How to Use infomercial in a Sentence

infomercial

noun

• Not to sound like a late-night infomercial, but that’s not all.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 24 Mar. 2021
• The show was framed as news, but sounded to me more like an hour-long infomercial.
  — Lisa Shah, STAT, 28 Mar. 2024
• Push the bar, monkey, and get an infomercial on satori!
  — Ty Burr, BostonGlobe.com, 8 Mar. 2018
• But this one should have been pushed back to 1 a.m., buried in infomercials where nobody would have seen it.
  — Ken Goe, OregonLive.com, 14 Oct. 2017
• But, just like on a late night infomercial, this deal gets even better.
  — Richard Mann, Outdoor Life, 17 Sep. 2019
• At first glance, the Stealth Core Trainer might remind you of a piece of workout gear from a late-night infomercial.
  — Sarah Klein, Health.com, 31 Jan. 2018
• The stealthy infomercials of YouTube are not the same as those that take over cable channels when programming ends for the night.
  — Abby Ohlheiser, Washington Post, 23 Aug. 2019
• In the famous infomercial, Mr. Swift saws an aluminum boat in half and puts it back together with Flex Tape.
  — Joe Cermele, Outdoor Life, 31 May 2023
• An infomercial for the Bath Buddy and a trailer for the album are posted on the Nightflight video platform nightflightplus.com.
  — Will Coviello, NOLA.com, 12 Oct. 2020
• He was brought in to turn around the purveyor of infomercials that were once a staple of cable TV—no easy feat in the age of streamers and social video.
  — Paolo Confino, Fortune, 5 June 2023
• If anything, the number seems low given that, over the course of nearly a year, Trudeau’s Weight Loss Cure infomercial sold thousands of books each day for many months.
  — Phil Plait, Discover Magazine, 18 Dec. 2011
• Looking to escape his misery for a moment, Phelps sees an infomercial on the screen for incense and orders a box.
  — Nerisha Penrose, Billboard, 29 Mar. 2018
• The top entry, a site called All Business Network, was accused of being a stealth infomercial.
  — Ian Bogost, The Atlantic, 25 Mar. 2024
• Horse auctions compete with the blare of product demos, sweepstakes, and endless loops of infomercials.
  — Lucas Graves, WIRED, 1 Feb. 2006
• This one’s a prequel to Mr. Bay’s 2007 rock-em-sock-em epic, which doubled as perhaps the world’s most expensive toy infomercial.
  — Kyle Smith, WSJ, 8 June 2023
• The broadcast, at times, was a UConn basketball infomercial.
  — Chad Finn, BostonGlobe.com, 24 June 2023
• As with every one of these streaming infomercials, rumors and leaks have already spilled the beans on what’s likely to be announced.
  — Boone Ashworth, WIRED, 11 Sep. 2023
• The actress was also known for her 1990s infomercials for the ThighMaster exercise equipment, which was meant to be placed between one’s knees and squeezed to tone the thighs.
  — Hilary Lewis, The Hollywood Reporter, 15 Oct. 2023
• Body of Your Dreams deconstructs an infomercial about some sort of waist-slimming device.
  — David Patrick Stearns, Philly.com, 14 Sep. 2017
• Santa appears and tells the gang that if a winner is not determined, an infomercial will air instead.
  — Steve Smith, Hartford Courant, 1 Dec. 2022
• Another was an infomercial for a miniature staircase that people can put next to their ears at night, so that their dreams can come out and dance, to prevent headaches.
  — Michael Schulman, The New Yorker, 21 Dec. 2020
• Online stores have adopted tricks used by infomercials and home shopping networks for years.
  — CBS News, 23 Jan. 2020
• Kardashian even poked fun at her lingerie brand Skims, with an infomercial for a figure-slimming line for dogs.
  — Quinci Legardye, Harper's BAZAAR, 10 Oct. 2021
• The campaign features four print images, a closeup on each of four models, as well as a video inspired by eighties infomercials.
  — Glamour, 6 May 2019
• Green Bay Packers The old school infomercial brought nostalgia.
  — Jordan Mendoza, USA TODAY, 12 May 2023
• Making the infomercial so compelling that the networks want to keep it on the air is precisely what convention planners are aiming for.
  — Doyle McManus Los Angeles Times (tns), Star Tribune, 13 Aug. 2020
• Indeed, Fox Nation on Wednesday unveiled a new series led by Miller that looks at infomercials.
  — Brian Steinberg, Variety, 10 Jan. 2024
• But just like every infomercial on television, wait there’s more.
  — Neil Senturia, San Diego Union-Tribune, 24 May 2021
• Shopping has long been part of this experience (think: infomercials of the early 2000s or QVC-style shopping programs).
  — Mia Sato, The Verge, 5 Apr. 2024
• For instance, one skit masqueraded as an infomercial for a night terror neck brace.
  — Diane Bell Columnist, San Diego Union-Tribune, 9 Nov. 2020

Last Updated: 3 Nov 2024