How to Use audience in a Sentence

audience

noun
Definition of audiencenext
Synonyms for audiencenext
  • The way the echo affected how the audience took in his jokes.
    — David Remnick, The New Yorker, 28 Apr. 2024
  • And introduce new audiences who are too young to remember the older movies.
    — Todd Gilchrist, Variety, 10 May 2024
  • Sanders, who once oversaw current programs at NBC, is more used to seeing audiences drift away as shows age.
    — Stephen Battaglio, Los Angeles Times, 2 Aug. 2024
  • By the second season, however, audiences stopped tuning in.
    — Allie Yang, ABC News, 2 Aug. 2024
  • Particle, then, prods the audience on a journey of recovering his splintered heart.
    — Todd Martens, Los Angeles Times, 10 May 2024
  • In his latest thriller, Trap, audiences will probably be most unnerved at empathizing with a serial killer.
    — Christian Holub, EW.com, 2 Aug. 2024
  • The film takes the audience back to the one-bedroom apartment David’s family lived in while his parents scrimped to send their sons to the best schools in Lagos.
    — Jen Wang, Robb Report, 28 Apr. 2024
  • The Bear audience has been (not so) patiently waiting for news about when Chris Storer’s award-winning drama will return.
    — Abby Montanez, Robb Report, 10 May 2024
  • After one commenter repeated a racial slur, Donaldson eventually instructed his audience to stop using that word in the chat.
    — CBS News, 1 Aug. 2024
  • Dressed in a fringed black jacket fit for a rockstar, the 69-year-old coach brought the show’s audience to its feet with the inspiring breakup song about leaving someone behind in order to move on and survive.
    — Meghan Overdeep, Southern Living, 9 May 2024
  • Despite the occasional hoot or holler in the audience, a hush crept over the amphitheater as Young sang, played plucky guitar and showcased his harmonica skills between verses.
    — Audrey Gibbs, USA TODAY, 10 May 2024
  • Fans in the audience screamed out the star’s last name.
    — Paul Grein, Billboard, 28 Feb. 2024
  • The move is likely to broaden the audience for the event.
    — Brian Steinberg, Variety, 7 Nov. 2023
  • The audience stretches back through the hall, past one of the two bathrooms and into the kitchen.
    — Jackson Landers, SPIN, 8 June 2023
  • In Japan, everyone in the audience does the same thing.
    — Billboard Japan, Billboard, 26 Oct. 2023
  • The audience gave a wild ovation, but the band demurred.
    — Evan Minsker, Pitchfork, 26 Oct. 2023
  • When the band had run through eight or nine Killers songs, the audience applauded.
    — Patrick Radden Keefe, The New Yorker, 25 Dec. 2023
  • War movies that take aim at male audiences — movies made to drive box office sales.
    — Amanda Luberto, The Arizona Republic, 11 July 2023
  • And as the evening entered its sixth hour, the lights came up and the remaining audience stumbled off into the night.
    — Jem Aswad, Variety, 4 Feb. 2024
  • Still, audiences came out in droves, turning it into one of the biggest movies of the summer.
    — Keith Langston, Peoplemag, 7 Aug. 2023
  • In one scene that made the Tribeca audience groan, Howard Stern does a parody in blackface.
    — Rob Sheffield, Rolling Stone, 17 June 2023
  • The app, still evolving to meet the needs of its audience, just rolled out a marketplace feature.
    — Sasha Rogelberg, Fortune, 20 July 2024
  • There are strange and startling twists of plot keeping the audience in suspense.
    — Mark Swed, Los Angeles Times, 27 June 2024
  • There is enough chemistry between the two to make the audience hope might just end more happily in this retelling.
    — Elaine Schmidt, Journal Sentinel, 11 Jan. 2024
  • While the show’s total audience grew a bit, ratings among adults 18-49 slipped a little.
    — Rick Porter, The Hollywood Reporter, 11 Mar. 2024
  • In the plaza afterward, the audience enjoyed a nice summer’s night with food vendors and a jazz band.
    — Teju Cole, New York Times, 12 Sep. 2023
  • Yet this is a decades-long conflict that few know about, and so the film forces the audience to reckon with its own ignorance.
    — Murtada Elfadl, Variety, 22 Mar. 2024
  • But the question is more about what was going on that made audiences receptive to you at that time.
    — David Marchese David Marchese Photograph By Mamadi Doumbouya, New York Times, 1 Oct. 2023
  • At first, the audience appeared reluctant to shake it off.
    — Angela Yang, NBC News, 13 Oct. 2023
  • Our art direction tries to bring the flavors of Old City, Ahmedabad, to the global audience.
    — Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 11 Mar. 2024

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