Example sentences for: publicity

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

  • This time the white-hot light of publicity focused blame more on the administrators than on individual caregivers.

  • In a pre-release publicity coup for his forthcoming Eyes Wide Shut , Stanley Kubrick dies.

  • However, other celebrities "are furious because they can't stop us from telling the truth, even with their powerful publicity machines."

  • Hype in the sense of excessive or false publicity goes back much further than the 1960s (Collingwood's suggested decade of origin)--to at least the 1920s (per the Oxford English Dictionary ), which is the same time that hype is attested to as a verb and noun associated with drug use, and the word is explicitly linked to hypodermic . The OED , the Dictionary of American Slang , the Barnhart Dictionary of New English , and the Random House Historical Dictionary of American Slang all make the hypodermic connection.

  • The publicity regarding Mihdhar and Hazmi might have had a similar effect because they could have been identified by the airlines and might have jeopardized the operation.


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