the small screen

noun

: television
a movie made for the small screen

Examples of the small screen in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web But on the small screen, the show somehow passed as Revolutionary Popular Art. Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 13 July 2024 Motorola has done a good job customizing some apps to run on the small screen. PCMAG, 9 July 2024 In the 1990s, Sheehan pivoted to paternal roles on the small screen, most notably playing Cher Horowitz's father on the UPN adaptation of Clueless. Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 9 July 2024 In those years after the early Spider-Man and X-Men movies, but before the MCU completely reshaped pop culture, there was an obvious demand that had mostly gone unfilled on the small screen. Alan Sepinwall, Rolling Stone, 25 June 2024 See all Example Sentences for the small screen 

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“The small screen.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/the%20small%20screen. Accessed 27 Jul. 2024.

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