How to Use gross in a Sentence

gross

1 of 2 verb
  • The movie grossed more than $300 million at the box office, and millions more in home video sales.
    Mark Heim | Mheim@al.com, al, 14 Aug. 2023
  • That makes Nolan’s epic the fourth highest grossing Imax release of all time.
    Etan Vlessing, The Hollywood Reporter, 31 Oct. 2023
  • The movie starred Angela Bassett as Tina and grossed $56 million.
    Tomás Mier, Peoplemag, 24 May 2023
  • Naughty and nice, this wedding comedy will both gross you out and leave your heart full.
    Julie Kosin, ELLE, 4 Jan. 2023
  • Just 2018's Aquaman, which went on to gross more than a billion dollars at the box office.
    Evan Romano, Men's Health, 28 Apr. 2023
  • The bout would gross more than $96 million worldwide and set pay-per-view and attendance records.
    Troy L. Smith, cleveland, 18 Apr. 2021
  • The four films have together grossed some $300 million.
    Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 13 July 2023
  • In India, the film grossed $27 million in fifteen days at the ticket windows.
    Sweta Kaushal, Forbes, 11 Feb. 2024
  • All told, his films have grossed more than $4.23 billion in global revenue.
    Ashraf Khalil, Fortune, 16 Nov. 2023
  • But feeding them from the breast just grosses people out for some reason.
    Angela Andaloro, Peoplemag, 24 July 2023
  • With over 40 million copies sold, Rumours is one of the highest-grossing albums of all time.
    Hannah Malach, ELLE, 5 Mar. 2023
  • The sticky, unfamiliar folds of her vulva grossed her out.
    Clare Sestanovich, The New Yorker, 6 Nov. 2023
  • The Creed franchise alone has grossed over $660 million across three across three installments.
    Bryan Hood, Robb Report, 5 Dec. 2023
  • The film released in May and with a box office of $25 million is the highest grossing Malayalam-language film of all time.
    Patrick Frater, Variety, 5 Oct. 2023
  • In its first four days in theaters, Barbie has grossed nearly $190 million.
    Heather Hamilton, Washington Examiner, 25 July 2023
  • Choose a plastic, disposable tongue scraper if the thought of reusing a tongue scraper grosses you out.
    Daley Quinn, Verywell Health, 1 Apr. 2024
  • The Thursday preview screenings Swift added last minute grossed $2.8 million.
    Nina Corcoran, Pitchfork, 15 Oct. 2023
  • The epic trek itself is expected to become the highest grossing concert tour of all time.
    Ethan Millman, Rolling Stone, 2 Dec. 2023
  • At the time, she was expected to gross $100 million during a three-month European tour.
    Caitlin O'Kane, CBS News, 25 May 2023
  • Combined, the two musical films grossed over $1 billion at the worldwide box office.
    Zack Sharf, Variety, 13 Sep. 2023
  • The film became the seventh highest-grossing film in movie history.
    Taylor Lorenz, Washington Post, 25 Mar. 2023
  • The stadium tour grossed $154 million and sold one million tickets in Europe alone.
    Kyle Denis, Billboard, 19 July 2023
  • Oppenheimer opened in theaters in July, and has since grossed nearly $1 billion at the box office.
    Alex Weprin, The Hollywood Reporter, 12 Jan. 2024
  • Eras grossed more than $900 million last year, according to Billboard estimates, and is on its way to earn more than any tour ever.
    Steve Knopper, Billboard, 27 Jan. 2024
  • At the international box office, the film has grossed a staggering $760 million to date.
    Rebecca Rubin, Variety, 2 Sep. 2023
  • And why not, when Fleetwood Mac tours would regularly gross hundreds of millions of dollars?
    Los Angeles Times, 10 Sep. 2021
  • Her blockbuster tour has been popular beyond anyone’s wildest dreams and is on track to gross more than $2 billion in North America alone.
    WSJ, 8 Oct. 2023
  • The auction grossed over $44 million, with seven cars fetching seven-figure sums.
    Bryan Hood, Robb Report, 9 Nov. 2023
  • The publication projected the Eras Tour could gross $1.6 billion.
    Caitlin O'Kane, CBS News, 3 Aug. 2023
  • Godzilla x Kong has a big opening internationally, and should be able to gross at least $75 million.
    Mark Hughes, Forbes, 27 Mar. 2024
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gross

