How to Use blockbuster in a Sentence

blockbuster

noun
  • Wage growth cooling Stock futures fell on the blockbuster figures.
    Irina Ivanova, CBS News, 3 Feb. 2023
  • Below are some of the best movies on Hulu, including the streamer’s own films, blockbuster hits, and cult favorites.
    Aimée Lutkin, ELLE, 1 Feb. 2023
  • Though Bad Bunny set the bar high, the night featured plenty of other blockbuster performances.
    Jon Blistein, Rolling Stone, 6 Feb. 2023
  • Still, as the world adapts to the fact that Covid is not going away, Pfizer is going to try to find new blockbuster medications.
    Paul R. La Monica, CNN, 31 Jan. 2023
  • Even as some health insurers balk at covering the drugs for weight loss, the blockbuster category has been lucrative for drug companies.
    Ken Alltucker, USA TODAY, 24 Oct. 2024
  • Will this blockbuster ignite a flurry of activity and change the pessimistic feeling surrounding the current trade market?
    Chris Fedor, cleveland, 6 Feb. 2023
  • With blockbuster titles costing millions of dollars, publishers have become more risk-averse, and one of the reliable ways to make a hit is bringing back a successful idea.
    Gieson Cacho, The Mercury News, 23 Oct. 2024
  • The blockbuster technology deal that every adviser on Wall Street clamored to be a part of has proved not to have been so lucrative for at least one advisory firm that worked on it.
    Lauren Hirsch, BostonGlobe.com, 4 Feb. 2023
  • 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 city might have been home to the only blockbusters shot in Alabama.
    John Sharp | , al, 27 Mar. 2023
  • The New Year’s weekend box office this year lacked a true blockbuster.
    Jake Coyle, Fortune, 31 Dec. 2023
  • But a blockbuster race for control of the Supreme Court has begun to reverse that trend.
    David Sivak, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 8 Sep. 2024
  • Guests aren’t always the A-listers with blockbuster TV shows or films to promote.
    Mark Kennedy, BostonGlobe.com, 16 Sep. 2023
  • The ruling may not have been quite the blockbuster that either side wanted.
    Will Oremus, Washington Post, 2 July 2024
  • Three centuries later, the blockbuster is still in print.
    Sean Kingsley, Smithsonian Magazine, 15 May 2024
  • 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
  • Michelle Yeoh Michelle Yeoh is an actress known for her work in a number of blockbusters over four decades.
    Joey Garrison, USA TODAY, 3 May 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
  • The Marvels is a sequel to the 2019 blockbuster Captain Marvel.
    The Verge, 18 Apr. 2024
  • 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
  • Shipp, who starred in the 2023 blockbuster hit Barbie, has been know to wear natural hairstyles on the red carpet.
    Catherine Santino, Peoplemag, 14 Aug. 2024
  • During the offseason, the Sky sent away their leading scorer as part of a blockbuster trade to net the No. 3 overall draft pick.
    Becky Sullivan, NPR, 14 May 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

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