Example sentences for: television

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

  • Between its 1988 launch and 1993, Roseanne ranked among the three highest-rated shows on television.

  • Similarly, USA Today quoted Jarvis as saying, "Gary Bauer just went on national television and refused to tell the truth."

  • In April 1996, a political advertisement on television used the word legislator when the context made clear that legislature was intended.

  • In Corriere della Sera , a front-page comment by Tullio Kezich, headlined "Shame on you, Hollywood," complained that "this undisputed giant of the Seventh Art" won only one Oscar, and that only for the special effects in 2001: A Space Odyssey . In La Repubblica , in which his death was the main front-page lead Monday, Michele Serra compared him to Salman Rushdie, but as a fugitive from "another kind of fatwa, a typically Western one: condemnation to fame, photographs and interviews, television and awards ceremonies, juries and society; because he was, after all, the most famous and celebrated living author of the most important language of the century, the cinema."

  • The figure touted here would have required third-party verification in a political-campaign spot; it is easily accepted in a spot that takes on an industry that has long been banned from running ads on television.


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