the movies

plural noun

chiefly US

: a showing of a movie in a theater

We are going to the movies tonight.

also : a movie theater

What's (playing/showing) at the movies?

: the business of making movies : the film industry

He wants to work in the movies.

Examples of the movies in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web That mission, of course, runs parallel to Erice’s own—to discover if, more than half a century after his first feature, the movies still have a place for him. —

Justin Chang, The New Yorker, 16 Aug. 2024 Think of a routine like basic training as depicted in the movies: Marching, running, calisthenics, shining shoes, shaving heads. —

Stacey Barchenger, The Arizona Republic, 3 Aug. 2024 With heady ideas jockeying with creatively lo-fi visual effects, the movies in this series all deserve to be seen in a theater. —

Mark Olsen, Los Angeles Times, 2 Aug. 2024 While on set, the two worked closely together, given the intimate nature of the movies, and Chu notes that the popstar had a change in attitude while in production for the second one. —

Raven Brunner, Peoplemag, 23 July 2024 See all Example Sentences for the movies

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