How to Use blockbuster in a Sentence

blockbuster

noun

• No one would need a show that retold the same blockbuster movie.
  — Jessica Radloff, Glamour, 28 Jan. 2024
• The crew from the latest Godzilla blockbuster were thrilled by their win.
  — Chris Lau, CNN, 12 Mar. 2024
• There’s lens flare worthy of a J.J. Abrams blockbuster.
  — Amanda Kooser, Forbes, 1 Mar. 2024
• The New Year’s weekend box office this year lacked a true blockbuster.
  — Jake Coyle, Fortune, 31 Dec. 2023
• Guests aren’t always the A-listers with blockbuster TV shows or films to promote.
  — Mark Kennedy, BostonGlobe.com, 16 Sep. 2023
• The final act features some of the best blockbuster filmmaking in years.
  — Lucas Trevor, Washington Post, 30 Nov. 2023
• Amy Grant has had nothing short of a blockbuster career.
  — Jim Harrington, The Mercury News, 5 Feb. 2024
• But it’s not expected to produce the kind of blockbuster numbers that raise the stock prices of movie theaters.
  — Rebecca Rubin, Variety, 4 Mar. 2024
• As was the case was during the first half of last year, there have been few blockbuster sales so far this year, with the largest topping out at $53 million.
  — Lori Weisberg, San Diego Union-Tribune, 17 Aug. 2023
• Morris, 33, was acquired last season as a part of the blockbuster Kyrie Irving trade.
  — Sportsday Staff, Dallas News, 29 Aug. 2023
• In doing so, Mulkey turned a non-story into a blockbuster.
  — Ben Bolch, Los Angeles Times, 29 Mar. 2024
• The blockbuster monster mash earned $8.5 million on Friday, down a steep 77% from its opening day a week ago.
  — J. Kim Murphy, Variety, 6 Apr. 2024
• One of the character’s most memorable looks in the blockbuster comedy is a white mink coat.
  — Zack Sharf, Variety, 15 Dec. 2023
• At first glance, a comedy based on a children’s toy and bathed in pink may not fit the mold for a blockbuster at a time when superhero movies reign.
  — Max Zahn, ABC News, 24 July 2023
• The series takes place in the universe that first debuted in 2001 with the launch of Xbox’s first Halo game, which went on to become a blockbuster franchise.
  — James Hibberd, The Hollywood Reporter, 11 Jan. 2024
• Over the years, Arnold Schwarzenegger has shown himself to be someone who wants his vehicles to be just as big as his blockbusters.
  — Bryan Hood, Robb Report, 19 Dec. 2023
• As a blockbuster film, Guardians 3 is showing in ScreenX in select locations.
  — Benny Har-Even, Forbes, 5 May 2023
• Whether the movie is a blockbuster or bomb, store discount racks could soon be inundated with the pink merchandise.
  — Megan Cerullo, CBS News, 21 July 2023
• From Taylor Swift’s Eras tour to ‘Barbie,’ women drive blockbusters.
  — Christi Carras, Los Angeles Times, 27 Aug. 2023
• Kira Yarmysh, his spokeswoman, noted that music from an Arnold Schwarzenegger blockbuster was played as his body was laid to rest.
  — Nathan Hodge, CNN, 1 Mar. 2024
• June is a month filled with potential blockbusters that could go some way towards redressing the box office gap with 2022.
  — Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 2 June 2023
• Many of the renegade directors self-destructed in a blaze of coke and ego, or joined the counter-revolution of the blockbuster eighties.
  — Michael Schulman, The New Yorker, 30 Oct. 2023
• While country music had a blockbuster year, the genre failed to earn top Grammy nominations.
  — Danielle Chemtob, Forbes, 13 Nov. 2023
• These are the powerhouses behind the wave of firings, lawsuits and blockbuster revelations that were a part of the #MeToo movement.
  — Petula Dvorak, Washington Post, 11 Sep. 2023
• The blockbuster has yet to receive a grade from audiences polled by CinemaScore.
  — Christi Carras, Los Angeles Times, 4 June 2023
• The 2011 blockbuster still stands as the peak of this franchise, the one that turned things up a notch by uniting all the stars from the disparate first four Fast & Furious films into a globe-trotting Avengers-like super-team.
  — Christian Holub, EW.com, 17 May 2023
• Whether Disney prevails on the First Amendment claim, the contract clause claim, both of them, or none at all, the case could be an interesting one—and maybe even its latest blockbuster.
  — Matt Ford, The New Republic, 28 Apr. 2023
• The team has faced a roster crunch while making blockbuster free-agent and trade acquisitions this offseason.
  — Houston Mitchell, Los Angeles Times, 12 Jan. 2024
• Looking at the state of the race post-nominations, the Universal Pictures’ blockbuster could make an even bigger impact.
  — Clayton Davis, Variety, 23 Jan. 2024
• On told analysts this week that the dollar’s weakness against its native Swiss franc is holding back blockbuster figures.
  — Byprarthana Prakash, Fortune, 16 Aug. 2023

Last Updated: 7 May 2024