How to Use megahit in a Sentence

megahit

noun
  • His latest movie was a megahit.
  • The company knows these won't be a megahit, and a spokesperson says that's OK.
    Arielle Pardes, WIRED, 13 Aug. 2019
  • All three Sonic movies have done great, Super Mario Bros. was a megahit.
    Paul Tassi, Forbes, 21 Dec. 2024
  • Yazbek didn’t grow up dreaming of writing the next Broadway megahit.
    Rebecca Milzoff, Billboard, 2 Nov. 2017
  • News of a show based on the megahit book series first leaked on April 3, but details have now been confirmed.
    Angelique Jackson, Variety, 12 Apr. 2023
  • Last week: Spider-Man launches the age of the superhero megahit.
    Darren Franich, EW.com, 10 May 2022
  • Starlight Theatre Elice argues that the stories, as well as the music, carry the megahit shows.
    Kate Miller, kansascity, 21 June 2017
  • But now ones like Fallout, Amazon Prime Video’s megahit?
    Paul Tassi, Forbes, 21 Oct. 2024
  • News of a show based on the megahit J.K. Rowling book series first leaked on April 3, but details have now been confirmed.
    Joe Otterson, Variety, 12 Apr. 2023
  • Production on the last run of the megahit series is roughly halfway done.
    Joe Otterson, Variety, 16 July 2024
  • Her credits included megahits like This Is Us and Glee.
    Mia Galuppo, HollywoodReporter, 27 Mar. 2025
  • From his home in Northeast London, Rowland tells us the whole story behind the beloved megahit.
    Liza Lentini, Spin, 15 Aug. 2023
  • The two best friends — who met while working on Nickelodeon’s megahit Blue’s Clues, which Johnson created in 1996 — couldn’t make sense of it.
    Julian Sancton, The Hollywood Reporter, 15 Aug. 2024
  • Sony’s studios growing from small to megahit producers took a decade, in some instances.
    Paul Tassi, Forbes, 11 Apr. 2021
  • Could the members have, in their forced retirement, seen their megahit as bearing a new meaning: Success, come back?
    Tom Zoellner, SPIN, 27 Nov. 2024
  • The Kansas City summer theater scene has gone retro with a spate of megahit jukebox musicals.
    Kate Miller, kansascity.com, 21 June 2017
  • That show is House of David, the first season launching it anywhere from the #4 to #2 show on the platform, behind only Reacher, Amazon’s megahit, at times.
    Paul Tassi, Forbes, 22 Mar. 2025
  • The Last of Us is the storied channel’s latest breakout megahit, here’s a fun new bit of data to join its rave reviews and high premiere numbers.
    Paul Tassi, Forbes, 24 Jan. 2023
  • Ballerini took the stage solo, singing from a couch before Kahan launched into his megahit amidst tall grass.
    Tomás Mier, Rolling Stone, 16 May 2024
  • The megahit Paramount Network show will resume production on the final episodes of its fifth and final season in late spring 2024.
    Joe Otterson, Variety, 16 Nov. 2023
  • The megahits of 2024 were inseparable from their back stories.
    Jon Pareles, New York Times, 28 Dec. 2024
  • Where will PopCap Games’ megahit puzzle game Bejeweled pop up next?
    Earnest Cavalli, WIRED, 19 Sep. 2008
  • After Netflix picked up You from Lifetime in 2018, the show about a murderous psychopath became a megahit and spawned three more seasons.
    Jihane Bousfiha, Men's Health, 20 Jan. 2023
  • Guards in ‘Squid Game,’ which has become an unexpected megahit for Netflix.
    Timothy W. Martin, WSJ, 6 Oct. 2021
  • Guests clamored for selfies with Peacock’s megahit stars and asked for insights about the shocking finale that brought in huge viewership.
    Elizabeth Taylor, Variety, 11 Mar. 2024
  • Even flops refine algorithms, fueling megahits like Stranger Things and Squid Game.
    Jessica Mendoza, Forbes.com, 1 Apr. 2025
  • The Disney megahit, which has surpassed $1 billion at the global box office, features a black king of a highly-advanced African kingdom.
    Kevin Rector, baltimoresun.com, 13 Mar. 2018
  • Swift — who is a big fan of the ballroom bash and has previously performed on the show — is currently wrapping up the South American leg of her megahit Eras Tour.
    Anna Chan, Billboard, 22 Nov. 2023
  • Shows, save for maybe megahits like Stranger Things, start to lose their ability to attract new subscribers after a certain number of years, and their value goes down.
    Angela Watercutter, WIRED, 13 Nov. 2023
  • Lacoste’s new cologne smells like cloves and pine, and Gabriella Sabatini’s megahit in the 1980s was a disco floral that smelled like being drunk on vacation.
    Longreads, 9 Jan. 2018

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