How to Use fourth wall in a Sentence

fourth wall

noun

• The character is the first to break the fourth wall in the MCU.
  — Chris Smith, BGR, 29 Sep. 2021
• Not that this idea—breaking the fourth wall of the script—was new.
  — Wyatt Mason, Harper’s Magazine , 6 Jan. 2023
• Later the video breaks the fourth wall and the room is revealed to be a set.
  — Izzy Colón, SPIN, 23 Mar. 2022
• Trump stand-in, breaks the fourth wall near the end of the episode, calling on viewers to vote.
  — Rasha Ali, USA TODAY, 1 Oct. 2020
• Cast and crew alike are figuring out the rules of the new genre and the boundaries of the fourth wall.
  — James Poniewozik, New York Times, 5 Mar. 2021
• This manner of breaking down the fourth wall feels stale from the start.
  — New York Times, 14 Nov. 2019
• Hildy breaks the fourth wall, and tells the audience about the players.
  — Kate Aurthur, Variety, 10 Sep. 2021
• The characters here even break the fourth wall to chat with the viewer.
  — Lorraine Ali, latimes.com, 24 Mar. 2018
• The nicest thing about doing a show like this is there is no fourth wall.
  — Daniel Scheffler, SPIN, 1 Apr. 2024
• He was drawn to the irreverence—and to the nudge-nudge, wink-wink way the show seemed to break the fourth wall.
  — Abby Aguirre, Vogue, 15 Apr. 2019
• There is a moment in the video loop when a foot breaks the fourth wall, smashing a sheet of glass.
  — Charles Desmarais, San Francisco Chronicle, 7 June 2018
• What’s the point of breaking the fourth wall if there’s nothing on the other side?
  — Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 13 Aug. 2021
• Get ready for Lara Croft to go from tomb raider to fourth wall breaker.
  — Brendan Morrow, The Week, 27 Jan. 2023
• Whether this was planned or not, this kind of breaking of the fourth wall is good for an easy laugh.
  — Jason Zinoman, New York Times, 20 Jan. 2023
• My main beef with the humor came with the game's repeated need to break the fourth wall.
  — Sam MacHkovech, Ars Technica, 17 Nov. 2018
• That extra beat might have broken the fourth wall too much.
  — Matthew Jacobs, The Hollywood Reporter, 22 Dec. 2022
• And journalists are rarely granted the grace of breaking the fourth wall.
  — Marquita K. Harris, Glamour, 19 May 2021
• The fourth wall had been brought down, and there was no room for the voice behind the music to speak directly.
  — Tony M Fountain, Forbes, 13 Sep. 2021
• There was a kick to watching actors burst through the fourth wall, going meta.
  — New York Times, 10 Dec. 2020
• Winning Time batters the fourth wall to pieces in its opening scenes.
  — Kristen Baldwin, EW.com, 12 Mar. 2022
• The singer breaks down the fourth wall between him and the listener, and offers a brief glimpse of the smart-aleck Murphy of old.
  — Greg Kot, chicagotribune.com, 1 Sep. 2017
• All night the show flirts with breaking the fourth wall, full of wink-and-nod references to theater.
  — Hugh Hunter, Philly.com, 8 Feb. 2018
• Breaking the fourth wall [and] voice-over that shifts from first-person to omniscient was just part of the DNA of it.
  — Matt Brennan, chicagotribune.com, 1 July 2019
• Charlotte breaks the fourth wall solely at the start of our journey and then never again.
  — Courtney Howard, Variety, 16 Nov. 2023
• What was the philosophy behind when to break the fourth wall?
  — Brian Davids, The Hollywood Reporter, 11 Feb. 2020
• Chappelle breaks the fourth wall to call out his ridiculous costume.
  — Andy Hoglund, EW.com, 8 Nov. 2020
• Leah exclaims, breaking the fourth wall to make eye contact with the camera.
  — Ineye Komonibo, refinery29.com, 15 Dec. 2020
• Both are featured on the cover and are the only two creatures breaking the fourth wall.
  — Françoise Mouly, The New Yorker, 14 June 2021
• The Stage Manager is an all-knowing narrator who breaks the fourth wall to comment on the characters and their motivations, in the process telling a universal tale of love, loss and regret.
  — Anna Tingley, Variety, 20 Sep. 2024
• The new Wade is an endlessly wisecracking chatterbox, shattering the fourth wall with gleeful abandon.
  — Danny Horn, EW.com, 18 Aug. 2024

Last Updated: 19 Dec 2024