Example sentences for: blockbusters

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

  • Newsweek 's optimistic spin of Titanic 's success: It's not inspiring Hollywood to make $200 million action blockbusters, it's inspiring Hollywood to make movies targeted at women.

  • Although the book business has grown more dependent on new blockbusters, 53 percent of Barnes & Noble's sales, for example, come from "backlist" books, i.e., books published more than 12 months ago.

  • Rap returns us to the same sprawling prolixity as 1890s ballads--and 12-verse story songs, whether they're lilting waltzes or numbingly hard-core, are rarely distinguished as music . Almost all turn-of-the-century blockbusters have the simplest of tonal structures.

  • Midlist Crisis: Some charge that the conglomerates are starting to ignore the "midlist " book, serious nonfiction and literary fiction that sells fewer than 30,000 copies, preferring to gamble on potentially lucrative blockbusters.

  • As befits a city which every February hosts a major International Film Festival, Berlin is endowed with a huge number of cinemas, showing a variety of films ranging from the usual Hollywood blockbusters to avant-garde works of art.


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