tribune Content Agency, The Mercury News, 7 Oct. 2024
  • What a roller coaster of a scene, for both the audience and for Shiv and Roman.
    — Alan Sepinwall, Rolling Stone, 13 Dec. 2021
  • The 2022 season has been a roller coaster for the ninth-year veteran.
    — Tyler Dragon, USA TODAY, 7 Dec. 2022
  • It’s a roller coaster, but one where the fear factor is left strictly to the title.
    — Chris Willman, Variety, 8 Apr. 2022
  • The entire album just takes you on a roller coaster ride.
    — Gail Mitchell, Billboard, 29 June 2024
  • And this week on Face the Nation: The campaign '24 roller coaster enters a new phase.
    — CBS News, 16 June 2024
  • This causes a roller coaster ride with blood pressure and breathing rate.
    — Sam Joseph, CNN, 21 Nov. 2024
  • The event also includes access to the boardwalk’s restaurants, bars, and shops, along with Jolly Roger at the Pier amusement park, home to a Ferris wheel, double-decker carousel, roller coaster, and more.
    — Jessica Lynch, Billboard, 12 Dec. 2024

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