double bill

noun

: a bill (as at a theater) offering two features

Examples of double bill in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web With seven performances April 4-14, the program marks not only the company’s first double bill by female choreographers. Andrew Gilbert, The Mercury News, 1 Apr. 2024 Now, this spring—the Lenten timing is appropriate, perhaps, for this God-haunted writer—there’s a Shanley double bill. Vinson Cunningham, The New Yorker, 11 Mar. 2024 It’s been an exceptional time for movies: In the last 12 months, we were introduced to the double bill that broke the internet, singular science fiction dramas that broke our brains, and intimate, romantic dramas that broke our hearts. Helen Murphy, Vulture, 7 Feb. 2024 For Noir City’s 21st iteration, festival founder Eddie Muller of San Francisco came up with a novel approach to entice fans to Oakland’s Grand Lake Theatre: curating double bills that pair English language and international movies. Randy Myers, The Mercury News, 19 Jan. 2024 In three performances conducted by music director Esa-Pekka Salonen, the double bill program features pianist Jean-Yves Thibaudet, vocalists Michelle DeYoung and Gerald Finley, and narrator Breezy Leigh; Jenny Wong directs the SF Symphony Chorus. Randy McMullen, The Mercury News, 28 Feb. 2024 The original title, Cooke said, was Drive-Away Dykes, which purposefully suggests the second half of a Forty-Deuce grindhouse double bill. David Fear, Rolling Stone, 23 Feb. 2024 Thanksgiving began life as a fake trailer included in Quentin Tarantino and Robert Rodriguez's 2007 double bill Grindhouse. Clark Collis, EW.com, 7 Sep. 2023 In a December concert at the Park Avenue Armory, the International Contemporary Ensemble, of which Lewis is the artistic director, played his music on a double bill with a performance by the composer-pianist Amina Claudine Myers, another A.A.C.M. veteran. Alex Ross, The New Yorker, 8 Jan. 2024

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Word History

First Known Use

1917, in the meaning defined above

Time Traveler
The first known use of double bill was in 1917

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“Double bill.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/double%20bill. Accessed 27 Apr. 2024.

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