What's the difference between rollercoaster and saga?

Rollercoaster


Definition:

Example Sentences:

  • (1) It’s unthinkable that they wouldn’t do that.” The Saw ride at Thorpe Park in Surrey and the Dragon’s Fury and Rattlesnake rollercoasters at Chessington World of Adventures, also in Surrey, have also been shut down by Merlin Entertainments, which owns all three parks.
  • (2) A student who lost her leg in the Alton Towers rollercoaster crash says she has been given a new lease of life by a hi-tech prosthetic leg and that she is stronger for her harrowing experience.
  • (3) When I was younger I was up and down like a rollercoaster.
  • (4) Now that the rollercoaster has dipped many are surveying the scene, and the strongest candidates are a former regime man (Amr Moussa, also ex-head of that club of dictators otherwise known as the Arab League), and a former Muslim Brotherhood man (Abdel-Moneim Aboul-Fotouh , who was kicked out of the movement back in the day when it still maintained that it wouldn't contest the presidency).
  • (5) HSBC’s shares have been on a rollercoaster ride since Gulliver and departing chairman Douglas Flint took charge six years ago, and are little changed from where they started out.
  • (6) (“Get your tissues ready: It’s time for an emotional rollercoaster.”) His mum, Figen, he wrote on his feed , had told him she was having a bad day because she had taken a stall at a craft fair and no one had bought any of her knitted creations.
  • (7) Steel was left with what she called a “complete rollercoaster of emotions” not knowing whether he was alive or dead.
  • (8) Harman said this morning that Ed Miliband's victory, and the decision by his defeated brother, David, to step down from frontline politics, had resulted in a "real rollercoaster" of an event.
  • (9) Some fear-stoking simply goes too far: we don't mind being scared (we actually enjoy the experience of a rollercoaster ride) but child abduction, no thanks.
  • (10) A 20-year-old woman who suffered serious injuries in a rollercoaster crash at Alton Tower has had her leg amputated.
  • (11) My life has been a bit of a rollercoaster, to say the least, over the last couple of years.
  • (12) Alton Towers is to open what it claims is the world’s first rollercoaster that combines a physical ride with virtual reality, giving passengers a “customised journey into space” via headsets that use groundbreaking technology.
  • (13) In 12 to 18 months’ time I believe Alton Towers will be back to where it was.” He offered no update on the future of the Smiler rollercoaster.
  • (14) Alton Towers to open 'groundbreaking' virtual reality rollercoaster Read more The Staffordshire theme park was beginning its first season since 16 people were injured in the Smiler accident , with its owner hoping to make a fresh start in spite of opposition from some of the victims.
  • (15) "We cannot permanently ride a rollercoaster on Greece; we have to know where things are going, and the Greeks have to tell us where they would like things to go," he told German ZDF television.
  • (16) "With the dramatic undersupply of homes making finding a stable place to live increasingly unaffordable, we need to see the government put the brakes on our rollercoaster housing market and commit to building the affordable homes that we desperately need."
  • (17) That’s not because the numbers might be disappointing (and they probably will be) but because the company is the owner of Alton Towers, the theme park where last month’s horrific rollercoaster accident left four people seriously injured.
  • (18) In this rollercoaster political world, photographs of the happy occasion were released by North Korean state media on the same day that London Olympic organisers were forced to explain how they allowed the South Korean flag to be pictured on big screens at Glasgow's Hampden Park ahead of the North Korean women's football match against Colombia.
  • (19) As analysts predicted a weakened Reuters potentially falling prey to a rival, Grigson and Glocer survived several rollercoaster years of plunging stock prices.
  • (20) It’s like having your own private rollercoaster.” Tesla customers weren’t asking to go faster, he added, but the company wanted to see if they could do it.

Saga


Definition:

  • (n.) A Scandinavian legend, or heroic or mythic tradition, among the Norsemen and kindred people; a northern European popular historical or religious tale of olden time.
  • (pl. ) of Sagum

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Director Gareth Edwards , who made Godzilla, introduced a tantalizing concept reel to preview the mysterious film, which is part of a series of films exploring other stories outside of the core Star Wars saga.
  • (2) The Boaty McBoatface saga is not the first time online polls have gone awry.
  • (3) In a four-week campaign, noticeable for its lacklustre feel in the wake of the draining bailout saga, almost every poll depicted a neck-and-neck race between the two main parties.
  • (4) There was no immediate response from the Sterlings to the latest twist in the saga but an unnamed ally told the LA Times the claims were a “smear”.
  • (5) US attorney general Loretta Lynch closed the investigation into Hillary Clinton’s private email practices with no charges on Wednesday, formally ending a protracted saga that has clouded her campaign with questions of trustworthiness.
  • (6) A possible battle in the high court could ensue and potentially another saga that is likely to do no good whatsoever for the club, who this season are rebuilding on the road to a potential first return to the Premier League since 2004.
  • (7) So the second about-turn means Delph may have has questions to answer regarding his thought process throughout an saga that has become untidy.
  • (8) The following year he played a philosophising, brutal hitman in the film True Romance, written by Quentin Tarantino , which paved the way for his lead role in The Sopranos, the gangster family saga that ran for six seasons from 1999.
  • (9) A federal judge announced the proposed deal on Thursday, which would bring to a close the long-running legal saga over safety in the sport brought by players suffering from the long-term effects of head traumas, including advanced dementia.
  • (10) The US has had a hard time so far trying to make charges, other than against Manning, stick in the WikiLeaks saga.
  • (11) Serum IgA-antigliadin antibodies (SAGA) were measured by ELISA in 46 children with proven celiac disease (CD), in 52 children with probable CD, and in 85 control subjects.
  • (12) Yet again we see an appalling saga of interest rate fixing ranging across the whole industry, but the government still refuses to take a backstop power for full separation of all the banks in case ring-fencing doesn’t work.
  • (13) In The Bridge, my character, Saga Norén, lives in an apartment building close to here.
  • (14) The arcane wiring when electricity came along, the subsequent clumsy rewiring; the cheap flat conversion in the 1960s; the constant saga of patch and mend from occupants who never have the money or vision to remake the whole thing from scratch - all this, and more, was paralleled on the WCML on an enormous scale.
  • (15) Some will claim the long-running Hamza saga shows the extent to which human rights have got so out of hand and that they need to be "rebalanced", that is, cut.
  • (16) The public saga of their marriage and divorce is the story of his vulnerability and ego, and his determination to be president at any cost.
  • (17) A statistical study was carried out to evaluate the dental caries of permanent teeth in the elementary school children (208 boys and 165 girls, 373 children of total) in the town of Fuji, Saga Prefectur, which is a mountain village, by means of psychological test and investigation of the living environment of children and their parents.
  • (18) The hunger strike by our former fellow prisoners at the Guantánamo prison camp should have already been the spur for President Obama to end this shameful saga, which has so lowered US prestige in the world.
  • (19) The War Against Terror is another moment in this continuing saga of our species toward an unpredictable somewhere between All against All and One World,” writes Scott Atran, attempting to place terrorism in the context of the evolution of human identities: While economic globalisation has steamrolled or left aside large chunks of humankind, political globalisation actively engages people of all societies and walks of life – even the global economy’s driftwood: refugees, migrants, marginals, and those most frustrated in their aspirations.
  • (20) Speaking at the annual CinemaCon convention in Las Vegas, Horn confirmed the latest triptych of movies in the long-running space saga would kick off in 2015 with Star Wars: Episode VII.