How to Use Hollywood in a Sentence

Hollywood

noun
  • In 2007, he was honored with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
    Emily St. Martin, Los Angeles Times, 12 Dec. 2023
  • And for the Swifties who didn’t get to go to the Hollywood premiere Wednesday, seeing the movie at the same mall the next evening was the next best thing.
    Angela Yang, NBC News, 13 Oct. 2023
  • And Jennifer Lopez, at one point, was tapped for a Hollywood biopic.
    Yvonne Villarreal, Los Angeles Times, 22 Jan. 2024
  • The Hollywood Reporter reached out to Testino and Weber but did not hear back as of press time.
    Chris Gardner, The Hollywood Reporter, 3 Apr. 2024
  • In the last nearly 25 years, Mandy Moore has grown up in Hollywood as her fans and audiences have grown along with her.
    Krystie Lee Yandoli, Rolling Stone, 23 Dec. 2023
  • For Mann, despite the pushback, the benefits of AI in Hollywood outweigh the risks.
    Jason Nathanson, ABC News, 1 Sep. 2023
  • In the years since, Marling has established herself as one of the more compelling artists in Hollywood.
    Marlow Stern, Rolling Stone, 12 Dec. 2023
  • At least that’s how the former TV nanny tells it in an interview with the Hollywood Reporter.
    Holman W. Jenkins, Jr., WSJ, 17 Nov. 2023
  • The Hollywood Reporter has reached out to Mitchell’s rep and Spotify for comment.
    Carly Thomas, The Hollywood Reporter, 22 Mar. 2024
  • But a wave of organizing in the field comes as Hollywood’s labor movement is in full swing.
    Ramishah Maruf, CNN, 13 Sep. 2023
  • Mom and Dad) looked on Brando — the barbarian at the gates of Broadway and Hollywood — with undisguised horror.
    Ty Burr, Washington Post, 3 Apr. 2024
  • What does that say to you about Hollywood’s evolution — or lack thereof?
    Randee Dawn, Los Angeles Times, 10 Jan. 2024
  • There is an adage in Hollywood that actors want to win awards to boost their egos, whereas directors want to win awards to boost their budgets.
    Rachel Syme, The New Yorker, 22 Jan. 2024
  • But Cera, who doesn’t have a smartphone and avoids social media, still comes across as open, amiable and devoid of Hollywood hubris.
    Thomas Floyd, Washington Post, 15 Feb. 2024
  • One way to make academics seem interesting is to thrust them from the ivory tower and into the world, as seen in films from the European art house to Hollywood.
    Lauren Michele Jackson, The New Yorker, 12 Dec. 2023
  • The film features the two Hollywood stars at a destination wedding where love is in the air — and so is their disdain for one another.
    Tomás Mier, Rolling Stone, 18 Nov. 2023
  • In the early years of Hollywood, studios turned to Broadway for storylines.
    Hanna Zakharenko, Washington Post, 10 Jan. 2024
  • Writers in Hollywood have been striking since May with actors joining them last month.
    Terry Collins, USA TODAY, 8 Aug. 2023
  • Below is The Hollywood Reporter‘s rundown of premieres, returns and specials for March 9-15.
    Rick Porter, The Hollywood Reporter, 9 Mar. 2022
  • Click here for more photos of Danny McBride’s Hollywood penthouse.
    Mark David, Robb Report, 25 Oct. 2023
  • Goldberg writes about how her hair and makeup team helped Hollywood improve its treatment of Black talent.
    Wesley Stenzel, EW.com, 9 May 2024
  • Whatever the next move for Sweeney, she’s undoubtedly been enshrined as one of Hollywood’s hot young stars.
    David Sims, The Atlantic, 22 Mar. 2024
  • Saved Stories Hollywood was never going to stop making more Hunger Games movies.
    Shirley Li, The Atlantic, 17 Nov. 2023
  • Thank you Jimmy Kimmel for hosting it in your black-box theater on Hollywood Boulevard.
    Vulture, 17 Nov. 2023
  • The musicians’ top issues are the same ones that forced Hollywood writers and actors to go on strike last year, paralyzing the industry for six months.
    Gene Maddaus, Variety, 22 Jan. 2024
  • The Hollywood Reporter first broke the development news.
    Joe Otterson, Variety, 25 Oct. 2023
  • The event, supported by Princess Grace, who enlisted her Hollywood contacts to serve as celebrity judges, awards prizes to the top circus acts and is considered the Oscars of the circus world.
    Peter Mikelbank, Peoplemag, 22 Jan. 2024
  • Rome’s iconic monuments are getting lots of mileage in Hollywood movies this summer.
    Nick Vivarelli, Variety, 12 July 2023
  • The actor kept her styling classic, wearing her signature red hair Jessica Rabbit style, with a deep side part and Old Hollywood curls.
    Kathleen Walsh, Glamour, 9 Jan. 2024
  • But the ongoing Hollywood actors’ and writers’ strikes and the impasse with studio negotiations mean that the pool of movies making its way to theaters could dry up over the next year.
    Eva Rothenberg, CNN, 1 Sep. 2023

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