MOVIE in a Sentence

Learn MOVIE from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.

168 example sentences for MOVIE, such as:

1. We have both seen the movie.
2. A regular theater, just for movies.
3. We missed the beginning of the movie.
4. There's the hay, let alone the movies.
5. The movie bombed out at the box office.

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 Meanings and Examples of MOVIE
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
movie
 n.  a recording of moving images that tells a story and that people watch on a screen
Classic Sentence:
1  A regular theater, just for movies.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IV
2  He shone at her like a dim blue March moon, and sighed, "No, but I do love the movies."
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER V
3  I don't know but what you can elocute just as good as Ella Stowbody, she banged the book and suggested that they were not too late for the nine o'clock show at the movies.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER X
4  The movies were almost as vital to Kennicott and the other solid citizens of Gopher Prairie as land-speculation and guns and automobiles.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVI
5  The second evening after the movies she impulsively summoned Vida Sherwin and Guy to the house for pop-corn and cider.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVI
6  Ray and she had stopped in at Dyer's for a hot chocolate on their way home from the movies, that March evening.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXI
7  Take Carrie to the movies, and forget Maud.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXV
8  They talked of the library, of the movies.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXX
9  Let's all go to the movies tomorrow night.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXIX
10  Tom and Daisy stared, with that peculiarly unreal feeling that accompanies the recognition of a hitherto ghostly celebrity of the movies.
The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 6
11  "Those big movies around Fiftieth Street are cool," suggested Jordan.
The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 7
12  There's the hay, let alone the movies.
Between the Acts By Virginia Woolf
Context  Highlight   In Unit 11
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16  I'll wait for the movie to come out on cable.
17  We missed the beginning of the movie.
18  We have both seen the movie.
19  The movie bombed out at the box office.
20  This movie is intended to revive her flagging career.
21  The movie helped boost her screen career.
22  After the movie we went for a meal in a Chinese restaurant.
23  The movie was not a commercial success.
24  The movie will have to be a huge hit to recoup its cost.
25  This courageous and subversive movie has attracted widespread critical support.
26  With this new movie he has consolidated his position as the country's leading director.
27  The director invited him to score the movie.
28  The normally publicity-shy director will be making several public appearances for the launch of the movie.
29  In the movie, the two thieves try to discover whether the banknotes are fakes or the real McCoy, with hilarious results.
30  His dream of being a movie star became true.