How to Use meta in a Sentence

meta

adjective

• Is any of that true, IRL, or in meta life, or is Jackson putting us on?
  — Chris Willman, Variety, 28 June 2024
• The hats are meta, because the mascots are hats themselves.
  — Samantha Chery, Washington Post, 30 July 2024
• As has frequently been the case with the show, the spirit takes a meta approach to his wisdom.
  — Daniel Fienberg, The Hollywood Reporter, 27 Sep. 2023
• But there’s another, more meta theme of movies about movies this year.
  — Michael O'Sullivan, Washington Post, 3 Nov. 2022
• That meta spin won’t stop anyone from singing it around a bonfire.
  — Nate Jones, Vulture, 20 May 2024
• So Deadpool gets a new costume and, in meta fashion, agrees to leave his timeline for the MCU.
  — Brian Truitt, USA TODAY, 12 Apr. 2024
• The gathering proved to be a meta affair, more about process than substance.
  — Paul Elie, The New Yorker, 8 Nov. 2023
• Take a meta-level view of the situation and share it with the other person.
  — Sabine Gromer, Forbes, 17 Mar. 2023
• The trend reached a nadir with Mindy Kaling’s exhaustingly meta Velma, on Max.
  — Judy Berman, Time, 21 July 2023
• Score a set of four 6-inch bowls in the signature green, a set of beige dinner plates, or even a cabbage salad bowl, for the meta crowd.
  — Betsy Cribb, Southern Living, 1 Apr. 2021
• Is there a meta element to being an actor on this show?
  — Marlow Stern, Rolling Stone, 12 Dec. 2022
• But the miracle of Rochon's storytelling is that her books are that for her readers in the most meta sense.
  — Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 30 Aug. 2022
• As a fun bit of meta trivia, Timely's name refers not just to Kang's time travel, but to the original name of Marvel Comics.
  — Christian Holub, EW.com, 22 Feb. 2023
• But with a pleasingly meta approach, Warzel tries to answer his own question.
  — Longreads, 25 Aug. 2023
• The story was about his newest movie, which has a meta quality to it: Nic plays himself at different stages of his life.
  — Amanda Webster, New York Times, 12 Dec. 2022
• To be fair, Ewell does have something bigger on his mind, a meta plot twist that certainly could have injected a jolt of life into the book.
  — Stuart Miller, Los Angeles Times, 9 Feb. 2024
• Beneath that of course is a smart satire and a meta level that provides room for discussions afterward.
  — Ed Meza, Variety, 30 Oct. 2023
• Galaxy Quest is a rare perfect film: a masterful satire with clever twists, wickedly funny, and so very meta.
  — Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 18 Apr. 2023
• Diane von Furstenberg has a meta fashion moment in this chic kaftan design with her face on it.
  — Brittany Talarico, Peoplemag, 7 Nov. 2022
• In a bit of meta casting, both Ritter and Justin Timberlake appeared in guest roles — which were kept secret — alongside their wives.
  — Jackie Strause, The Hollywood Reporter, 17 Mar. 2023
• If that was too meta for you, feel free to focus instead on the sartorial spectacle.
  — Lisa Respers France, CNN, 14 Jan. 2023
• The meta premise adds an artistic layer tying the disparate games together.
  — PCMAG, 12 Oct. 2024
• The film starts off as a straight homage to Herrington’s film peppered with one too many meta textual references.
  — Lovia Gyarkye, The Hollywood Reporter, 8 Mar. 2024
• With numerous nostalgic moments and meta references, the show went back to its roots in many ways this season — right down to the final scene.
  — Kelsie Gibson, Peoplemag, 9 Aug. 2023
• This time out, the script is also filled with amusing meta references, many of them thanks to a podcast being made about the making of last season’s podcast.
  — Matthew Gilbert, BostonGlobe.com, 28 June 2022
• There’s no sly wink on the other side or another line about Fletcher’s love of signing boobs or being meta about sleeping with her ex.
  — Waiss David Aramesh, Rolling Stone, 17 Sep. 2022
• Each of the installments are a perfect blend of horror and tongue-in-cheek meta humor, films that aren't afraid to not take themselves too seriously.
  — Stacey Grant, Seventeen, 10 Mar. 2023
• In the theatre itself, Berlant’s arrival is preceded by more meta antics.
  — Alexandra Schwartz, The New Yorker, 28 Sep. 2022
• But while this premise may sound like the type of meta, kooky concept that Black Mirror once had delicious fun with, the resulting story is inert.
  — Shirley Li, The Atlantic, 17 June 2023
• Given the film’s content, the meta nature of the moment — art imitating life, imitating art — was lost on no one involved in the project.
  — Patrick Brzeski, The Hollywood Reporter, 9 Oct. 2024

Last Updated: 9 Jun 2024