How to Use infomercial in a Sentence
infomercial
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Not to sound like a late-night infomercial, but that’s not all.
—BostonGlobe.com, 24 Mar. 2021
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The show was framed as news, but sounded to me more like an hour-long infomercial.
—Lisa Shah, STAT, 28 Mar. 2024
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Push the bar, monkey, and get an infomercial on satori!
—Ty Burr, BostonGlobe.com, 8 Mar. 2018
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But this one should have been pushed back to 1 a.m., buried in infomercials where nobody would have seen it.
—Ken Goe, OregonLive.com, 14 Oct. 2017
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But, just like on a late night infomercial, this deal gets even better.
—Richard Mann, Outdoor Life, 17 Sep. 2019
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At first glance, the Stealth Core Trainer might remind you of a piece of workout gear from a late-night infomercial.
—Sarah Klein, Health.com, 31 Jan. 2018
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The stealthy infomercials of YouTube are not the same as those that take over cable channels when programming ends for the night.
—Abby Ohlheiser, Washington Post, 23 Aug. 2019
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In the famous infomercial, Mr. Swift saws an aluminum boat in half and puts it back together with Flex Tape.
—Joe Cermele, Outdoor Life, 31 May 2023
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An infomercial for the Bath Buddy and a trailer for the album are posted on the Nightflight video platform nightflightplus.com.
—Will Coviello, NOLA.com, 12 Oct. 2020
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He was brought in to turn around the purveyor of infomercials that were once a staple of cable TV—no easy feat in the age of streamers and social video.
—Paolo Confino, Fortune, 5 June 2023
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If anything, the number seems low given that, over the course of nearly a year, Trudeau’s Weight Loss Cure infomercial sold thousands of books each day for many months.
—Phil Plait, Discover Magazine, 18 Dec. 2011
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Looking to escape his misery for a moment, Phelps sees an infomercial on the screen for incense and orders a box.
—Nerisha Penrose, Billboard, 29 Mar. 2018
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The top entry, a site called All Business Network, was accused of being a stealth infomercial.
—Ian Bogost, The Atlantic, 25 Mar. 2024
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Horse auctions compete with the blare of product demos, sweepstakes, and endless loops of infomercials.
—Lucas Graves, WIRED, 1 Feb. 2006
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This one’s a prequel to Mr. Bay’s 2007 rock-em-sock-em epic, which doubled as perhaps the world’s most expensive toy infomercial.
—Kyle Smith, WSJ, 8 June 2023
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The broadcast, at times, was a UConn basketball infomercial.
—Chad Finn, BostonGlobe.com, 24 June 2023
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As with every one of these streaming infomercials, rumors and leaks have already spilled the beans on what’s likely to be announced.
—Boone Ashworth, WIRED, 11 Sep. 2023
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The actress was also known for her 1990s infomercials for the ThighMaster exercise equipment, which was meant to be placed between one’s knees and squeezed to tone the thighs.
—Hilary Lewis, The Hollywood Reporter, 15 Oct. 2023
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Body of Your Dreams deconstructs an infomercial about some sort of waist-slimming device.
—David Patrick Stearns, Philly.com, 14 Sep. 2017
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Santa appears and tells the gang that if a winner is not determined, an infomercial will air instead.
—Steve Smith, Hartford Courant, 1 Dec. 2022
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Another was an infomercial for a miniature staircase that people can put next to their ears at night, so that their dreams can come out and dance, to prevent headaches.
—Michael Schulman, The New Yorker, 21 Dec. 2020
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Online stores have adopted tricks used by infomercials and home shopping networks for years.
—CBS News, 23 Jan. 2020
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Kardashian even poked fun at her lingerie brand Skims, with an infomercial for a figure-slimming line for dogs.
—Quinci Legardye, Harper's BAZAAR, 10 Oct. 2021
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The campaign features four print images, a closeup on each of four models, as well as a video inspired by eighties infomercials.
—Glamour, 6 May 2019
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Green Bay Packers The old school infomercial brought nostalgia.
—Jordan Mendoza, USA TODAY, 12 May 2023
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Making the infomercial so compelling that the networks want to keep it on the air is precisely what convention planners are aiming for.
—Doyle McManus Los Angeles Times (tns), Star Tribune, 13 Aug. 2020
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Indeed, Fox Nation on Wednesday unveiled a new series led by Miller that looks at infomercials.
—Brian Steinberg, Variety, 10 Jan. 2024
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But just like every infomercial on television, wait there’s more.
—Neil Senturia, San Diego Union-Tribune, 24 May 2021
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Shopping has long been part of this experience (think: infomercials of the early 2000s or QVC-style shopping programs).
—Mia Sato, The Verge, 5 Apr. 2024
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For instance, one skit masqueraded as an infomercial for a night terror neck brace.
—Diane Bell Columnist, San Diego Union-Tribune, 9 Nov. 2020
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