How to Use audience in a Sentence

audience

noun
  • The audience clapped and cheered.
  • Her audience is made up mostly of young women.
  • The concert attracted a large audience.
  • Fans in the audience screamed out the star’s last name.
    Paul Grein, Billboard, 28 Feb. 2024
  • The move is likely to broaden the audience for the event.
    Brian Steinberg, Variety, 7 Nov. 2023
  • The audience stretches back through the hall, past one of the two bathrooms and into the kitchen.
    Jackson Landers, SPIN, 8 June 2023
  • In Japan, everyone in the audience does the same thing.
    Billboard Japan, Billboard, 26 Oct. 2023
  • The audience gave a wild ovation, but the band demurred.
    Evan Minsker, Pitchfork, 26 Oct. 2023
  • When the band had run through eight or nine Killers songs, the audience applauded.
    Patrick Radden Keefe, The New Yorker, 25 Dec. 2023
  • War movies that take aim at male audiences — movies made to drive box office sales.
    Amanda Luberto, The Arizona Republic, 11 July 2023
  • And as the evening entered its sixth hour, the lights came up and the remaining audience stumbled off into the night.
    Jem Aswad, Variety, 4 Feb. 2024
  • Still, audiences came out in droves, turning it into one of the biggest movies of the summer.
    Keith Langston, Peoplemag, 7 Aug. 2023
  • In one scene that made the Tribeca audience groan, Howard Stern does a parody in blackface.
    Rob Sheffield, Rolling Stone, 17 June 2023
  • There is enough chemistry between the two to make the audience hope might just end more happily in this retelling.
    Elaine Schmidt, Journal Sentinel, 11 Jan. 2024
  • While the show’s total audience grew a bit, ratings among adults 18-49 slipped a little.
    Rick Porter, The Hollywood Reporter, 11 Mar. 2024
  • In the plaza afterward, the audience enjoyed a nice summer’s night with food vendors and a jazz band.
    Teju Cole, New York Times, 12 Sep. 2023
  • Yet this is a decades-long conflict that few know about, and so the film forces the audience to reckon with its own ignorance.
    Murtada Elfadl, Variety, 22 Mar. 2024
  • But the question is more about what was going on that made audiences receptive to you at that time.
    David Marchese David Marchese Photograph By Mamadi Doumbouya, New York Times, 1 Oct. 2023
  • At first, the audience appeared reluctant to shake it off.
    Angela Yang, NBC News, 13 Oct. 2023
  • Our art direction tries to bring the flavors of Old City, Ahmedabad, to the global audience.
    Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 11 Mar. 2024
  • With drama as compelling as the action, the film proudly breathes its nuclear breath so the audience can feel the heat.
    Patrick Brzeski, The Hollywood Reporter, 1 Dec. 2023
  • That’s why the first image audiences see is not the character herself.
    Peter Marks, Washington Post, 2 Oct. 2023
  • But there’s a precedent for college stars bringing large audiences with them to the WNBA.
    Alex Leeds Matthews and Ben Morse, CNN, 23 Mar. 2024
  • And she’s been adamant about giving her audience its money’s worth.
    Larisha Paul, Rolling Stone, 1 Dec. 2023
  • Quickly, the audience learns that Elizabeth is not like other women at the lab—and Calvin isn't like the other men.
    Eliana Dockterman, TIME, 13 Oct. 2023
  • The move is a blow to Fox News, which will be airing the first debate and has been losing audience to other far-right news outlets.
    Josh Dawsey, Washington Post, 19 Aug. 2023
  • Many in the audience traveled to witness history in the making.
    Sydney Haywood, NBC News, 18 Nov. 2023
  • My dad never got to sing those songs in front of an audience that big, at Coachella, of people who adore him and his sound and his message.
    Brian Hiatt, Rolling Stone, 15 Feb. 2024
  • That included turning up the heat in the theater and pretending to chain the doors, trapping the audience inside.
    Jenelle Riley, Variety, 20 Sep. 2023
  • That’s the effect 10-year-old Graceyn has on her devoted audience.
    Veronica Wells, Essence, 8 June 2023

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