How to Use world-building in a Sentence

world-building

noun

• That kind of world-building appealed to him more than the story of this kid who becomes a god.
  — WIRED, 19 Sep. 2023
• That is the beauty of Barbie Land logic and world-building.
  — André-Naquian Wheeler, Vogue, 20 July 2023
• People certainly aren’t looking for the next Game of Thrones or the next world-building show.
  — Lacey Rose, The Hollywood Reporter, 30 Nov. 2023
• In this deep dive into world-building, we’re thrust 300 years into the future.
  — Randy Myers, The Mercury News, 25 Jan. 2024
• Billion-dollar world-building aside, The Rings of Power plods.
  — TIME, 7 Feb. 2024
• This Easter egg is Lynchian world-building at its best.
  — Max Evry, WIRED, 10 Jan. 2024
• The elaborate world-building and precinct plot yielded a timeless film that would be studied and enjoyed for decades to come.
  — Jordan Runtagh, Peoplemag, 31 Mar. 2024
• Like all world-building for the big screen, recreating the Bridgerton universe based on Julia Quinn’s novels is no small feat.
  — Rachel Silva, ELLE Decor, 8 Sep. 2023
• The visuals the group puts out—the single shot, world-building videos—are clearly a central part of their identity, but the music stands on its own as well.
  — Liam Hess, Vogue, 23 Oct. 2023
• Again, in between the firefights, there is also a lot of immersive world-building and bickering with a robot who has a heart of gold.
  — Adrienne So, WIRED, 30 Jan. 2024
• The books are epic in every sense of the word, from their incredible world-building to an extensive cast of characters.
  — Milan Polk, Men's Health, 28 Aug. 2023
• Despite this mild glitch, the Tokyo example is a mind-blowing exercise in world-building.
  — Steven Levy, WIRED, 15 Feb. 2024
• With a new Hellraiser reboot available to stream on Hulu, this is your chance to glory over the gloom, gore, and arch world-building of the original 1987 British horror film.
  — EW.com, 19 Dec. 2023
• Old-money aesthetic is not complete without the requisite world-building: the yacht, the Dom Pérignon, the Lake Como backdrop.
  — Sarah Spellings, Vogue, 12 Dec. 2023
• Will the fanboys go for all this elaborate world-building, inevitably leading to a deadly faceoff on the insurgents’ way home to Veldt?
  — David Rooney, The Hollywood Reporter, 15 Dec. 2023
• Moving on from the monograph, the next step for me in world-building was to develop specific spaces and attach a narrative to each one.
  — Alessia Glaviano, Vogue, 4 Jan. 2024
• Her world No longer tied to the adolescent narratives of her earlier career, Swift also had a new task at hand: world-building.
  — Raisa Bruner, TIME, 26 Oct. 2023
• Layered and vivid, world-building was the key to its magnetism, and that's what originally captivated me.
  — Jason Parham, WIRED, 31 Aug. 2023
• Since its release, the film has been heralded for its feminist message and its creative world-building.
  — Carlos De Loera, Los Angeles Times, 7 Aug. 2023
• The books, in which Earth is faced with an alien invasion, told an epic, high-stakes story with intricate world-building, time-jumping and powerful themes.
  — Wendy Lee, Los Angeles Times, 21 Mar. 2024
• As overwrought as the phrase is becoming, cutting through today’s DSP congestion is a matter of world-building.
  — Andre Gee, Rolling Stone, 30 June 2023
• Looks to be an interesting stew of cowboy action, robot mayhem, and kooky world-building.
  — Vogue, 21 Mar. 2024
• While the detail and world-building of the 2021 Dune definitely benefited from a longer runtime, there’s no denying that Denis Villeneuve’s film just kind of … ends.
  — Vulture, 14 June 2023
• As more and more of these films become cogs in a multiverse, their imaginative appeal tends to get trampled by the dictates of corporate world-building.
  — Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 16 Aug. 2023
• The protagonists and namesake of the half-hour series on FX were thousands of miles from home, a testament to the flexible, expansive world-building of co-creator Sterlin Harjo and his team.
  — Alison Herman, Variety, 1 Aug. 2023
• China Miéville is a genius of speculative fiction whose quirky world-building always delights me.
  — New York Times, 30 Nov. 2023
• With [Ninja Turtles], for example, the idea of teenagers wanting to be accepted and feel normal could not resonate with me more and feel more basic and simple, but at the same time is a great jumping-off point for insane world-building.
  — Carolyn Giardina, The Hollywood Reporter, 12 Jan. 2024
• For the past few years, Aster has gained a cult following for his exacting, imaginatively audacious world-building.
  — Ann Hornaday, Washington Post, 19 Apr. 2023
• The power of science fiction and alternative world-building also runs through multiple shows.
  — Jori Finkel, New York Times, 10 May 2023
• After all, such stories are liable to lose their ideal balance of narrative drive, character development and world-building in the translation from page to screen.
  — Los Angeles Times Staff, Los Angeles Times, 1 Mar. 2024

Last Updated: 27 Jun 2024