How to Use cinema in a Sentence

cinema

noun
  • We drove by the cinema to see what was playing.
  • So, there were lots of people who'd worked on the movie who came to see the film in the cinema.
    Chelsey Sanchez, Harper's BAZAAR, 23 Dec. 2022
  • The square has four cinemas and a theater auditorium with 800 seats.
    Georg Szalai, The Hollywood Reporter, 4 Dec. 2024
  • When the topic turned to the state of cinema, Villeneuve revealed a glimmer of the same optimism that propels him to spend so much time making films about the future.
    Christian Zilko, IndieWire, 3 Dec. 2024
  • The famous director is unmatched in his ability to make what might otherwise feel too mushy gushy and turn it into some of the most genuinely affecting cinema ever put on screen.
    ELLE, 22 Dec. 2022
  • Yet Urdu has remained the key language of romantic expression in the songs and cinema that saturate Indian life.
    Mujib Mashal Saumya Khandelwal, New York Times, 18 Dec. 2022
  • Part of that change has been due to the power of cinema.
    John Bleasdale, Variety, 3 Feb. 2023
  • Have your picks in place for the busy fall movie season at the cinema?
    Brian Truitt, USA TODAY, 20 Sep. 2024
  • At the end of the 1920s, with the advent of talkies, many filmmakers and actors spoke of the death of cinema.
    Los Angeles Times, 18 Jan. 2023
  • In these films, the story of the greatness of cinema is the story of how the sausage is made and served, and even how the pig was raised.
    Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 5 Jan. 2023
  • Eight years later, Sorelle is now a rising star in the world of cinema.
    C. Isaiah Smalls Ii, Miami Herald, 8 May 2024
  • Every time a new film came out, my mum would take me and my sister to the cinema at the weekend.
    Tish Weinstock, Vogue, 17 Aug. 2023
  • Many art-house cinemas have come and gone in that time, but Film Forum has thrived.
    Alexandra Schwartz, The New Yorker, 7 Sep. 2023
  • There are few things as tried and true in cinema as the tragic tale of the price of fame (see: four versions of A Star Is Born).
    Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 16 May 2024
  • It is also equipped with a Jacuzzi, a lounge, an outdoor cinema, and a bar.
    Rachel Cormack, Robb Report, 27 Oct. 2023
  • The standard set up and pay-off from mainstream cinema is nowhere to be found.
    Scott Phillips, Forbes, 21 Apr. 2023
  • So that era of cinema with all of these beasties and things was due for a moment back in the spotlight.
    Brian Davids, The Hollywood Reporter, 8 Feb. 2024
  • The cinema was full and everyone was crying at the end.
    Marta Balaga, Variety, 10 Apr. 2024
  • It is being awarded in the same cinema, the Kursaal, where Erice saw his first film.
    Liza Foreman, Variety, 29 Sep. 2023
  • And the greatest of all these — one of the great strange miracles in the history of cinema — is No Face.
    Sam Anderson, New York Times, 14 Feb. 2023
  • Abang Adik was among the surprise packets to emerge from Southeast Asian cinema over the past 12 months.
    Mathew Scott, The Hollywood Reporter, 12 Mar. 2024
  • The next installment in the Scream franchise is due out March 10 in cinemas.
    Lars Brandle, Billboard, 3 Mar. 2023
  • That’s not the Native woman that you’re used to seeing in cinema.
    Michael Schulman, The New Yorker, 4 Feb. 2024
  • That then, leads me to that perennial discussion – what’s the best place to sit in a cinema?
    Benny Har-Even, Forbes, 26 Mar. 2023
  • There is also lounge seating for cozy evenings in front of the outdoor cinema.
    Julia Zaltzman, Robb Report, 12 Jan. 2024
  • The Marvel world and a lot of the cinema that’s going on, those worlds are so plastic and so CGI, and anything can happen.
    Emily Zemler, Rolling Stone, 27 May 2023
  • The Spirit of the Beehive (1973) is one of Spanish cinema’s most beloved treasures.
    Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 25 May 2023
  • The best montages in cinema have been montages that tell the story and move the story forward.
    Tracy Brown, Los Angeles Times, 6 Aug. 2024
  • The Golden Raspberry Awards (the formal name for the Razzies) celebrate the best of the worst in cinema.
    Cnn.com Wire Service, The Mercury News, 22 Jan. 2024
  • But instead of at the cinema, you could be treated to this lantern every day in your own backyard.
    Madison Yauger, Peoplemag, 20 June 2023

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