How to Use meta in a Sentence

meta

adjective

• And this book should be Mott’s most meta.
  — Clare Mulroy, USA Today, 6 Aug. 2025
• Well, the snake is back, but this time with a meta twist.
  — Dan Heching, CNN Money, 29 Nov. 2025
• The first was so keen, with its snark and meta humor.
  — Michael Ordoña, San Francisco Chronicle, 26 Feb. 2026
• There was sort of like a meta aspect to it [laughs].
  — Simon Bland, IndieWire, 12 June 2026
• This movie is both a meta reboot and a send-up of reboots.
  — Brian Davids, HollywoodReporter, 25 Dec. 2025
• So exactly how meta did things get?
  — David Fear, Rolling Stone, 20 Mar. 2026
• That meta spin won’t stop anyone from singing it around a bonfire.
  — Nate Jones, Vulture, 20 May 2024
• And sometimes that comes with having to trust your gut and not get too meta.
  — William Earl, Variety, 1 Oct. 2025
• But there’s another, more meta theme of movies about movies this year.
  — Michael O'Sullivan, Washington Post, 3 Nov. 2022
• The dynamic of her and Eva felt meta.
  — Beatrice Verhoeven, HollywoodReporter, 21 Aug. 2025
• So the book wound up as a meta-group-portrait along the lines of a Bach suite.
  — Literary Hub, 1 June 2026
• There’s this very meta element to Starlight.
  — Brian Davids, HollywoodReporter, 22 Apr. 2026
• March muses at one point in the story in what feels like a meta wink to the reader.
  — Josh Weiss, Forbes, 10 Jan. 2025
• Your meta title should be short, sharp, and targeted.
  — Kim Komando The Kim Komando Show, FOXNews.com, 7 Aug. 2025
• So there is already some meta narration there.
  — Nick Vivarelli, Variety, 8 Sep. 2025
• Expect this meta sequel to make millions again.
  — Randy Myers, Mercury News, 23 May 2026
• Yes, The Comeback is meta, but that just felt a little cheap.
  — Louis Peitzman, Vulture, 30 Mar. 2026
• For one, the creative team might be sticking to the meta nature of the franchise.
  — Carly Thomas, HollywoodReporter, 11 June 2026
• The gathering proved to be a meta affair, more about process than substance.
  — Paul Elie, The New Yorker, 8 Nov. 2023
• Let’s talk about the meta ones where Gal is talking to her publicist and a lawyer.
  — David MacK, Vulture, 8 Aug. 2025
• The matchy-matchy makeup wasn't the only meta moment in the show, either.
  — Kara Nesvig, Allure, 25 Aug. 2025
• In a very meta way, the episode mirrors what’s on screen because it’s also shot as a oner.
  — Jazz Tangcay, Variety, 27 Mar. 2025
• The marketing campaign needed to be meta as well.
  — Aaron Couch, HollywoodReporter, 13 Feb. 2026
• The markets also encourage a kind of meta-game.
  — Charlie Warzel, The Atlantic, 5 Mar. 2026
• Maybe the annoyingly meta touch tacked on at the last second is supposed to be clever.
  — David Fear, Rolling Stone, 9 Oct. 2025
• And all of our crew said yes, which was hilariously meta and amazing.
  — Brian Davids, The Hollywood Reporter, 25 Oct. 2024
• As has frequently been the case with the show, the spirit takes a meta approach to his wisdom.
  — Daniel Fienberg, The Hollywood Reporter, 27 Sep. 2023
• Lennox and Kember are so good at playing these meta-textual tricks.
  — Sadie Sartini Garner, Pitchfork, 14 July 2026
• In the meta commercial, Ryan (as Ryan) just finds her sandwich to be bland.
  — Tony Maglio, IndieWire, 29 Jan. 2025
• There’s meta-commentary here about the ubiquity of stories like this one.
  — Judy Berman, Time, 19 Sep. 2025