How to Use matinee in a Sentence

matinee

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• That shot was the go-ahead hit that beat the Bombers 7-4 in the matinee finale in the Bronx.
  — Kristie Ackert, courant.com, 6 May 2021
• The place is packed and the audience is rapt for the matinee.
  — Peter Marks, Washington Post, 21 Oct. 2022
• Great marks, but the good times were had by all in this matinee.
  — Joseph Goodman | [e-mail], al, 14 Feb. 2021
• The Giants need to win Thursday’s matinee to avoid a four-game sweep.
  — John Shea, San Francisco Chronicle, 1 Sep. 2021
• Tipoff has been rescheduled from a 3 p.m. matinee to the usual 7 p.m.
  — Eric Walden, The Salt Lake Tribune, 21 Jan. 2021
• There was a shot to turn the Thursday matinee back to favoring the home dugout.
  — Sam Cohn, Baltimore Sun, 13 June 2024
• Or matinee fodder for the likes of Niels Bohr and Erwin Schrödinger.
  — Robert Abele, Los Angeles Times, 11 Oct. 2024
• The Blue Jackets will stay in town for a Sunday matinee.
  — Dana Gauruder, Detroit Free Press, 28 Mar. 2021
• There will be a talk with the cast after each Sunday matinee.
  — Hartford Courant, 22 June 2022
• Shows start at 7:30 p.m. both nights, with a 3 p.m. matinee on Friday.
  — Sean P. Means, The Salt Lake Tribune, 25 Dec. 2022
• But even a matinee is going to be a different crowd than the evening.
  — Christopher Arnott, Hartford Courant, 23 June 2022
• So, what’s the best way to bet Thursday’s Summit League matinee?
  — Tanner McGrath, Chicago Tribune, 23 Feb. 2023
• There will be a talk back with the cast after each Sunday matinee.
  — courant.com, 6 Jan. 2022
• The genre-blending Julius Rodriguez plays a matinee at 2 p.m., free via twitch.tv\therelixchannel.
  — Gary Graff, cleveland, 18 May 2022
• The crew is away from this haunted riverboat for this matinee.
  — Luann Gibbs, The Enquirer, 19 Sep. 2024
• The Easter Sunday edition will stream on Mandolin at 2 p.m. for the matinee show and 8 p.m. for the evening show.
  — Heran Mamo, Billboard, 2 Apr. 2021
• Kansas City won three out of four games in the series that ended with a hot matinee.
  — David Smale, Star Tribune, 29 July 2021
• The cast had been wrapping up a Friday matinee when the announcement came in.
  — Christopher Bonanos, Vulture, 27 Nov. 2021
• After the matinee, the theater put on an Easter egg scavenger hunt for all of us girls.
  — Beanie Feldstein, Variety, 18 Oct. 2023
• Rivera drolly recalled the tsking of matinee ladies at the song’s mildly naughty lyrics.
  — Charles McNultytheater Critic, Los Angeles Times, 12 Dec. 2022
• Taft began Friday's matinee slowly for the crowd of 3,717.
  — Scott Springer, The Enquirer, 18 Mar. 2022
• The Phillies won on Tuesday, 2-0, and will head home after Wednesday’s matinee with no worse than a split — and a chance to clinch the pennant at home.
  — Tyler Kepner, New York Times, 19 Oct. 2022
• Additionally, two shows have been added to the run, one at 8 p.m. Oct. 2 and a matinee at 2 p.m. Oct. 4.
  — Staff Report, NOLA.com, 14 Sep. 2020
• The Knicks return home on Saturday for a matinee matchup against the Brooklyn Nets.
  — Kristian Winfield, New York Daily News, 14 June 2024
• The Mavericks looked for the three-game sweep back in Wichita in a Sunday matinee.
  — Zach Welch, Kansas City Star, 5 Feb. 2024
• Dance artist Mohzart rocks the house with a 3 p.m. virtual matinee.
  — Gary Graff, cleveland, 1 June 2022
• There was just school, comic books and the Saturday matinee.
  — Matt Donnelly, Variety, 16 May 2024
• But their matinee game against the Chicago Bulls at Accor Arena fell flat.
  — Detroit Free Press, 20 Jan. 2023
• Then, on Wednesday, Sept. 11, Timberlake was joined by three other friends to watch the play’s matinee showing.
  — Charna Flam, Peoplemag, 13 Sep. 2024
• This allows the company to have programs throughout lunch and matinee hours when live sports may not be available.
  — Jessica Golden, CNBC, 28 Oct. 2024

Last Updated: 26 Nov 2024