How to Use airtime in a Sentence

airtime

noun
  • The committee plans to buy radio airtime for the campaign ads.
  • 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
  • The event will grant Trump precious airtime in the crunch before Nov. 3.
    Katherine Doyle, Washington Examiner, 20 Oct. 2020
  • That’s a lot of airtime to fill, no matter how compelling the event might be.
    Rob Salkowitz, Forbes, 28 June 2021
  • In the 52 hours over five days that the trio would hold court at that desk, there had been plenty of hot takes to fill the airtime.
    Katherine Rosman, New York Times, 13 Nov. 2020
  • 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
  • The letter led to Fox’s decision to devote airtime to fact check the claims.
    Los Angeles Times, 24 Dec. 2020
  • Josh Hawley and Ted Cruz may struggle for airtime for quite a while.
    Alex Shephard, The New Republic, 12 Jan. 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • How much money is two years of interest and airtime worth to the Cowboys?
    David Moore, Dallas News, 13 Mar. 2021
  • Shame on any media outlet that gives it space or airtime.
    refinery29.com, 14 Aug. 2020
  • 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
  • As big tech companies have seized their own airtime during the last decade, the power of CES’s main stage has waned.
    Verge Staff, The Verge, 16 Jan. 2021
  • With protest songs unable to gain airtime, artists must stick to social media.
    John Arterbury, Rolling Stone, 17 Mar. 2022
  • So that is a lot of airtime, and Winfrey is a skilled interviewer.
    Washington Post, 5 Mar. 2021
  • 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
  • The only headlines and the only airtime that Nicole gets is by attacking other women.
    Anne Victoria Clark, Vulture, 13 Sep. 2024
  • The atmosphere was tense as the Fox News production team waited for Harris to show up, Baier said, as her late arrival pushed the limits for the network to get the interview up and running for the 6 p.m. airtime.
    Emily Hallas, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 17 Oct. 2024

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