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.
  • Kodzis pulled a bottle out of their jacket, took out a pill and swallowed it in front of the audience.
    Ariel Castillo, Dallas News, 20 Apr. 2023
  • The audience will see the finalists compete to see who earns a spot in the final five.
    Marianne Garvey, CNN, 2 May 2023
  • The story unfolds on many flat surfaces surrounding the audience, who stand or sit on benches.
    Dewayne Bevil, Orlando Sentinel, 21 Apr. 2023
  • Before the show even begins, you’re seated alone on stage in costume on the turntable, staring silently at the audience.
    Caitlin Huston, The Hollywood Reporter, 2 May 2023
  • But audiences, the last answer to your question, by the way, is that audiences are ever more demanding.
    Mike Fleming Jr, Deadline, 7 Sep. 2024
  • With eight episodes in the first season, the show will be a quick watch (unless Hulu decides the audience will watch a second season).
    Milan Polk, Men's Health, 28 Apr. 2023
  • By the time the doors open at 2 p.m. for the show, Fischer is in her polyester usher uniform, helping audience members to their seats.
    Gina Ryder, Los Angeles Times, 19 Sep. 2024
  • The audience sat in chairs on one side of the bridge, while models walked in the center and South Korea as the backdrop to the collection.
    Justin Ray, Robb Report, 1 May 2023
  • When the audience understandably milled about wondering what that line could possibly have been, Reynolds balked.
    Dan Heching, CNN, 19 Sep. 2024
  • The lack of detail has made this tragedy frustrating but also all the more captivating for that initial national audience.
    Kyle Whitmire, al, 19 Apr. 2023
  • Ball hopes such collaborations will encourage new audiences to see and hear classical music live.
    Lucy Handley, CNBC, 19 Sep. 2024
  • Broadcast networks still commanded colossal audiences, and cable channels were still growing.
    Brooks Barnes, BostonGlobe.com, 1 May 2023
  • When bass-baritone Samuel Youn eventually escorted her onto the stage, the audience responded with boos.
    Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 19 Sep. 2024
  • However, instead of subtly infusing these plot points, Murphy and Brennan insist on clobbering the audience over the head with these facts.
    Aramide Tinubu, Variety, 19 Sep. 2024
  • Despite the seemingly pure intentions, these may be a reductionist view that serves only AI tinkerers and the audience.
    Ananya Bhattacharya, Quartz, 20 Apr. 2023
  • 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
  • In 1977, audiences watched the couple seem to fall in love live on the show.
    Sara Sidner, CNN, 19 Aug. 2024
  • 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 way the echo affected how the audience took in his jokes.
    David Remnick, The New Yorker, 28 Apr. 2024
  • The audience gave a wild ovation, but the band demurred.
    Evan Minsker, Pitchfork, 26 Oct. 2023
  • The audience always loves the sneak peeks for the biggest movies that are about to be released.
    Michael Schneider, Variety, 4 May 2023
  • The show’s first reunion episode brought in the highest audience in over two years for the series.
    Jackie Strause, The Hollywood Reporter, 19 Aug. 2024
  • When the band had run through eight or nine Killers songs, the audience applauded.
    Patrick Radden Keefe, The New Yorker, 25 Dec. 2023
  • Collins will be the youngest prime time host in cable news, where the median age of the audience is over 64.
    Stephen Battaglio, Los Angeles Times, 17 May 2023
  • Here are six actors bound to have audiences buzzing this summer at the movies.
    Lindsey Bahr, ajc, 3 May 2023

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