B movie

noun

Definition of B movienext
as in animated cartoon

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Recent Examples of B movie Lowbrow sources such as Sunday funnies, B movies, and advertisements are present but are more diffuse, rarely coalescing into obvious quotation. — Jeremy Lybarger, Artforum, 2 June 2026 Well, now their lives are a bad B movie inside a formulaic musical. — Sara Holdren, Vulture, 23 Apr. 2026 Reading a King novel is a bit like reading a work by Henry James into which someone has slipped, at intervals, script treatments for a B movie. — Charlie Tyson, Harpers Magazine, 21 Apr. 2026 Estelle was a fan of more sophisticated shows like The Twilight Zone, not this B movie selection. — Literary Hub, 19 Aug. 2025 See All Example Sentences for B movie
Recent Examples of Synonyms for B movie
  1. B picture
  2. documentary
  3. feature
Noun
  • Once upon a time, movie houses were full of all sorts of pictures — big pictures, little pictures, A pictures, B pictures, smart pictures, silly pictures.
    — Robert Lloyd, Boston Herald, 7 Aug. 2025
  • Nevertheless, old movies did creep onto TV through the 1950s, beginning with B pictures on local stations and gradually progressing to A pictures in network prime time.
    — Robert Lloyd, Los Angeles Times, 1 Aug. 2023
Definition of B picture
Noun
  • Evelyn’s life and journey out of the Followers is the subject of a story and documentary published by The Oregonian/OregonLive and ProPublica.
    — Noelle Crombie, ProPublica, 11 Nov. 2026
  • The allegations against Walliams appear in a long-form article in The Guardian as well as in an hour-long news documentary on the British news channel ITV.
    — Fran Hoepfner, Vulture, 10 Nov. 2026
Definition of documentary
Noun
  • Mobile service vehicles for the Miami-Dade Tax Collector’s Office feature jumbo images of Tax Collector Dariel Fernandez, a Republican who was also elected in 2024.
    — Douglas Hanks, Miami Herald, 12 Nov. 2026
  • That leaves a temporary distinction between ChatGPT’s standard voice conversations and its interactive visual features.
    — Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 11 Nov. 2026
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