Example sentences for: billboard

How can you use “billboard” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Pick up Billboard 's Hot 100-chart reference books--or almost any pop reference book--and they all start on July 9, 1955, the dawn of "the rock era," when "Rock Around the Clock" got to No.

  • You don't need to sit through the whole two hours--particularly when you could be watching figure skating on TNT--but flip over occasionally to see if you can catch John Travolta's 1975 screen test for the role of Vinnie Barbarino on Welcome Back, Kotter . At 9 PM, music fans who really care which CDs topped the Soundscan charts this year may want to turn to a rerun of the 9th Annual Billboard Music Awards on VH1.

  • Between 1953 and the mid-'60s, he made his best records, scored most of his biggest Billboard hits, gave his finest film performances ( The Manchurian Candidate and From Here to Eternity , for which he won an Academy Award), and exerted the greatest political and cultural influence.

  • During the 1956 presidential elections the Hudson County Democratic Committee in New York erected a huge billboard sign high atop a gasoline station near the Holland Tunnel, which people driving into and out of Manhattan could not help seeing.

  • 1 on Billboard 's pop chart (it then dove down to No.


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