How to Use listicle in a Sentence

listicle

noun

• And yet, the ratio of dive-bar listicles to dive-bar obits must be about 10 to 1.
  — Atlanta Travel, ajc, 23 May 2017
• Then some twenty-two-year-old at BuzzFeed puts you in a listicle, and the world opens up.
  — Emma Soren, The New Yorker, 3 Mar. 2023
• Come gift guide season there are plenty of listicles out there that will aid your search.
  — Teen Vogue, 14 Nov. 2019
• In 2014, adult summer camps were even worthy of a Buzzfeed listicle.
  — Hilary Weaver, Vanities, 25 Apr. 2017
• But the listicle kind of praise is always over too quickly, like sugary candy.
  — Marilynne Robinson, Harper's magazine, 10 June 2019
• Amber might be wary of any story that can’t be written in listicle format, but her instincts about Beth, at least, are spot on.
  — Caroline Framke, Variety, 14 Oct. 2021
• So those have been covered in many a previous listicle.
  — Matt Wake | [e-mail], al, 26 Mar. 2020
• But the real journey is anything but fast and would be impossible to write as a BuzzFeed listicle.
  — Jes Baker, SELF, 26 June 2018
• Al Lubran, who sent me a recent listicle from an ad-riddled British aggregator site called The Poke.
  — Pat Myers, Washington Post, 11 Aug. 2022
• Buzzfeed published a listicle of reasons why people disliked the star.
  — Rebecca Farley, refinery29.com, 29 May 2018
• Especially for Warriors fans who get some love from this listicle.
  — Gary Peterson, The Mercury News, 23 July 2019
• Over the last 40 years, as politicians and parents and perky magazine listicles have been telling us to study hard and build our personal brands, the entire economy has transformed beneath us.
  — Michelle Legro, Longreads, 19 Dec. 2017
• The Oscars even created a listicle of Kimmel's seven best moments at the 89th Academy Awards.
  — The Tylt, cleveland.com, 19 Feb. 2018
• In fact, a whole lot of the quotes that litter these popular listicles are either completely fabricated or taken out of context.
  — WIRED, 10 Mar. 2023
• Neither man had listicles, Instagram and TikTok influencers to help turn them into stars.
  — Tim Carman, Washington Post, 31 Aug. 2023
• BuzzFeed News, the Pulitzer Prize-winning news website known for popularizing listicles, is shutting down.
  — Swapna Venugopal Ramaswamy, USA TODAY, 20 Apr. 2023
• Instead, women were given the listicle treatment: an easy way for an outlet to appear to cover female musicians, without the hard work of devoting actual words and thought to them.
  — Peter Rubin, Longreads, 1 July 2022
• The song’s English-language hook is a listicle of everyday objects manufactured in China.
  — Leor Galil, Chicago Reader, 16 Feb. 2018
• The Believer’s Web site published a listicle of dating sites, to widespread mockery, before being sold back to its original owner, the publisher McSweeney’s.
  — Kyle Chayka, The New Yorker, 19 Dec. 2022
• The Internet abounds with listicles detailing his macho feats of cinema.
  — Joseph Hincks / Hong Kong, Time, 4 Apr. 2018
• Vice pour-over ethical semiotics locavore chia listicle shabby chic umami 3 wolf moon brunch.
  — Aaron Jansen, Alaska Dispatch News, 19 July 2017
• The listicle structure is surprisingly expansive in Gallen’s hands.
  — Washington Post, 2 Dec. 2020
• But even if only a few of these players ultimately set up shop here, the groundswell of interest means Detroit is truly becoming a hot restaurant market on the national level — and not just in fawning travel listicles.
  — Mark Kurlyandchik, Detroit Free Press, 3 Jan. 2018
• There are online listicles detailing the annoying things riders do — eating smelly foods, vaping, not tipping well — to help riders brush up on Uber etiquette, but questions of decorum are subject to debate.
  — Travis Deshong, Washington Post, 18 July 2019
• Your story can be a listicle or an in-depth look at a particular activity in a destination so long as there is an inspiration and service element.
  — Travel + Leisure, 1 Mar. 2022
• Your story can be a listicle or an in-depth look at a particular activity in a destination so long as there is an inspiration and service element.
  — Travel + Leisure Editors, Travel + Leisure, 6 Apr. 2023
• Unlike similar projects, Martin eschews the listicle format for an interwoven narrative that takes readers across the country.
  — Mark Kurlyandchik, Detroit Free Press, 4 May 2020
• There is widespread obsession with untranslatable words, as countless listicle-makers can attest.
  — Katy Steinmetz, Time, 8 May 2018
• BuzzFeed, the internet news site that popularized the listicle and broke major political and entertainment news, is the subject of an upcoming documentary from Kelsey Darragh, a former staffer and filmmaker.
  — Brent Lang, Variety, 17 Nov. 2022
• BuzzFeed’s content was edgier and aimed at a younger demographic of digital natives who embraced the company’s stories about culture and its popular listicles, puzzles and personality quizzes that were designed to get traction on social media.
  — Stephen Battaglio, Los Angeles Times, 20 Apr. 2023

Last Updated: 22 Aug 2024