How to Use airtime in a Sentence

airtime

noun
  • The committee plans to buy radio airtime for the campaign ads.
  • The same reporters who laughed at my jokes would continue to give him airtime.
    Darryl Pinckney, The New York Review of Books, 25 Mar. 2021
  • How much money is two years of interest and airtime worth to the Cowboys?
    David Moore, Dallas News, 13 Mar. 2021
  • So that is a lot of airtime, and Winfrey is a skilled interviewer.
    Washington Post, 5 Mar. 2021
  • The bottom line: The gubernatorial race is just one of many that will be fighting for airtime over the next two months.
    Arika Herron, Axios, 6 Sep. 2024
  • For better or worse, Britney Spears is back in the press, with her iconic looks of yesteryear getting plenty of airtime.
    Liana Satenstein, Vogue, 25 Feb. 2021
  • But the third time was the charm for BTS getting primetime treatment and plenty of airtime—and making history.
    Raisa Bruner, Time, 15 Mar. 2021
  • The problem is that, with the mad bull rush to market, to promote, to go viral, to get airtime, ad space, getting mind share and establishing a brand is a massive challenge.
    Jerry Weissman, Forbes, 11 Mar. 2021
  • But despite his airtime in the anti-recall campaign’s video spot, the former president has yet to actually comment on the effort, as John notes.
    Julia Wick, Los Angeles Times, 16 Mar. 2021
  • Last year, The Bachelorette devoted airtime to a conversation about race, a rare topic for a lead and suitor to discuss on camera.
    Shirley Li, The Atlantic, 28 Mar. 2021
  • Best of all is the airtime going through the second hill.
    Dewayne Bevil, orlandosentinel.com, 2 May 2021
  • This trait of ‘equal airtime’ is one of the is one of the hallmarks of high performing teams.
    Alain Hunkins, Forbes, 21 Feb. 2024
  • That’s a lot of airtime to fill, no matter how compelling the event might be.
    Rob Salkowitz, Forbes, 28 June 2021
  • The group didn’t show up in a search of broadcast airtime by the ad-tracking firm AdImpact.
    Isaac Arnsdorf, ProPublica, 21 May 2021
  • Fruits and vegetables get a lot of airtime this time of year, and for good reason.
    Anna Luisa Rodriguez, Washington Post, 7 June 2023
  • Our bush plane pilot, an old-timer with decades of airtime, gave us the safety speech.
    Lauren Mowery, Forbes, 5 July 2022
  • The past few seasons have been dragged down by non-issues stretched out over a dozen episodes to fill airtime.
    Louis Peitzman, Vulture, 7 Sep. 2021
  • This story has been corrected to say the show's airtime is 12:37 a.m.
    Lynn Elber, Chron, 29 Apr. 2022
  • Many of these right-wing outlets have given airtime to false claims about the 2020 election.
    Katelyn Polantz and Marshall Cohen, CNN, 24 Apr. 2021
  • Super Bowl airtime at the start of his performance in 1993.
    Troy L. Smith, cleveland, 23 Apr. 2021
  • The group has already reserved close to $3 million in TV airtime ahead of the April 1 budget deadline.
    Nicholas Fandos, New York Times, 21 Mar. 2023
  • With high views come high prices, and just 30 seconds of airtime in this year’s Super Bowl cost $7 million.
    Sergii Denysenko, Forbes, 29 Mar. 2024
  • This prompts leaders to pause and give airtime to dissenting views.
    Alex Edmans, TIME, 17 June 2024
  • Good lord, the airtime given to the Gardner Minshew story line tonight.
    Dallas News, 8 Jan. 2022
  • With protest songs unable to gain airtime, artists must stick to social media.
    John Arterbury, Rolling Stone, 17 Mar. 2022
  • But, at the time, if a prepaid cellphone owner did not have any airtime, the call could not be completed.
    Toby Shapshak, Forbes, 26 Feb. 2024
  • Barrack was available to fill airtime, and that was plenty.
    Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 21 July 2021
  • And there is a need to fill airtime, get eyeballs reading stories, and satisfy the SEO gods.
    Oliver Darcy, CNN, 8 Dec. 2021
  • Once the strikes were over, the network then decided to keep the show at 90 minutes, so the new season 36 will be running at the longer airtime anyway.
    Dalton Ross, EW.com, 21 Feb. 2024
  • While the tour traverses all eras of Swift’s career, her more recent albums are given far more airtime.
    Will Richards, Rolling Stone, 22 June 2024

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