How to Use trilogy in a Sentence

trilogy

noun
  • Meanwhile, two more parts of the trilogy are in the works.
    Steve Smith, courant.com, 7 Sep. 2021
  • The Three-Body Problem is the first in a trilogy that spans, in the end, millions of years.
    Vanessa Armstrong, Vulture, 27 July 2023
  • The next trilogy of episodes are focused on the Big Three.
    Karen Mizoguchi, PEOPLE.com, 8 Mar. 2022
  • This is the flick that started it all in The Hunger Games trilogy.
    Samantha Olson, Seventeen, 29 Aug. 2022
  • And that’s a picture wrap on the Guardians of the Galaxy trilogy.
    Zack Sharf, Variety, 10 May 2022
  • The other two options take all the air out of the trilogy.
    Lance Pugmire, USA TODAY, 9 Apr. 2022
  • This the first in a trilogy, based on Jenny Han's books.
    Stacey Grant, Seventeen, 22 Apr. 2023
  • Which is in accordance with the trilogy of books the show is based on.
    Kathleen Walsh, Glamour, 2 May 2025
  • When the first book in the trilogy was published in 2009, most of its readers were young teens.
    Malia Mendez, Los Angeles Times, 19 Aug. 2023
  • That’s a new price record for the second leg in the trilogy of the modern reboot.
    Quentyn Kennemer, The Verge, 2 Oct. 2024
  • For some of you, The Kissing Booth 3 may be at the top of the list, bringing an end to this rom-com trilogy.
    Jacob Siegal, BGR, 8 Aug. 2021
  • This version of Spidey didn't even make it to a trilogy.
    Good Housekeeping, 6 Apr. 2023
  • But those kids have grown up, and those movies are now their ‘Star Wars’ trilogy.
    Glenn Whipp, Los Angeles Times, 17 June 2024
  • The trilogy fight between the two saw Shevchenko walk away from UFC 306 with the title back in her hands.
    Trent Reinsmith, Forbes, 17 Mar. 2025
  • The one that took me by surprise, though, was the second trilogy.
    Kaitlyn Bancroft, The Salt Lake Tribune, 21 Oct. 2021
  • The world’s favorite plush bear is back to complete the film trilogy.
    Samantha Bergeson, IndieWire, 12 June 2024
  • Sony purchased the rights to adapt the Broken Earth trilogy as films.
    Christian Holub, EW.com, 29 Oct. 2021
  • Only the rest of the trilogy can tell us whether the same will hold for any of its characters.
    Kathryn Schulz, The New Yorker, 27 Sep. 2021
  • But in any case, Crossroads, we are now told, is the first volume of a trilogy.
    Alan Jacobs, Harper's Magazine, 28 Sep. 2021
  • The answer is Oak Mountain, and the trilogy of terror hasn’t been kind to the Eagles.
    Bill Lumpkin Iii, al, 28 Oct. 2021
  • And there are plans for a third that will close out the modern Michael Myers trilogy.
    Lindsey Bahr, USA TODAY, 18 Oct. 2021
  • And Simon Kinberg, who wrote many of the X-Men movies, has signed on to do a trilogy for the franchise.
    Eliana Dockterman, Time, 22 Apr. 2025
  • The film is a reboot of the film trilogy that launched with Dungeons & Dragons (2000).
    Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 22 July 2022
  • Needless to say, though, the original trilogy are the ones to seek out.
    WIRED, 23 Sep. 2022
  • The beloved The Santa Clause trilogy is back, this time in the form of a television series.
    Maggie Horton, Country Living, 5 Sep. 2022
  • But, Philibert explained, the trilogy was not part of a plan.
    Lise Pedersen, Variety, 22 May 2024
  • The new album is billed as the second part of a trilogy that began with last year’s BB/Ang3l.
    Matthew Strauss, Pitchfork, 28 June 2024
  • The Matrix Online picked up where the film trilogy left off.
    Richard Newby, Vulture, 23 Dec. 2021
  • Of the trilogy, The Sea Around Us is by far the most vivid and intoxicating.
    Amy Brady, Scientific American, 19 Nov. 2021
  • Adapted from Jenny Han's book trilogy, the series structured each season around one novel, with showrunners confirming that the third season will wrap up the main story arc, according to The Mirror.
    Tom Rogers, MSNBC Newsweek, 29 Apr. 2025

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