Examples of movie house in a Sentence
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Before it was featured on Ben and Erin Napier's Home Town Takeover on HGTV, the town's biggest claim to fame was as the home of the Big Fish movie house.
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Tara Massouleh McCay,
Southern Living,
17 June 2026
Find a bargain movie house and enjoy an afternoon at the movies.
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Parents,
11 June 2026
The movie house reopened under new ownership in 1978 and operated on and off showing second-runs of current movies at bargain prices until about 2000, according to Courier-News reports.
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Mike Danahey,
Chicago Tribune,
15 Apr. 2026
It had been converted into a studio by Jim and Estelle from the bones of a movie house.
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Jonathan Bernstein,
Rolling Stone,
14 Apr. 2026
CinemaSFbay, the nonprofit that operates the Balboa, Vogue and 4 Star theaters in San Francisco, revealed that the indie movie house’s 100th anniversary celebration is scheduled for April 18.
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G. Allen Johnson,
San Francisco Chronicle,
10 Mar. 2026
And that’s why films like Hamnet deserve a theatrical release — not just releasing it into the world with clusters of five or six people sitting around a living room watching television, but altogether in the great unknown of a dark movie house.
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Scott Feinberg,
HollywoodReporter,
29 Jan. 2026
The show is fittingly given a live theater setting, with the characters working in a Depression-era movie house.
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Christopher Arnott,
Hartford Courant,
12 Jan. 2026
By 2023, Berkeley’s last downtown movie house, the 90-year-old United Artists Theater shuttered its doors for good as part of a series of closures by Cineworld, a company with theaters across the world.
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Sierra Lopez,
Mercury News,
23 Nov. 2025
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Tara Massouleh McCay,
Southern Living,
17 June 2026
Find a bargain movie house and enjoy an afternoon at the movies.
—
Parents,
11 June 2026
The movie house reopened under new ownership in 1978 and operated on and off showing second-runs of current movies at bargain prices until about 2000, according to Courier-News reports.
—
Mike Danahey,
Chicago Tribune,
15 Apr. 2026
It had been converted into a studio by Jim and Estelle from the bones of a movie house.
—
Jonathan Bernstein,
Rolling Stone,
14 Apr. 2026
CinemaSFbay, the nonprofit that operates the Balboa, Vogue and 4 Star theaters in San Francisco, revealed that the indie movie house’s 100th anniversary celebration is scheduled for April 18.
—
G. Allen Johnson,
San Francisco Chronicle,
10 Mar. 2026
And that’s why films like Hamnet deserve a theatrical release — not just releasing it into the world with clusters of five or six people sitting around a living room watching television, but altogether in the great unknown of a dark movie house.
—
Scott Feinberg,
HollywoodReporter,
29 Jan. 2026
The show is fittingly given a live theater setting, with the characters working in a Depression-era movie house.
—
Christopher Arnott,
Hartford Courant,
12 Jan. 2026
By 2023, Berkeley’s last downtown movie house, the 90-year-old United Artists Theater shuttered its doors for good as part of a series of closures by Cineworld, a company with theaters across the world.
—
Sierra Lopez,
Mercury News,
23 Nov. 2025
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“Movie house.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/movie%20house. Accessed 26 Jun. 2026.
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