How to Use tentpole in a Sentence

tentpole

noun
Definition of tentpolenext
  • Amid this cast, Cruise is the tentpole that holds up this film.
    — Luke MacY, The Enquirer, 11 July 2023
  • And by the new year, tentpole is aiming to hit the $1 billion mark.
    — Rebecca Rubin, Variety, 21 Dec. 2022
  • On May 5, Marvel's Blade became the first tentpole film to succumb to the strike.
    — Lester Fabian Brathwaite, EW.com, 7 May 2023
  • There were simply no tentpole events to build the story around.
    — Eric Ravenscraft, WIRED, 4 Sep. 2023
  • This year, Amazon did not have any tentpole shows that broke into the top 0.2% of shows in the U.S. based on demand.
    — Wendy Lee, Los Angeles Times, 29 Sep. 2021
  • For tapas fans who watched the city’s two tentpole tapas spots close permanently in the past year, Brasa Haya fills a void.
    — Michael Russell, oregonlive, 1 Sep. 2021
  • The last thing either pricey tentpole wants to deal with is a still-robust Chinese blockbuster stealing the show.
    — Scott Mendelson, Forbes, 8 Oct. 2021
  • The two actors are longtime friends off screen and now play even longer-time lovers in Marvel's latest tentpole.
    — Devan Coggan, EW.com, 15 Oct. 2021
  • As spring becomes summer, the holiday weekend serves a tentpole to take stock of the season to date.
    — Gabe Lacques, USA TODAY, 29 May 2022
  • Which is not to say its episodes are stopgaps, secondary pursuits to mark the time while the studio works on its next tentpole release.
    — Alexander Chatziioannou, Washington Post, 7 Nov. 2022
  • Elsewhere on the schedule, there are tentpole shows aplenty.
    — Luke Leitch, Vogue, 23 May 2022
  • The ’zon tends to slash prices on the best vibrators for tentpole sales, and this October Prime Day is no different.
    — Andrea Navarro, Glamour, 11 Oct. 2023
  • But Sarhangi says few have made ease of use for everyone and anyone a tentpole of their services.
    — Declan Harty, Fortune, 14 July 2022
  • The director, who cut his teeth making genre indies, had long dreamed of helming a big tentpole movie.
    — Tracy Brown, Los Angeles Times, 29 Mar. 2024
  • The tentpole events of the All-Star Weekend stay relatively consistent from year to year.
    — Andy Larsen, The Salt Lake Tribune, 20 Feb. 2022
  • But the idea, especially for tentpoles that cost $200 million-plus, is to grow, not shrink, the fanbase with new installments.
    — Rebecca Rubin, Variety, 2 May 2023
  • The tentpole is focusing on a younger iteration of the superhero than the one last seen on the big screen played by Henry Cavill.
    — Zack Sharf, Variety, 3 Apr. 2023
  • That makes sense, given that SharePlay was such a tentpole feature of summer keynote.
    — Anthony Karcz, Forbes, 18 Oct. 2021
  • The recent premiers of tentpole epics like The Rings of Power mask the fact that the days when studios would not hesitate to splurge in the quest for subscriber growth and lower rates of churn, appear over.
    — Christiaan Hetzner, Fortune, 2 Sep. 2022
  • Stallone also said today’s Hollywood tentpole movies shot in front of green screens aren’t his style.
    — Etan Vlessing, The Hollywood Reporter, 15 Sep. 2023
  • Empathy is a feminine trait that – over the past two years – has become a tentpole of great leadership.
    — Silvia Mah, Forbes, 28 Jan. 2022
  • After that, there was no way the corporate overlords at Vought were going to let her feature in their big blockbuster tentpole.
    — Nick Romano, EW.com, 3 June 2022
  • With its midrange budget and smaller-than-tentpole scale, Batgirl didn’t fit into the new corporate ethos.
    — Vulture, 5 Aug. 2022
  • The blockbuster actor has an absurdly huge 2023, with major roles in two tentpole films that should be among the most massive of the year in terms of both spectacle and box office.
    — Ebenezer Samuel, Men's Health, 28 Apr. 2023
  • The pic, starring Brad Pritt, is the only major studio action tentpole on the calendar for August.
    — Zack Sharf, Variety, 18 July 2022
  • The studio is making the tentpole in partnership with Legendary Pictures.
    — Pamela McClintock, The Hollywood Reporter, 5 Apr. 2023
  • Even the biggest tentpole movie is little more than a visiting circus that will disappear with nary a trace after a month or two.
    — Todd Longwell, Variety, 19 Aug. 2023
  • Our ambitions with Hallock on board will be set high: on daily, enterprise, guides, recipes and tentpole projects.
    — Los Angeles Times, 6 Oct. 2022
  • To wrest back the sport, and to survive in an entertainment business consolidating around tentpole events and bankable stars, the Tour might have to look a bit more like LIV.
    — Ben Cohen, WSJ, 28 July 2022
  • That’s a disappointing start for a family-friendly tentpole, which will struggle to get out of the red in its theatrical run.
    — Rebecca Rubin, Variety, 31 July 2023

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