How to Use streaming in a Sentence

streaming

1 of 2 noun
  • There is no streaming date yet.
    Patrick Ryan, USA Today, 8 May 2026
  • Big shoutout to the whole streaming world.
    Preezy Brown, VIBE.com, 17 Oct. 2025
  • It’s done very well on streaming.
    Todd Spangler, Variety, 20 May 2026
  • And thanks to streaming, there’s a lot more to watch.
    Essence, 2 Oct. 2025
  • The youth surge is even more pronounced on streaming.
    Josef Adalian, Vulture, 30 Oct. 2025
  • The streaming release has been paused at the last minute.
    Zac Ntim, Deadline, 17 Oct. 2025
  • No one was doing sports in streaming.
    Dade Hayes, Deadline, 30 Apr. 2026
  • Crave’s busiest time of the year for streaming numbers.
    Jesse Whittock, Deadline, 15 May 2026
  • All three episodes will be available for streaming.
    Sarah Scott, Parents, 26 Sep. 2025
  • Read my weekend streaming guide right here.
    Erik Kain, Forbes.com, 30 Aug. 2025
  • With the film now hitting streaming, here's what to know about how to watch.
    Saman Shafiq, USA Today, 23 Apr. 2026
  • But in 2026, streaming has lost a lot of steam.
    Tristan Bove, Fortune, 6 Mar. 2026
  • Half of them are looking to step up in social video and streaming.
    Dade Hayes, Deadline, 8 May 2026
  • Don't have a streaming service?
    Jibin Joseph, PC Magazine, 12 June 2026
  • Swift has already racked up five leaders on the streaming chart.
    Hugh McIntyre, Forbes.com, 19 June 2026
  • The movie was always going to be on streaming.
    Brian Davids, HollywoodReporter, 3 Apr. 2026
  • Now, the two sides are struggling over the fallout of the rapid shift to streaming.
    Meg James, Los Angeles Times, 8 Aug. 2023
  • Check the links below for past weekend streaming guides.
    Erik Kain, Forbes.com, 30 Aug. 2025
  • Check the links below for past weekend streaming guides.
    Erik Kain, Forbes.com, 19 Sep. 2025
  • How many new movies that streaming services are throwing at film lovers this week.
    Brian Truitt, USA Today, 27 Mar. 2026
  • Catch it all streaming on Peacock.
    The Sports Desk, NBC news, 20 Feb. 2026
  • Catch it all streaming on Peacock.
    The Sports Desk, NBC news, 14 Feb. 2026
  • Catch it all streaming on Peacock.
    The Sports Desk, NBC news, 7 Feb. 2026
  • Here’s what’s streaming and where to catch them on the big screen in Chicago.
    Grace Miserocchi, Chicago Tribune, 14 Mar. 2026
  • And most people don’t have access to streaming.
    Essie Assibu, Variety, 31 Aug. 2025
  • The song was banned by major streaming platforms.
    CBS News, 5 Apr. 2026
  • Yeah, that’s one of the advantages of streaming.
    Brian Davids, HollywoodReporter, 3 Oct. 2025
  • What streaming movie should have premiered in theaters?
    Rebecca Rubin, Variety, 10 Apr. 2026
  • To not just cancel it but to remove it from the streaming service.
    James Hibberd, The Hollywood Reporter, 3 Apr. 2024
  • Learn more about Walmart+ streaming offers here.
    Erin Lassner, HollywoodReporter, 8 Feb. 2026

