How to Use show business in a Sentence

show business

noun

• She has been in show business for over 30 years.
• That and the show business aspect of it in which there’s a pageantry to it.
  — John Benson, cleveland, 10 Dec. 2022
• That’s a rule of show business.’ Who was I to break a rule of show business?
  — Natalie Stone, PEOPLE.com, 26 Mar. 2018
• Such is the world of show business in the internet age.
  — Clarence Page, chicagotribune.com, 5 Apr. 2022
• The hardest work man in show business had the earnings to prove it.
  — Jasmine Browley, Essence, 2 Aug. 2022
• That’s so typical of the ups and downs of show business.
  — Paul Grein, Billboard, 28 Aug. 2020
• Even by the loose standards of show business, Covid-19 has made things weird.
  — Ryan Nguyen, WSJ, 18 Aug. 2021
• Batiste and the hardest-working soul band in show business messed around and changed the whole list.
  — Paul De Revere, Billboard, 30 Apr. 2018
• And he’s got like 25 years [in show business] on Amber.
  — Elizabeth Wagmeister, Variety, 16 Aug. 2023
• And that would be the end of Doris’ fledgling show business career.
  — Vincent T. Davis, San Antonio Express-News, 22 June 2018
• His mother, who wrote books, would have liked to be in show business.
  — Maureen Dowd, New York Times, 29 Oct. 2022
• But that doesn’t mean he has been exiled to the show business wilderness.
  — Todd Longwell, Variety, 9 May 2024
• Over the course of six decades in show business, Valerie Harper played dozens of roles.
  — Judy Berman, Time, 5 Sep. 2019
• Bought by RKO-Pathe, the 16-minute film would help launch their show business careers.
  — Chris Koseluk, The Hollywood Reporter, 18 Feb. 2023
• Salma Hayek is perhaps one of the busiest women in show business.
  — Hannah Coates, Vogue, 9 July 2024
• But Jinx was best known for her career in show business.
  — New York Times, 11 Jan. 2022
• In 1991, there were few bigger names in show business than Michael J. Fox.
  — Analisa Novak, CBS News, 8 Dec. 2021
• Best of all, his heart was big enough to love all of show business and every person in it.
  — Marc Berman, Forbes, 15 Aug. 2024
• Of course, the home of show business topped the list for having the most filming locations.
  — Cailey Rizzo, Travel + Leisure, 5 Feb. 2022
• The children went on to their own show business careers.
  — Bruce Haring, Deadline, 18 July 2024
• All this helped The Hours become a show business event on a scale few new operas can hope for.
  — Adam Kirsch, The New York Review of Books, 19 Jan. 2023
• At 29 years old, Palmer has already racked up two decades in show business.
  — Yvonne Villarrealstaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 6 Dec. 2022
• The late Gene Autry also moved from show business to baseball.
  — Dan Schlossberg, Forbes, 23 Dec. 2021
• That’s where the L.A. siblings escape the demands of show business.
  — Armond White, National Review, 24 Mar. 2021
• Right out the gate, show business was a tremendous source of parody and satire for you.
  — Jesse David Fox, Vulture, 16 Sep. 2021
• Quibi, imagined as a kind of Uber for television, turned out to be the Juicero of show business.
  — New York Times, 24 Apr. 2020
• And that’s one of the visual themes of the special, is American show business.
  — Rachel Yang, EW.com, 11 Dec. 2019
• The hardest working man in show business has one less gig.
  — Gil Kaufman, Billboard, 16 Feb. 2023
• Set in the 1920s, Chicago is a scathing satire of how show business and the media make celebrities out of criminals.
  — Sigal Ratner-Arias, Billboard, 27 Nov. 2024
• There's no business like show business, but a tragic death in Jaleel White's professional life almost threw him off course.
  — Edward Segarra, USA TODAY, 26 Nov. 2024

Last Updated: 11 Jan 2025