2 of 2 noun
  • The film opened on a Wednesday and earned a five-day gross of $43 million.
    Zack Sharf, Variety, 7 Aug. 2023
  • The next week, grosses fell to $7 million, and this week to $2 million.
    Armond White, National Review, 8 Nov. 2023
  • The grosses increased as the weekends went by, and the film stayed in theaters for months.
    Scott Phillips, Forbes, 7 Mar. 2023
  • On the whole, at Thirty Tigers the general rule of thumb is that our artists earn 75 percent of the gross.
    Jonathan Bernstein, Rolling Stone, 10 Feb. 2022
  • On the second day, the film managed a global gross of $2 million.
    Sweta Kaushal, Forbes, 14 Feb. 2024
  • That brings the biopic about the troubled pop icon to a $16 million domestic gross.
    Brent Lang, Variety, 1 Jan. 2023
  • This means that Swift could buy almost 2,000 homes with her U.S. Eras grosses alone.
    Katie Atkinson, Billboard, 19 Dec. 2023
  • Here’s the basic formula: All actors have an agent who gets 10 percent of the gross.
    Mike Barnes, The Hollywood Reporter, 15 Aug. 2022
  • The film has a lower gross per showing, but ran more frequently.
    Alex Weprin, The Hollywood Reporter, 5 Feb. 2024
  • The revival brought in just above $2 million across eight shows last week, which also marked a record gross for the production.
    Caitlin Huston, The Hollywood Reporter, 20 Dec. 2022
  • The movie finished third overall in the year’s box-office gross, topping more than $244 million.
    Marc Bona, cleveland, 24 Dec. 2021
  • Total domestic gross should stand at $518 million through Sunday, far and away the highest of the year so far.
    J. Kim Murphy, Baltimore Sun, 7 May 2023
  • The comedy was a box office hit with a $139.5 million global gross.
    Zack Sharf, Variety, 9 Nov. 2023
  • That movie went on to be one of the biggest box office draws out of the pandemic, heading to a worldwide gross of nearly $1.5 billion.
    Mia Galuppo, The Hollywood Reporter, 22 Feb. 2023
  • The total domestic gross has now pushed beyond $550 million, with plenty of fuel left in the tank as the summer winds down.
    J. Kim Murphy, Variety, 19 Aug. 2023
  • Curtis became one of the film's biggest boosters, helping Knives Out to achieve a global gross of more than $300 million.
    Clark Collis, EW.com, 4 Oct. 2022
  • The movie released in January and has earned almost $42 million worldwide gross.
    Sweta Kaushal, Forbes, 18 Feb. 2024
  • The preview gross includes $1 million tacked on from an earlier Imax fan event, while Imax screens turned in a huge $4.5 million of the total preview gross.
    Pamela McClintock, The Hollywood Reporter, 1 Mar. 2024
  • At the time, $3 million represented a record-setting gross in China.
    Erich Schwartzel, The Atlantic, 8 Feb. 2022
  • The official opening gross for Eras Tour will be released Monday morning.
    Ashley Cullins, The Hollywood Reporter, 15 Oct. 2023
  • The tour was wildly successful and earned a total gross of over $125 million, according to Billboard’s Year-End Boxscore charts.
    Thania Garcia, Variety, 5 Dec. 2023
  • The film’s Monday gross of $26.1 million was a record for Warner Bros., indicating the comedy is holding strong.
    Brian Contreras, Los Angeles Times, 26 July 2023
  • The comedy is still selling tickets at matinee prices and looks to bump its domestic gross to $25 million through Sunday.
    J. Kim Murphy, Variety, 11 Feb. 2023
  • And box office grosses at the theaters that share their data with the League plunged to $1.3 million that week, down from $2.2 million the comparable week before the pandemic.
    Michael Paulson, New York Times, 5 Dec. 2023
  • Meanwhile, recent Marvel films and DC movies haven’t approached the kinds of grosses once assured of comic-book adaptations.
    Jake Coyle, Fortune, 25 July 2023
  • In a short theatrical run prior to being released on Amazon Prime, the latter racked up one of the highest per-screen grosses of any documentary from that year.
    Jeff Weiss, Spin, 21 Aug. 2023
  • Total domestic gross should push to $340 million through Sunday.
    J. Kim Murphy, Variety, 1 July 2023
  • Perhaps more important than the opening gross is how Flower Moon performs in the ensuing weeks as awards season unfolds.
    Pamela McClintock, The Hollywood Reporter, 20 Oct. 2023
  • The Renaissance World Tour is Beyoncé’s biggest to date, with grosses expected to cross the $550 million mark.
    Gil Kaufman, Billboard, 2 Oct. 2023
  • Rereleases don’t generally generate huge grosses — exceptions include Avatar — and Oppenheimer looks to earn roughly $333K for the weekend.
    Pamela McClintock, The Hollywood Reporter, 16 Mar. 2024

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