How to Use ad in a Sentence

ad

noun
  • Uber hasn’t mentioned if users will be able to skip the ads.
    Jess Weatherbed, The Verge, 16 June 2023
  • The Hulu + Live TV plan with no ads costs $89.99 per month.
    Dina Kaur, The Arizona Republic, 22 Apr. 2024
  • The irreverent ad is meant to connect with the tone of The Match.
    Alex Weprin, The Hollywood Reporter, 29 June 2023
  • The latest feature in this vein is called free-form ads.
    Boone Ashworth, WIRED, 16 Mar. 2024
  • The ads never mentioned the teens by name but referred to Central Park.
    Jennifer Hassan, Washington Post, 28 June 2023
  • Each week, a different member of the cast will appear in an ad and a social post.
    Brian Steinberg, Variety, 1 Nov. 2023
  • The trip offered me a glimpse of what’s not shown in ads that regularly appear on my TV.
    Tony Briscoe, Los Angeles Times, 5 Dec. 2023
  • There are times when, for all the glinting complexity of Guettel’s score, the play feels like a 105-minute-long ad for AA.
    Sara Holdren, Vulture, 28 Jan. 2024
  • Google might also do both and target subscribers with ads, too.
    Paresh Dave, WIRED, 8 Feb. 2024
  • And despite all the billboards and subway ads, some people aren’t going back to SVB.
    Gerrit De Vynck, Washington Post, 15 Mar. 2024
  • Click on Manage Privacy on the left-hand side and scroll down to Categories used to show you ads.
    Fox News, 12 Nov. 2023
  • The ad included a QR code leading to a website, titlesruineverything.com, where Drake revealed that a new album is on the way.
    Mitchell Peters, Billboard, 24 June 2023
  • TraffickJunky claims its ads are viewed 3.2 billion times a day.
    WIRED, 29 June 2023
  • The police knew the killer targeted women who posted ads on Craigslist.
    Robert Kolker, New York Times, 19 Oct. 2023
  • One such ad caught the attention of Terry White, a disabled retiree from New York.
    Hanna Kozlowska, Washington Post, 25 July 2023
  • Soon, Quick is spending his free time lounging around with this Abercrombie & Fitch ad come to life.
    David Fear, Rolling Stone, 22 Nov. 2023
  • On April 3rd, another woman who is struggling in life learned about the Skip the Games app and, at the suggestion of a friend, posted an ad.
    Carol Robinson | Crobinson@al.com, al, 29 Aug. 2023
  • There’s another good reason to hitch the ad’s debut to the championships.
    Brian Steinberg, Variety, 26 Jan. 2024
  • Bernad revealed that the search for Ronald began with a Craigslist ad that roughly 3000 people responded to.
    Jaden Thompson, Variety, 16 Aug. 2023
  • The code indicated that the entry-level plan will include the normal amount of ads, and the standard plan will show half as many ads.
    Aisha Counts, Fortune, 6 Oct. 2023
  • View full post on Instagram Williams also posted the photo on his own page, sharing a shot of him posing in front of the ad.
    Alyssa Bailey, ELLE, 16 June 2023
  • An ad designed to push back on concerns about Biden’s age, showing a man on the move, swiftly making his way into a war zone.
    ABC News, 10 Sep. 2023
  • Talent and studios were unable to host tastemakers or bombard the public with ads.
    Clayton Davis, Variety, 19 Oct. 2023
  • These companies withdrew from the platform over fears that their ads would be displayed next to far-right messages.
    Asher Notheis, Washington Examiner, 21 Nov. 2023
  • Amazon’s ad services business grew 27% last quarter, and made up around 15% of its total sales.
    Nathaniel Meyersohn, CNN, 20 Feb. 2024
  • There are three tiers above the free one, each with increasing bonus attractions including no ads and swag.
    Dawn Burkes, Los Angeles Times, 12 June 2023
  • The ads tout the coins as a safe haven from economic uncertainty and social upheaval.
    Jeremy B. Merrill and Hanna Kozlowska, Anchorage Daily News, 25 July 2023
  • The TVs, subsidized by those ads on the second screen, will begin shipping out to the customers on its waitlist this summer.
    Jennifer Korn, CNN, 17 May 2023
  • Local news will be gathered, ads can be placed and papers will be delivered.
    Lorraine Mirabella, Baltimore Sun, 15 Jan. 2024
  • Meghan Trainor serves both glowy skin and her civic duty in e.l.f Cosmetics’ 2024 Super Bowl ad.
    Hannah Dailey, Billboard, 9 Feb. 2024

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