streaming

2 of 2 adjective
  • There’s a trend, at least in part of the streaming world, away from ads.
    Eric Johnson, Recode, 13 Sep. 2018
  • In the pre-streaming era, Blockbuster video stores were everywhere.
    oregonlive, 2 Dec. 2022
  • Is there any anti-streaming sentiment in the writers' room?
    Wesley Stenzel, Entertainment Weekly, 28 Sep. 2025
  • One of the appeals of the streaming world for talent is that there aren’t any quick-turnaround ratings for the world to pick over.
    Imani Moise, WSJ, 14 Sep. 2017
  • Then one day, boom, the streaming subscription service thing happens.
    Recode Staff, Recode, 13 July 2018
  • Acer is not the only firm to try its hand at launching a streaming-centric handheld device.
    Will McCurdy, PC Magazine, 30 May 2026
  • Blame anti-streaming bias, which is part of why Green Book won in 2019.
    Scott Mendelson, Forbes, 26 Apr. 2021
  • Also playing a role was the circa-2000s pre-streaming landscape.
    Sydney Urbanek, Billboard, 23 Mar. 2022
  • Reckless rose to prominence after forging a large following in Texas in the pre-streaming era.
    ABC News, 26 Mar. 2026
  • The players participating at that stage are often too focused on the game to have strong streaming careers.
    Nick Statt, The Verge, 30 July 2019
  • That actually was one of the big advantages of network television back in the pre-streaming era.
    Dalton Ross, Entertainment Weekly, 2 Apr. 2026
  • But thanks to the internet’s greatest streaming sleuths, the process of narrowing down your choices doesn’t have to be so overwhelming.
    Rachel E. Greenspan, Time, 3 July 2019
  • Yet the streaming drama isn’t all about its titular (possible) messiah.
    Ariana Romero, refinery29.com, 1 Jan. 2020
  • That's good for consumers, who have been caught in the middle of a battle between two titans that has made the streaming world needlessly complicated.
    The Washington Post, NOLA.com, 5 June 2017
  • While most global studios are tightening belts in the face of a post-streaming-boom contraction, Mediawan is scaling up.
    Scott Roxborough, HollywoodReporter, 25 Aug. 2025
  • In fact, Sams reports that every Scarlett game will run on every Scarlett device, so streaming gamers won't be left out.
    Peter Bright, Ars Technica, 23 July 2018
  • Meanwhile, hip-hop had emerged as the clear sound of the streaming world, which was beginning to dictate the momentum of radio and the charts to an unprecedented degree.
    Da’shan Smith, Billboard, 16 Nov. 2017
  • The streaming drama, which got a linear sampling on Sunday evening, has already been seen by nearly 10 million viewers.
    Michael O'Connell, The Hollywood Reporter, 25 Sep. 2017
  • Nonetheless, eMarketer notes that the streaming device market is still growing, with Roku remaining in the lead.
    Leo Sun, USA TODAY, 22 Aug. 2017
  • Did Netflix overpay for two films that in a pre-streaming world would have been seen as reliable bets to release in theaters when a studio didn’t have blockbusters to offer?
    New York Times, 19 Apr. 2021
  • As Variety explored at length in a cover story last year, this group of filmmakers have been marginalized in a post-streaming world of shrinking budgets.
    Matt Donnelly, Variety, 17 June 2026
  • If that show was indie antics on late-night Netflix, this one feels more like a throwback to the network prime-time mysteries of a pre-streaming era, but her charm carries it.
    Taylor Antrim, Vogue, 30 Jan. 2023
  • The streaming subscription service is scheduled to premiere in April 2020.
    Ariana Romero, refinery29.com, 6 Apr. 2020
  • But, in the pre-pandemic era (and, even more, in the pre-streaming era), a film’s artistic value wasn’t necessarily at odds with its commercial appeal.
    Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 26 Dec. 2022
  • Amazon Prime's streaming lineup additions for March range from the super-serious to the kinda silly.
    Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 16 Feb. 2018
  • Spielberg has sometimes been seen as anti-streaming, an impression the director argued against in 2019.
    Jake Coyle, chicagotribune.com, 21 June 2021
  • The rise of clipping, says Schwartz, has leveled the promotional playing field as the record business is in the midst of a larger post-streaming transformation.
    Steven J. Horowitz, Variety, 26 Mar. 2026
  • But because of how streaming services have changed viewing behavior since 2014, programs with a bigger audience than four years ago are rare.
    David Bauder, The Seattle Times, 24 Feb. 2018
  • The ability to connect to any Wi-Fi network is a standard feature in most streaming boxes, obviously.
    Jon Brodkin, Ars Technica, 23 Oct. 2019
  • But in Disney’s non-streaming world pre-2019, the ideas Gilroy came up with seemed too costly and ambitious for television.
    David Betancourt, Washington Post, 20 Sep. 2022

Some of these examples are programmatically compiled from various online sources to illustrate current usage of the word 'streaming.' Any opinions expressed in the examples do not represent those of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback about these examples.

Last Updated: