How to Use on the air in a Sentence

on the air

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  • This is your third week on the air.
    Jeff Ihaza, Rolling Stone, 10 Feb. 2026
  • The show hadn’t been on the air yet.
    Emlyn Travis Published, EW.com, 13 Aug. 2025
  • The show might still be on the air!
    Jordan Hoffman, EW.com, 5 Aug. 2025
  • Now, it’s been on the air for decades.
    Stephanie Nolasco, FOXNews.com, 13 Dec. 2025
  • That’ll be on the air later this year.
    Jesse Whittock, Deadline, 25 Mar. 2026
  • The station was lucky to have him on the air.
    Daniela Avila, PEOPLE, 30 Oct. 2025
  • Will South Park still be on the air?
    Phil Stark, HollywoodReporter, 4 Dec. 2025
  • So now as long as my show is on the air, her spirit is right there.
    Lynette Rice, Deadline, 24 Feb. 2025
  • Daytime is on the air 52 weeks out of the year.
    Jobina Fortson-Evans, CBS News, 24 Feb. 2026
  • Chip helps by finding someone to talk about jets on the air.
    Kimberly Roots, TVLine, 8 Oct. 2025
  • Other live and live-ish shows will be on the air even sooner.
    Mikey O'Connell, The Hollywood Reporter, 25 Sep. 2023
  • Even so, top brass have been engaged in talks to get the late-night host back on the air.
    Dominic Patten, Deadline, 18 Sep. 2025
  • Scrubs joins a long list of beloved sitcoms that have come back on the air over the past decade or so.
    Andy Greene, Rolling Stone, 11 Feb. 2026
  • Within a week, Kimmel’s show was back on the air.
    Donald Nieman, The Conversation, 7 Oct. 2025
  • The city and the station became his home during a long run on the air.
    Robert Channick, Chicago Tribune, 23 Feb. 2026
  • But McCoy hasn't made a hoop-de-do about the move on the air.
    Richard Ruelas, The Arizona Republic, 28 Apr. 2023
  • With this premiere date, Murphy will have five shows on the air this fall.
    Joe Otterson, Variety, 13 Aug. 2024
  • When Bozo first went on the air, grade-school students went home for lunch.
    Ron Grossman, Chicago Tribune, 26 Mar. 2023
  • To listen to him on the air was the same as listening to him in my office.
    Jacques Kelly, Baltimore Sun, 8 Sep. 2023
  • Kidd Kraddick wanted to talk to him on the air in front of millions.
    Andy Greene, Rolling Stone, 6 Feb. 2024
  • But what does that say about the news organizations that put them on the air?
    Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 31 Aug. 2023
  • No glimpse of man in this lonely mountain, Yet faint voices drift on the air.
    Wyatt Mason, Harper's Magazine, 26 Apr. 2024
  • The married couple and co-hosts get up to lots of fun and jokes while on the air together.
    Antonia Debianchi, Peoplemag, 24 Oct. 2023
  • The occasional whiff of ash still floated on the air.
    Cheri Mossburg, CNN Money, 26 Nov. 2025
  • Jimmy Kimmel is going back on the air.
    Ryan Whitwam, ArsTechnica, 22 Sep. 2025
  • To manage the humidity in your home, take hold of the reins on the air that comes and goes.
    Hallie Milstein, Southern Living, 17 July 2025
  • The renewal will take the show through its 30th season on the air.
    Jack Dunn, Variety, 15 May 2024
  • Rick even once sent in a joke to Leno in the early ’90s, which made it on the air.
    Alex Gurley, Peoplemag, 13 Dec. 2023
  • Mark Consuelos hung his head in his hands as his wife spoke about her bra and chest size on the air.
    EW.com, 13 Aug. 2025
  • Jimmy Kimmel is getting back on the air.
    James Hibberd, HollywoodReporter, 22 Sep. 2025

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