Many call out to passers-by with the exuberance of carnival barkers.

Like carnival barkers, the networks disclose just enough about the new shows to draw everybody into the tent.

Stock analysts who were once Wall Street's equivalent of rock stars are now seen as carnival barkers.

"We're not going to be able to solve our problems if we get distracted by sideshows and carnival barkers," Obama said.

I'd say you were a carnival barker, except that wouldn't be fair to carnival barkers.

Most do not have the time or skill to invest properly and wind up following the carnival barkers on television or in print.

Hodgins' other television roles were as carnival barkers, medicine-show salesmen, and the like.

The workers manning the additional token tables, many of whom were supervisors pressed into duty, sounded like carnival barkers.

Why should not writers, editors, producers and publishers pretend, like carnival barkers, that fictions are facts?

Not to mention carnival barkers.

There are the sounds of carnival barkers and the chants of gamblers and shills.

Party-fishing boat operators beckon like carnival barkers, urging them to spend $27 for a day at sea, much as they have for generations.

No hype, hoopla or commercialism of the kind often found amid the usual ringmasters, carnival barkers and theme-park characters.

Like carnival barkers, the editors of Nature Genetics in their press release said that patients with the rare condition bore "an uncanny resemblance to a werewolf."

A boardwalk scene has been set up in the parking lot of the Meadowlands Sports Complex, with carnival barkers enticing passersby to test their skills.

Lawyers, therapists and other professionals empty their basements' contents onto stoops and sidewalks, then hawk them with the brashness of carnival barkers.

Camera crews, photographers and reporters with microphones stood like carnival barkers every few feet along the circumference of the 49th floor of the Marriott Marquis.

In his films, he often played hustlers such as carnival barkers and card sharps, spinning yarns and distracting his marks.

Steinbrenner is the modern-day P. T. Barnum, and the New York sports media are his unsalaried carnival barkers.

Once again crowds march along the ancient boardwalk to the thumping cadences of rap music and stroll in the amusement park to the strained voices of carnival barkers.

Never mind that many of these brokerage-firm carnival barkers have been predicting the end of the bear market since the Federal Reserve began its easing action in January.

With almost 100 men running for each of the seven available seats, the candidates resembled carnival barkers in their often outlandish attempts to draw potential voters into their election tents.

Obama said it should put the matter to rest; that the nation had more pressing problems to solve and could not afford to be "distracted by side shows and carnival barkers."

What Reginald Marsh painted, Izzy Halpern appreciated: the surreal demimonde of jazz singers, circus performers, carnival barkers, prostitutes.

In the distance, a chorus of carnival barkers, bleating sheep, and clanging arcade bells harmonizes with the basso profundo of drag-racing at the fairground speedway.