How to Use megahit in a Sentence

megahit

noun
  • His latest movie was a megahit.
  • The company knows these won't be a megahit, and a spokesperson says that's OK.
    Arielle Pardes, WIRED, 13 Aug. 2019
  • Yazbek didn’t grow up dreaming of writing the next Broadway megahit.
    Rebecca Milzoff, Billboard, 2 Nov. 2017
  • News of a show based on the megahit book series first leaked on April 3, but details have now been confirmed.
    Angelique Jackson, Variety, 12 Apr. 2023
  • Last week: Spider-Man launches the age of the superhero megahit.
    Darren Franich, EW.com, 10 May 2022
  • Starlight Theatre Elice argues that the stories, as well as the music, carry the megahit shows.
    Kate Miller, kansascity, 21 June 2017
  • News of a show based on the megahit J.K. Rowling book series first leaked on April 3, but details have now been confirmed.
    Joe Otterson, Variety, 12 Apr. 2023
  • From his home in Northeast London, Rowland tells us the whole story behind the beloved megahit.
    Liza Lentini, Spin, 15 Aug. 2023
  • Sony’s studios growing from small to megahit producers took a decade, in some instances.
    Paul Tassi, Forbes, 11 Apr. 2021
  • The Kansas City summer theater scene has gone retro with a spate of megahit jukebox musicals.
    Kate Miller, kansascity.com, 21 June 2017
  • The Last of Us is the storied channel’s latest breakout megahit, here’s a fun new bit of data to join its rave reviews and high premiere numbers.
    Paul Tassi, Forbes, 24 Jan. 2023
  • Ballerini took the stage solo, singing from a couch before Kahan launched into his megahit amidst tall grass.
    Tomás Mier, Rolling Stone, 16 May 2024
  • The megahit Paramount Network show will resume production on the final episodes of its fifth and final season in late spring 2024.
    Joe Otterson, Variety, 16 Nov. 2023
  • Where will PopCap Games’ megahit puzzle game Bejeweled pop up next?
    Earnest Cavalli, WIRED, 19 Sep. 2008
  • After Netflix picked up You from Lifetime in 2018, the show about a murderous psychopath became a megahit and spawned three more seasons.
    Jihane Bousfiha, Men's Health, 20 Jan. 2023
  • Guards in ‘Squid Game,’ which has become an unexpected megahit for Netflix.
    Timothy W. Martin, WSJ, 6 Oct. 2021
  • Guests clamored for selfies with Peacock’s megahit stars and asked for insights about the shocking finale that brought in huge viewership.
    Elizabeth Taylor, Variety, 11 Mar. 2024
  • The Disney megahit, which has surpassed $1 billion at the global box office, features a black king of a highly-advanced African kingdom.
    Kevin Rector, baltimoresun.com, 13 Mar. 2018
  • Swift — who is a big fan of the ballroom bash and has previously performed on the show — is currently wrapping up the South American leg of her megahit Eras Tour.
    Anna Chan, Billboard, 22 Nov. 2023
  • Shows, save for maybe megahits like Stranger Things, start to lose their ability to attract new subscribers after a certain number of years, and their value goes down.
    Angela Watercutter, WIRED, 13 Nov. 2023
  • Lacoste’s new cologne smells like cloves and pine, and Gabriella Sabatini’s megahit in the 1980s was a disco floral that smelled like being drunk on vacation.
    Longreads, 9 Jan. 2018
  • The respective verses of Caesar and Giveon are true to their distinct styles but come together seamlessly with Bieber to form an easy, catchy megahit.
    Christopher Rosa, Glamour, 24 Dec. 2021
  • Ortega, 21, found herself a first-time nominee at the Emmys this year thanks to her megahit series Wednesday.
    Dana Rose Falcone, Peoplemag, 16 Jan. 2024
  • McCallum’s opening lines serve as a definitive aspect of the hip-hop megahit.
    Althea Legaspi, Rolling Stone, 25 Sep. 2023
  • Everything about the megahit competition singing show The Masked Singer is outrageous.
    Kelsey Hurwitz, Woman's Day, 31 Jan. 2020
  • Aggressive cost cutting has blackened JLR's balance sheets, but the company needs a megahit.
    Mike Duff, Car and Driver, 16 Apr. 2020
  • The streaming giant seems to be leaning hard into action movies with big-name stars, given this film and last month's megahit, Extraction, starring Chris Hemsworth.
    Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 21 May 2020
  • The international megahits, the Cats successors, got good.
    Jesse Oxfeld, Town & Country, 1 Aug. 2016
  • Every good young actor vacuumed up by a superhero franchise or a megahit movie series costs us a fresh star persona.
    Wesley Morris, New York Times, 19 May 2016
  • The South Korean show, with a relatively low cost of $21.4 million, underscores the windfall that one megahit can generate in the streaming era.
    Bloomberg.com, 17 Oct. 2021

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