Examples of movie house in a Sentence
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The Lyric Theater, which was built in the 1920s as a silent movie house, regularly hosts plays, musicals, and performances from big-name talent in its grand, 500-seat theater.
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Tara Massouleh McCay, Southern Living, 6 Aug. 2025
In downtown Dolton was the Dolton Theatre, a movie house that showed first-run films and also cartoons and special features.
—Olivia Stevens, Chicago Tribune, 15 July 2025
The Falls, which has boasted a multiplex since the mall’s opening in 1980, will see its Regal movie house revamped, reopened and renamed the Regal Bistro at The Falls in late summer.
—Howard Cohen
july 11, Miami Herald, 11 July 2025
Providence Performing Arts Center This 3,100-seat historic theater in PVD’s downtown began life as a Loews movie house in 1928.
—Ellen Carpenter, AFAR Media, 2 July 2025
The 650-capacity theater, which was built in 1923 as a movie house, stopped showing films in the mid-1970s, said co-owner Scott Happel, and has essentially remained the same since then.
—John Wenzel, Denver Post, 19 June 2025
Or, catch a screening at Cinema Rif, a classic movie house that puts on other cultural programming, often in French.
—Paul Brady, Travel + Leisure, 8 May 2025
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Tara Massouleh McCay, Southern Living, 6 Aug. 2025
In downtown Dolton was the Dolton Theatre, a movie house that showed first-run films and also cartoons and special features.
—Olivia Stevens, Chicago Tribune, 15 July 2025
The Falls, which has boasted a multiplex since the mall’s opening in 1980, will see its Regal movie house revamped, reopened and renamed the Regal Bistro at The Falls in late summer.
—Howard Cohen
july 11, Miami Herald, 11 July 2025
Providence Performing Arts Center This 3,100-seat historic theater in PVD’s downtown began life as a Loews movie house in 1928.
—Ellen Carpenter, AFAR Media, 2 July 2025
The 650-capacity theater, which was built in 1923 as a movie house, stopped showing films in the mid-1970s, said co-owner Scott Happel, and has essentially remained the same since then.
—John Wenzel, Denver Post, 19 June 2025
Or, catch a screening at Cinema Rif, a classic movie house that puts on other cultural programming, often in French.
—Paul Brady, Travel + Leisure, 8 May 2025
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“Movie house.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/movie%20house. Accessed 10 Sep. 2025.
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