How to Use airtime in a Sentence
airtime
noun- The committee plans to buy radio airtime for the campaign ads.
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In the 52 hours over five days that the trio would hold court at that desk, there had been plenty of hot takes to fill the airtime.
— Katherine Rosman, New York Times, 13 Nov. 2020 -
The event will grant Trump precious airtime in the crunch before Nov. 3.
— Katherine Doyle, Washington Examiner, 20 Oct. 2020 -
Unique ideas regarding your beliefs could get some airtime, possibly reaching a broad audience.
— Tarot Astrologers, chicagotribune.com, 6 Dec. 2020 -
Emma didn’t hold back in her assessment of Nicole’s motives, suggesting that these accusations were merely a ploy for airtime.
— Jenzia Burgos, StyleCaster, 14 Sep. 2024 -
The ride will also include 12 airtime moments, that glorious free-floating sensation that coaster fans crave.
— Arthur Levine, USA TODAY, 12 Nov. 2020 -
Best of all is the airtime going through the second hill.
— Dewayne Bevil, orlandosentinel.com, 2 May 2021 -
This trait of ‘equal airtime’ is one of the is one of the hallmarks of high performing teams.
— Alain Hunkins, Forbes, 21 Feb. 2024 -
That’s a lot of airtime to fill, no matter how compelling the event might be.
— Rob Salkowitz, Forbes, 28 June 2021 -
The group didn’t show up in a search of broadcast airtime by the ad-tracking firm AdImpact.
— Isaac Arnsdorf, ProPublica, 21 May 2021 -
Fruits and vegetables get a lot of airtime this time of year, and for good reason.
— Anna Luisa Rodriguez, Washington Post, 7 June 2023 -
Our bush plane pilot, an old-timer with decades of airtime, gave us the safety speech.
— Lauren Mowery, Forbes, 5 July 2022 -
The past few seasons have been dragged down by non-issues stretched out over a dozen episodes to fill airtime.
— Louis Peitzman, Vulture, 7 Sep. 2021 -
The letter led to Fox’s decision to devote airtime to fact check the claims.
— Los Angeles Times, 24 Dec. 2020 -
Josh Hawley and Ted Cruz may struggle for airtime for quite a while.
— Alex Shephard, The New Republic, 12 Jan. 2021 -
This story has been corrected to say the show's airtime is 12:37 a.m.
— Lynn Elber, Chron, 29 Apr. 2022 -
Many of these right-wing outlets have given airtime to false claims about the 2020 election.
— Katelyn Polantz and Marshall Cohen, CNN, 24 Apr. 2021 -
The same reporters who laughed at my jokes would continue to give him airtime.
— Darryl Pinckney, The New York Review of Books, 25 Mar. 2021 -
Super Bowl airtime at the start of his performance in 1993.
— Troy L. Smith, cleveland, 23 Apr. 2021 -
The group has already reserved close to $3 million in TV airtime ahead of the April 1 budget deadline.
— Nicholas Fandos, New York Times, 21 Mar. 2023 -
How much money is two years of interest and airtime worth to the Cowboys?
— David Moore, Dallas News, 13 Mar. 2021 -
With high views come high prices, and just 30 seconds of airtime in this year’s Super Bowl cost $7 million.
— Sergii Denysenko, Forbes, 29 Mar. 2024 -
This prompts leaders to pause and give airtime to dissenting views.
— Alex Edmans, TIME, 17 June 2024 -
Good lord, the airtime given to the Gardner Minshew story line tonight.
— Dallas News, 8 Jan. 2022 -
As big tech companies have seized their own airtime during the last decade, the power of CES’s main stage has waned.
— Verge Staff, The Verge, 16 Jan. 2021 -
With protest songs unable to gain airtime, artists must stick to social media.
— John Arterbury, Rolling Stone, 17 Mar. 2022 -
So that is a lot of airtime, and Winfrey is a skilled interviewer.
— Washington Post, 5 Mar. 2021 -
But, at the time, if a prepaid cellphone owner did not have any airtime, the call could not be completed.
— Toby Shapshak, Forbes, 26 Feb. 2024 -
Barrack was available to fill airtime, and that was plenty.
— Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 21 July 2021 -
The bottom line: The gubernatorial race is just one of many that will be fighting for airtime over the next two months.
— Arika Herron, Axios, 6 Sep. 2024
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