How to Use script in a Sentence

script

1 of 2 noun
  • Joel wrote the script with a lot of the actors in mind, right?
    Tyler Coates, The Hollywood Reporter, 17 Aug. 2023
  • In this instance, the duo was brought on to write new drafts of a spec script.
    Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 31 Mar. 2024
  • Lee wrote the new film’s script with Alan Fox, the playwright of 2019’s Safe Space.
    Jazz Monroe, Pitchfork, 11 Apr. 2024
  • Has there been a lot of secrecy around the script or changes to the plot?
    Chris Gardner, The Hollywood Reporter, 12 June 2023
  • But a good actor in the Falstaff role can make up for the script’s deficits.
    Pam Kragen, San Diego Union-Tribune, 8 Aug. 2023
  • Ezra Miller even worked on their own treatment of a script.
    Lindsey Bahr, Fortune, 8 June 2023
  • Near the center, in a larger script, was Shigeyoshi’s name.
    Daniel Wu, Washington Post, 4 Aug. 2023
  • Smigel co-wrote the script along with Sandler and Paul Sado.
    Valerie Wu, Variety, 12 Oct. 2023
  • And it was all wrapped up in this crazy script that just landed in my inbox.
    Margy Rochlin, Los Angeles Times, 29 Nov. 2023
  • Within a couple of months, a new outfit had opened up with the same call scripts.
    Inkoo Kang, The New Yorker, 4 Sep. 2023
  • And so DeBose opened the show in her dressing room, closing a binder of blank script pages.
    Michael Schulman, The New Yorker, 12 June 2023
  • And good thing, since the script is at once too slight and overly confusing.
    Peter Debruge, Variety, 12 June 2023
  • But back to that Craigslist ad, the catalyst for the script by Stupnitsky and John Phillips.
    Odie Henderson, BostonGlobe.com, 22 June 2023
  • Justin Piasecki wrote the script, much of which is being kept in the stable.
    Borys Kit, The Hollywood Reporter, 12 Apr. 2024
  • Anderson pays homage by sticking to the script word for word.
    David Fear, Rolling Stone, 28 Sep. 2023
  • The scripts touch on all sorts of systemic forces, from the workers left out of the New Deal to the macroeconomics of the decline of the middle class.
    Robin Kaiser-Schatzlein, New York Times, 13 June 2023
  • Big Ten football: Team-by-team previews ] This season, Allen wants and needs to change the script.
    Michael Marot, Chicago Tribune, 1 Sep. 2023
  • Gluck re-worked the script before taking on the role of director.
    Melissa Locker, TIME, 23 Apr. 2024
  • The unknown Kushan script was found in the 1950s, but only understood this year.
    Tim Newcomb, Popular Mechanics, 14 July 2023
  • Oregon’s defense flipped the script on the offense in the team’s second scrimmage of fall camp.
    oregonlive, 19 Aug. 2023
  • Pine co-wrote the script with Ian Gotler and stars in the title role as goofy Darren Barrenman, a.k.a.
    Katie Walsh, Los Angeles Times, 9 May 2024
  • But most scripts coming out of the lab are now gathering dust in a drawer.
    John Hopewell, Variety, 8 Mar. 2024
  • The winning script will be announced at Blood Window on Dec. 1.
    John Hopewell, Variety, 17 Nov. 2023
  • That’s not the case here, thanks to David West Read’s clever script, which finds a flexible frame for the neo-Shakespearean fun and games.
    Charles McNulty, Los Angeles Times, 11 June 2023
  • There’s the script, and there’s the story, but there’s also a lot of room for improvisation along the way.
    Evan Romano, Men's Health, 14 July 2023
  • But the genesis of the script goes back to several years before.
    Nick Vivarelli, Variety, 15 Sep. 2023
  • In the first photo, the friends held hands around a table full of food, while the second pic was a shot of the script for the final episode of the long running series.
    Janine Henni, Peoplemag, 17 Aug. 2023
  • But Nicholaw said the show still wasn’t working after Toronto, so about a third of the script was scrapped, scenes were moved around and songs were rewritten.
    Pam Kragen, San Diego Union-Tribune, 29 Mar. 2024
  • Harold Pinter wrote a script that Joseph Losey was supposed to direct, but nothing came of it.
    Christine Smallwood, The New York Review of Books, 18 Jan. 2024
  • The short clip finds Thing hauling a wheelbarrow full of scripts down a long hallway and dishing them out to the show’s returning and new cast members.
    Jon Blistein, Rolling Stone, 7 May 2024
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script

