Example sentences for: moviegoer

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

  • The average moviegoer with $8 and a seat in an Abilene multiplex is likely to find himself or herself subtly more complex, humane, and liberal after seeing that film than before.

  • Beatty's image isn't so iconic in the minds of today's moviegoer that subverting it is wildly hilarious.

  • Movie theaters have a certain amount of monopoly power (on a given night, a given moviegoer is likely to have a strong preference for a particular movie at a particular theater), and they price discriminate by offering discounts to senior citizens (which is equivalent to discriminating against everybody under the age of 65).

  • In other words, "a teen-age moviegoer's dream" (Anita Gates, the New York Times ) but "utterly uninspired" (Ty Burr, Entertainment Weekly ). (Join an online chat about Urban Legend .)

  • I don't mean to suggest that your response to The Green Mile (or that damn Jar Jar picture) isn't genuine--only that you seem to be responding both for yourself and for the unsophisticated moviegoer who will be better off seeing a movie in which a black man is a mystical healer wrongly executed than one in which a black man is, say, a drug pusher gorily dispatched by some action hero.


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