How to Use world-building in a Sentence

world-building

noun

• That sort of world-building for your pet won’t come cheap.
  — Boone Ashworth, WIRED, 15 Oct. 2024
• If the first film felt like endless world-building and set-up, have no fear.
  — Scott Phillips, Forbes, 4 Jan. 2025
• This theme park is also home to live shows and a great deal of careful world-building.
  — Brittany Allen, Literary Hub, 17 June 2025
• That kind of world-building appealed to him more than the story of this kid who becomes a god.
  — WIRED, 19 Sep. 2023
• The 40-year-old was also inspired by Dior’s world-building skills.
  — Joelle Diderich, Footwear News, 27 June 2025
• That is the beauty of Barbie Land logic and world-building.
  — André-Naquian Wheeler, Vogue, 20 July 2023
• Walker’s world-building around the opaque adult Jane, though, is less assured.
  — Leah Greenblatt, New York Times, 25 Feb. 2025
• Each outfit in this sense serves as a memory and a call toward the work of world-building.
  — Najha Zigbi-Johnson, Essence, 30 Apr. 2025
• People certainly aren’t looking for the next Game of Thrones or the next world-building show.
  — Lacey Rose, The Hollywood Reporter, 30 Nov. 2023
• What does work in this film are the performances and some elements of its world-building.
  — Lovia Gyarkye, HollywoodReporter, 23 May 2025
• In this deep dive into world-building, we’re thrust 300 years into the future.
  — Randy Myers, The Mercury News, 25 Jan. 2024
• To date, the SSU has failed to generate the success or world-building Sony hoped for and intended.
  — Mark Hughes, Forbes, 12 Dec. 2024
• Elsewhere in the interview, Elliott discussed some of the plans for world-building in this next film.
  — Charlotte Phillipp, Peoplemag, 22 Apr. 2024
• Billion-dollar world-building aside, The Rings of Power plods.
  — TIME, 7 Feb. 2024
• This Easter egg is Lynchian world-building at its best.
  — Max Evry, WIRED, 10 Jan. 2024
• Burton, long revered for his quirky world-building genius, needs to get his macabre back, bigtime.
  — Karen D'souza, The Mercury News, 25 Sep. 2024
• The result of their joint artistic labor amounts to idiosyncratic world-building with a retro sheen.
  — Carlos Aguilar, Variety, 31 Jan. 2025
• The Rhode campaigns have become an exercise in world-building for Bieber.
  — Hikmat Mohammed, Footwear News, 9 June 2025
• The elaborate world-building and precinct plot yielded a timeless film that would be studied and enjoyed for decades to come.
  — Jordan Runtagh, Peoplemag, 31 Mar. 2024
• How this all will ultimately lead to world-building applications is hazy—and that’s part of the point.
  — Allie Garfinkle, Fortune, 3 July 2025
• Its cross-cultural world-building—etched, with shabbily retro flair, in boxy frames of grainy 16-mm.
  — Justin Chang, The New Yorker, 10 Feb. 2025
• Keith Herron’s world-building with his brand Advisry has been in the making since his teen years.
  — Kerane Marcellus, Essence, 8 Sep. 2024
• Amy Faulks Amy Faulks is a master of complex world-building, whose artistry is to blend mystery-thriller with deep human emotions.
  — Sixteen Ramos, USA Today, 9 May 2025
• Like all world-building for the big screen, recreating the Bridgerton universe based on Julia Quinn’s novels is no small feat.
  — Rachel Silva, ELLE Decor, 8 Sep. 2023
• The visuals the group puts out—the single shot, world-building videos—are clearly a central part of their identity, but the music stands on its own as well.
  — Liam Hess, Vogue, 23 Oct. 2023
• Again, in between the firefights, there is also a lot of immersive world-building and bickering with a robot who has a heart of gold.
  — Adrienne So, WIRED, 30 Jan. 2024
• Readers get all the best parts of swoony love story tropes, magical world-building and high-stakes adventure.
  — Clare Mulroy, USA TODAY, 14 Dec. 2024
• The books are epic in every sense of the word, from their incredible world-building to an extensive cast of characters.
  — Milan Polk, Men's Health, 28 Aug. 2023
• The martial arts choreography, supporting cast, and world-building all make for a knockout time.
  — Tanya Melendez, EW.com, 1 Aug. 2025
• Eddington isn’t the first film to take advantage of virtual world-building by incorporating social-media feeds and messaging apps into its visuals.
  — Shirley Li, The Atlantic, 18 July 2025