How to Use distributor in a Sentence

distributor

noun

• The ads are part of A-B’s overall make-good campaign with distributors.
  — Jordan Valinsky, CNN, 28 June 2023
• The movie has sold worldwide but is still looking for a U.S. distributor.
  — Boris Sollazzo, The Hollywood Reporter, 21 Nov. 2023
• The raw ground beef was shipped to distributors in Georgia, Michigan, and Ohio in 10-pound plastic tubes.
  — Abigail Wilt, Southern Living, 20 Sep. 2023
• This led to the film release by distributor Abramorama.
  — Carolyn Giardina, The Hollywood Reporter, 30 Nov. 2023
• The power of two chain buyers to make or break a writer’s career has been replaced by the power of one distributor to do so.
  — Cory Doctorow, WIRED, 7 Sep. 2023
• Under the status quo, the money Spotify pays out on those songs remains with the distributor until the threshold for payment to the artists is reached.
  — Matthew Ismael Ruiz, Pitchfork, 21 Nov. 2023
• This is because the film’s distributor, Warner Bros., owns the streaming platform.
  — Dina Kaur, The Arizona Republic, 31 Aug. 2023
• French distributors have to date passed on the movie, a first for Polanski, who lives in France and whose films have delivered dependably good box office there.
  — Scott Roxborough, The Hollywood Reporter, 2 Sep. 2023
• For any distributor, a long movie means fewer showtimes.
  — Pamela McClintock, The Hollywood Reporter, 19 Apr. 2023
• For decades, Widett Circle housed a cluster of food wholesalers and distributors who prized its easy access to downtown restaurants.
  — Jon Chesto, BostonGlobe.com, 12 Apr. 2023
• The cans of soda may contain foreign materials and, at this point, have been fully pulled from store shelves and distributors.
  — Abigail Wilt, Southern Living, 11 Dec. 2023
• The recall notice urged distributors and retailers to stop selling the products and for consumers to return them.
  — Kate Gibson, CBS News, 16 Nov. 2023
• Gas distributor Atmos Energy announced in the days following the blast that its gas lines and equipment did not cause the explosion.
  — Cody Copeland, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 28 Feb. 2024
• By the mid-1800s, the company had abandoned milling and became a flour distributor to Baltimore bakers.
  — Frederick N. Rasmussen, Baltimore Sun, 29 Apr. 2023
• Multiple outlets reported Tuesday that the movie's filmmakers will now seek a new distributor to sell the movie to.
  — Tommy McArdle, Peoplemag, 17 Jan. 2024
• But in 2018, Tatum’s distributor was unable to regularly source the ginger ale.
  — Hallie Lieberman, Smithsonian Magazine, 28 June 2023
• Years ago, one or two food distributors would make a single trip up the hill each week, limiting what restaurateurs could offer customers.
  — Jackie Valley, The Christian Science Monitor, 27 Oct. 2023
• But the 85-year-old — who had two careers, one as a popcorn distributor, the second as a commercial real estate broker — said that doesn’t always come across.
  — Mark Z. Barabak, Los Angeles Times, 22 Dec. 2023
• At a 2022 court hearing in the case over the company’s name, U.S. distributors described skyrocketing sales.
  — Matthew Perrone, Fortune Asia, 19 Dec. 2023
• For availability, check Wine.com, Wine-searcher.com and the websites and social media feeds of the wineries, importers or distributors.
  — Dave McIntyre, Washington Post, 11 May 2023
• Power and prestige lay not in amassing wealth but in assuring that wealth was shared wisely, and leaders earned support in part by being good providers and wise distributors.
  — Kathleen Duval, The Atlantic, 2 Apr. 2024
• His story had been snubbed by local distributors 10 years earlier for being too outlandish, but Netflix took a chance on it.
  — Max Kim, Los Angeles Times, 28 June 2023
• Nearly a mile from the dock on Monday morning, Terence van der Walt, a local wine distributor, was stuck in traffic when the odor, made worse by the hot summer weather, began to drift into his car.
  — Lynsey Chutel, New York Times, 20 Feb. 2024
• And like wine, the distributors of high-quality pepper will often proudly tout its origins.
  — Antara Sinha, Bon Appétit, 7 Jan. 2024
• This also happens to be a big moment for Aster, whose other films, Hereditary and Midsommar, were hits for the indie distributor.
  — Chris Gardner, The Hollywood Reporter, 11 Apr. 2023
• Mubi, the film’s distributor, chose to release it in theaters unrated.
  — Bill Goodykoontz, The Arizona Republic, 8 Aug. 2023
• Rocky had a job with a distributor of roofing materials.
  — E. Tammy Kim, The New Yorker, 15 Jan. 2024
• The Supreme Court has often said that free speech protection should not hinge on jurors’ and prosecutors’ best guesses about a distributor’s purpose.
  — Sophia Nguyen, Washington Post, 25 Apr. 2023
• Many of the renters were immigrants who ran blue-collar shops, including a pallet distributor, a mechanic shop and a recycler.
  — Rachel Uranga, Los Angeles Times, 21 Nov. 2023
• The move comes after the series tested theatrical debuts for two Christmas specials and a few Season 3 episodes, which brought in a whopping $40 million at the box office, per the show’s distributor, Fathom Events.
  — Monica Mercuri, Forbes, 21 Feb. 2024

Last Updated: 6 May 2024