How to Use clickbait in a Sentence

clickbait

noun

• Who at the @dccc thought this clickbait email subject line was a good idea?
  — Lukas Mikelionis, Fox News, 16 Apr. 2018
• Some commenters on her video claimed that the video was clickbait.
  — Tamara Fuentes, Seventeen, 2 Apr. 2020
• Both stories could be true, and the first headline isn’t clickbait.
  — Nicholas Thompson, WIRED, 23 May 2018
• For its part, YouTube says it’s already done the work of combating clickbait on the site.
  — Rebecca Jennings, Vox, 12 Nov. 2018
• There’s a worldwide web, there’s clickbait, there’s la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la.
  — Georg Szalai, The Hollywood Reporter, 11 Dec. 2023
• The internet is an endless sea of lists, and it’s tempting to view the Rolling Stone 500 as just one more piece of clickbait.
  — Mark Richardson, WSJ, 6 Oct. 2020
• Cannes is a social media clickbait magnet, but in a (very) good way.
  — Stephan Rabimov, Forbes, 7 July 2021
• To be in a place that nurtures artists and writers and isn’t heckling them to write clickbait is very important to me.
  — Kaitlin Menza, The Cut, 12 Dec. 2017
• The article was from the Daily Wire, a right-wing blog full of partisan clickbait.
  — Andrew Marantz, The New Yorker, 26 Mar. 2020
• Their grounded but comedic views are a relief to those looking to catch a break from the clickbait usually found on YouTube.
  — Pablo Goldstein, Vulture, 22 Apr. 2021
• Trust me, friends: No one likes thirsty clickbait, especially not the good people at SNL.
  — Andy Hoglund, EW.com, 4 Apr. 2021
• Reporters and media will do anything to come up with a clickbait story.
  — Mary Kay Cabot, cleveland.com, 20 Aug. 2019
• Conversely, clickbait ads, long-form ads, and disruptive ads will be tuned out in a blink.
  — Mitch Duckler, Fortune, 23 May 2024
• But some members of the public have become too savvy for alleged spin and clickbait strategies.
  — Sonia Rao, Washington Post, 7 Sep. 2023
• Since the coverage of DC Films has been reliable clickbait, at least since 2013, even the absence of news tends to get treated as news.
  — Scott Mendelson, Forbes, 12 Aug. 2022
• As inevitable as Gerber’s rise to prominence is and ought to be, the model message at Prada was not about clickbait.
  — Janelle Okwodu, Vogue, 21 Sep. 2017
• But projecting trades in a mock seems more likely to be striving for clickbait rather than searching for truth.
  — Mark Kiszla, The Denver Post, 6 Apr. 2020
• The main goal is to attract as many clicks as possible, then serve the readers ads worth just fractions of a cent on each visit — the classic form of clickbait.
  — Will Oremus, Washington Post, 5 May 2023
• The spread of fake news and clickbait could be taking its toll on users of Facebook and other social media, despite its value as a news source.
  — Mike Snider, USA TODAY, 30 June 2017
• And while his athletes are at best an asterisk at the games, the 229-member strong, all-female and unabashedly campy cheering squad is the hottest clickbait around.
  — USA TODAY, 12 Feb. 2018
• When users pile on by flagging a story with a clickbait headline, Artifact may show its A.I.-rewritten version to all users.
  — Alexei Oreskovic, Fortune, 2 June 2023
• Facebook is attempting to clean up its platform, and some creators did clutter the site with clickbait and spammy links.
  — Kevin Roose, New York Times, 8 Apr. 2018
• And of course, there is a storied tradition of writing ridiculous clickbait just to get people to pay attention to you.
  — Christian Schneider, National Review, 14 Sep. 2023
• The Guardian's cynical clickbait headline doesn't lead you to an actual discussion of the question, of course.
  — Keith Kloor, Discover Magazine, 5 May 2014
• In 1900, this type of crude grasp for the reader’s attention was called yellow journalism, what might be called clickbait today.
  — David Reamer | Alaska History, Anchorage Daily News, 6 Aug. 2023
• We're caught in this bad equilibrium where everybody has to write clickbait stuff.
  — Emily Dreyfuss, WIRED, 12 July 2018
• But then, clickbait began dropping into the lake of public opinion.
  — Chris Stirewalt, Fox News, 22 June 2018
• Her outfits that didn’t give off clickbait energy deeply inspired me.
  — Robyn Mowatt, Essence, 21 May 2024
• An Emmy winner for acting, directing, and writing, the series ought to be on the lips of the entire clickbait intelligentsia, filling digital column inches from the Ringer to Slate.
  — Graham Hillard, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 12 July 2024
• In the case of the alt-weeklies and OnlyFans listicles, the clickbait is appearing alongside actual editorial content, both archival and new.
  — Kate Knibbs, WIRED, 30 July 2024

Last Updated: 13 Dec 2024