How to Use cinematic in a Sentence

cinematic

adjective
  • And the video of the Satellite wreck was cinematic, Gates said.
    Lauren McCarthy, BostonGlobe.com, 15 July 2023
  • The cinematic love affair has extended to the rest of the province of Almería, too.
    Tony Perrottet, Smithsonian Magazine, 30 Aug. 2023
  • But while the film is a cinematic time capsule of sorts, its core themes still feel urgent.
    Bianca Betancourt, Harper's BAZAAR, 18 May 2023
  • The album is about the process of realizing the truth hidden in lies on the theme of a dystopian world in a cinematic form.
    Jeff Benjamin, Billboard, 8 June 2023
  • But the cinematic tale didn’t get his story quite right.
    Abigail Gruskin, Baltimore Sun, 8 Aug. 2023
  • The cinematic clip features Young Metro and Pluto draped in white suits while walking around a dark room.
    Michael Saponara, Billboard, 4 Apr. 2024
  • The cinematic form is like a second native language to him.
    Heide Janssen, Orange County Register, 17 Mar. 2024
  • Something that’s cinematic and large and sweeping and all of that, but authentic to it.
    Yvonne Villarreal, Los Angeles Times, 11 Jan. 2024
  • The video plays off his the cinematic texture of Madeon’s acclaimed Good Faith Forever live shows.
    Katie Bain, Billboard, 23 June 2023
  • Kendall Outing has a cinematic dream: to one day see his name up in lights in Hollywood and beyond.
    Donna Owens, Baltimore Sun, 17 May 2023
  • Dau reflected the kind of grand-scale cinematic vision that Fridman and the board hoped would energize the Babyn Yar project.
    Joshua Hammer, Smithsonian Magazine, 29 Nov. 2023
  • As a student of film history, Payne knows well the up-and-down cycles of cinematic careers.
    Kenneth Turan, Los Angeles Times, 26 Oct. 2023
  • The result is a cinematic image and colors that look like they were processed by a $1,000 camera.
    Popular Mechanics, 29 Aug. 2023
  • The talented actors were given lots of cinematic scenery on which to chew.
    Christopher Knight, Los Angeles Times, 17 Apr. 2024
  • But, the film is also a cinematic masterpiece and remains the highest grossing movie of all time.
    Kellie Benz, Country Living, 6 June 2023
  • That whole filmmaking process and that language of cinematic storytelling, all of that stuff was ready and ripe.
    Kevin Baxter, Los Angeles Times, 28 Nov. 2023
  • Their cinematic world is as askew as the actual world often feels.
    Niela Orr, New York Times, 14 Feb. 2024
  • Av Westin, a producer who worked with her at the start of her career and at its peak, described her restless drive to me in words that were cinematic.
    Susan Page, USA TODAY, 11 Apr. 2024
  • The Franchise shines a light on the secret chaos inside the world of superhero moviemaking, to ask the question — how exactly does the cinematic sausage get made?
    James Hibberd, The Hollywood Reporter, 9 Aug. 2023
  • Hemsworth said joining Miller’s cinematic universe was a dream come true.
    Jack Smart, Peoplemag, 10 Apr. 2024
  • But when it is featured on the big screen, the city makes a powerful impression as these eight cinematic moments from the past 40 years demonstrate.
    Julie Hinds, Detroit Free Press, 19 Aug. 2023
  • His pictures speak in a cinematic voice that is uniquely and completely his own.
    Mark Olsen, Los Angeles Times, 5 Apr. 2024
  • And in this formulaic fantasy, there’s a nod to the cinematic past.
    Michael O'Sullivan, Washington Post, 10 Jan. 2024
  • The 1997 film was a complete work in itself, with few plot threads left dangling and no cinematic universe necessary.
    Angie Han, The Hollywood Reporter, 13 June 2023
  • The company has hyped the X-Men (and the soon-to-appear Fantastic Four) as leaders of a new era for the firm’s cinematic and animated future.
    Herb Scribner, Washington Post, 4 Apr. 2024
  • It’s fitted with state-of-the-art stereo sound by Focal & Naim to bring a cinematic quality to films and sports, enhanced by acoustic leather wallpaper.
    Julia Zaltzman, Robb Report, 3 Nov. 2023
  • The company demoed the Vision Pro being used to watch cinematic videos in full surround at home, or to conduct FaceTime calls at work.
    Michael Kan, PCMAG, 5 June 2023
  • That’s a marked departure from last year, when every title in the top 10 was a sequel, reboot or part of a larger cinematic universe.
    J. Clara Chan, Los Angeles Times, 21 Dec. 2023
  • One thing that stays constant within the Cruel Summer cinematic universe, though, is the shocking secrets and mysteries that keep us all on the edge of our seats.
    Samantha Olson, Seventeen, 12 June 2023
  • Gone were the fiery, complex ways men related to women in their own stories, exiling the sexes to their own cinematic worlds.
    Angelica Jade Bastién, Vulture, 7 Feb. 2024

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