2 of 2 verb
  • I scripted three episodes of the show.
  • The trip didn't go as scripted.
  • The discussion couldn't have gone better if we had scripted it.
  • All carry sheets with plays the three of them helped script the night before.
    Jim McBride, BostonGlobe.com, 1 Aug. 2022
  • Their journey is not scripted, nor is it filmed around the clock.
    Vulture, 7 Oct. 2023
  • What a start The Wings hardly could have scripted a much better start on the road against the best team in hockey.
    Helene St. James, Detroit Free Press, 11 Mar. 2023
  • Mabu asks in a fake innocent voice, as if this isn’t all scripted.
    Alphonse Pierre, Pitchfork, 12 Jan. 2024
  • Hawke stepped forth to give what must have been scripted show-closing remarks.
    Thom Duffy, Billboard, 30 Apr. 2023
  • Shryock says these types of calls are structured but not scripted.
    Meg Anderson, NPR, 5 Apr. 2024
  • Last year, a record 599 original scripted shows aired in the United States.
    Stephen Humphries, The Christian Science Monitor, 5 May 2023
  • Whereas the final Met Gala gown was scripted, Carrie’s first-choice dress wasn’t set in stone.
    Emma Fraser, ELLE, 23 June 2023
  • Julie, Reince is clearly right that Donald Trump-ship (ph) would be happy with the way this is scripting out.
    ABC News, 3 Dec. 2023
  • If a strike lasts through the summer, fall schedules for scripted shows and films could be upended.
    Irina Ivanova, CBS News, 2 May 2023
  • You’re involved with a wide variety of projects, not just scripted.
    Brian Davids, The Hollywood Reporter, 1 Sep. 2023
  • Quinta Brunson is ready to script her own narrative in the beauty sphere.
    Michelle Lee, PEOPLE.com, 1 Aug. 2022
  • And after only seven drafts of the outline, you are finally sent off to script.
    Anonymous, The Hollywood Reporter, 2 June 2023
  • While the frog hybrid was scripted, the other animals weren’t.
    Jazz Tangcay, Variety, 18 Aug. 2023
  • But as participants pointed out in the chat, the entire event came across as scripted.
    Cassie Werber, Quartz, 24 Apr. 2023
  • The proviso, though, was that there would be no material scripted for the event.
    Peter Marks, Washington Post, 8 June 2023
  • Starting each half with a touchdown-scoring drive showed that the offensive staff came in with a solid game plan of how to script the opening drives.
    David Furones, sun-sentinel.com, 13 Sep. 2021
  • Curry scripts a catchy hook anchored by paranoia, rapping about sleeping with a Glock by his bed.
    Carl Lamarre, Billboard, 18 Sep. 2023
  • To my knowledge, among Latter-day Saints, the business of being and acting holy is not scripted out in detail.
    Gordon Monson, The Salt Lake Tribune, 25 Aug. 2023
  • And yet, the Oscars presents a big opportunity to script the ending of this memorable chapter for the movies.
    John Jurgensen, WSJ, 21 Apr. 2021
  • Hollywood is running out of time to script a happy ending.
    Joe Flint, wsj.com, 30 Apr. 2023
  • This is a biographical tribute scripted and sung by Lisa Rock, who is backed by a six-piece band.
    Christopher Arnott, Hartford Courant, 14 Jan. 2024
  • That house was most like the Poe original house, in that it was scripted as a 1950s, suburban home, and his mom has very little money.
    Abbey White, The Hollywood Reporter, 21 Oct. 2023
  • With the exit from scripted, what remained of Spectrum’s original roster was left to find a new home.
    Lesley Goldberg, The Hollywood Reporter, 20 Sep. 2023
  • The dual Hollywood strikes wiped out much of the scripted programming this fall on the linear networks.
    Michael Schneider, Variety, 29 Dec. 2023
  • Amy Israel, the head of scripted at Showtime, is stepping down, Variety has learned.
    Joe Otterson, Variety, 28 Sep. 2023
  • But a few networks were experimenting with scripted shows that were subversive and formally inventive.
    Meredith Blake, Los Angeles Times, 7 Apr. 2024

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