How to Use publicity stunt in a Sentence

publicity stunt

noun

• There were 55 of them made, and Chrysler rolled them out as a sort of publicity stunt.
  — Liam Rappleye, Detroit Free Press, 16 Aug. 2024
• But as of right now, this is just the best-case scenario, but this is not a publicity stunt.
  — Charna Flam, Peoplemag, 15 Mar. 2024
• At one point during all of this, Anger took out an ad in the Village Voice proclaiming his own death, as a publicity stunt.
  — Vulture, 27 May 2023
• The publicity stunt was among a long line of disruptive acts by Just Stop Oil to draw attention to the climate crisis.
  — Brian Melley, The Christian Science Monitor, 20 June 2024
• Officially known as Richard Booth, the man clearly knew the power of a good publicity stunt.
  — Abbie Kozolchyk, Condé Nast Traveler, 23 Apr. 2024
• But that doesn’t mean laser-tattooing fruit is only a publicity stunt.
  — Amanda Gerut, Fortune Europe, 31 May 2024
• Her appearances at his games have spiked TV ratings and led to some claims of a publicity stunt due to just how public the romance is — but Swift affirmed to Time that that couldn’t be further from the truth.
  — Ellise Shafer, Variety, 6 Dec. 2023
• Meanwhile, one of the most positive recent changes to the bridge was a publicity stunt from a porta-potty company.
  — Curbed, 27 Jan. 2023
• Skeptics wonder why such an elusive creature would pop a squat by a train route frequented by hundreds of tourists if not for a prank or a publicity stunt.
  — Dac Collins, Outdoor Life, 10 Oct. 2023
• The coach has heard the inevitable tongue-clucking from other coaches that signing Enmanuel was merely a publicity stunt.
  — Billy Witz, New York Times, 5 Mar. 2023
• The publicity stunt takes inspiration from the viral costume memes that both brands have tapped into in recent years.
  — Francisco Velasquez, Quartz, 4 Sep. 2024
• In a statement, Fox Corp. criticized the judge’s decision, casting it as a publicity stunt.
  — Jennifer Maas, Variety, 5 Apr. 2023
• Paris’ mayor made a public show of swimming in the river earlier this month, something Duran called a publicity stunt.
  — Marco Quiroz-Gutierrez, Fortune Europe, 31 July 2024
• Amid the confusion, some people have a theory that this is all a cryptocurrency publicity stunt.
  — Elizabeth Robinson, NBC News, 11 Aug. 2023
• In 1959, a newlywed couple spent their two-week honeymoon sealed in a Miami fallout shelter as a publicity stunt.
  — Mark Dent, thehustle.co, 31 May 2024
• Beaujolais nouveaux are an annual gimmick, something of a publicity stunt, easy come, easy go.
  — Florence Fabricant, New York Times, 23 Oct. 2023
• In a publicity stunt, Wagner’s leader Prigozhin even recorded himself on combat mission in the navigator’s seat of an Su-24.
  — Sébastien Roblin, Popular Mechanics, 11 May 2023
• As with the 1951 Explorers Club dinner, the mammoth meatball is a publicity stunt meant to draw attention to the potential of cultured meat to replace animal agriculture.
  — David Reamer | Alaska History, Anchorage Daily News, 7 May 2023
• What started as a one-off publicity stunt turned into a beloved cultural institution.
  — Amanda Rosa, Miami Herald, 14 Feb. 2024
• Rolling Stone reported that the Instagram statement on her profile appeared to coincide with its launch, which caused some online to suspect he could be involved in a publicity stunt relating to the announcement of her death.
  — Angela Yang, NBC News, 11 Aug. 2023
• Some people suspect your parent’s separation is a publicity stunt or find the timing a little too convenient.
  — Yvonne Villarreal, Los Angeles Times, 26 Mar. 2024
• Others are peddling theories that the weekend comments are a publicity stunt to promote her upcoming album.
  — Uwa Ede-Osifo, NBC News, 27 July 2023
• Many in the fusion-energy community dismissed it as a publicity stunt, or at best an overoptimistic reach for a company that has yet to demonstrate a net energy gain from its reactions.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 15 Oct. 2023
• Republicans called it a publicity stunt and criticized Newsom for not going far enough on enforcement.
  — Doug Smith, Los Angeles Times, 25 July 2024
• But the announcement met with skepticism from customers and industry observers, who regarded it as a publicity stunt ahead of an earnings call, rather than a sign that deliveries were imminent.
  — Simon Willis, Fortune, 27 July 2023
• Democrats accuse Republicans of targeting Mayorkas as a publicity stunt to draw attention to their complaints about President Biden’s handling of the border.
  — Dave Goldiner, New York Daily News, 16 Apr. 2024
• Democrats blasted the idea widely as a publicity stunt, but conservative Republicans had a strongly different view.
  — Christopher Keating, Hartford Courant, 26 Feb. 2023
• But others derided the plan as a detail-thin publicity stunt and criticized the governor for vetoing a bill in 2022 that would have allowed supervised injection site programs in California’s major cities.
  — Salvador Hernandez, Los Angeles Times, 24 Apr. 2023
• Studios generally held their noses at aggressive campaigning, but Weinstein, unable to compete with their budgets, wasn’t above a shameless publicity stunt.
  — Irina Aleksander, New York Times, 8 Mar. 2023
• Under the ever expanding media panopticon, celebrities like Jayne Mansfield and Marilyn Monroe refined the art of the publicity stunt throughout the 1960s to produce a mythology surrounding themselves that ascended beyond tabloid fodder.
  — Colin Scanlon, Redbook, 4 Aug. 2023

Last Updated: 17 Dec 2024