How to Use tentpole in a Sentence

tentpole

noun

• Amid this cast, Cruise is the tentpole that holds up this film.
  — Luke MacY, The Enquirer, 11 July 2023
• And by the new year, tentpole is aiming to hit the $1 billion mark.
  — Rebecca Rubin, Variety, 21 Dec. 2022
• For better or worse, the majors are the tentpole events.
  — Jon Wertheim, SI.com, 25 Oct. 2017
• But the law reached well beyond the tentpoles of the gig economy.
  — Chris Morris, Fortune, 3 Oct. 2019
• There’s been such a push and pull about wanting tentpole movies and then small movies.
  — Times Staff, Los Angeles Times, 16 Mar. 2021
• This will be his first take on a tentpole franchise film.
  — Christian Holub, EW.com, 10 Aug. 2020
• On May 5, Marvel's Blade became the first tentpole film to succumb to the strike.
  — Lester Fabian Brathwaite, EW.com, 7 May 2023
• Major studios have pushed back their tentpoles to the fall or, in many cases, all the way to 2021.
  — Jeva Lange, TheWeek, 22 Apr. 2020
• There were simply no tentpole events to build the story around.
  — Eric Ravenscraft, WIRED, 4 Sep. 2023
• Some new titles are still on the way, but there aren't many wave-making tentpoles.
  — Eric Ravenscraft, WIRED, 18 Oct. 2024
• But this is still the tentpole of them all, the 2002 flick that really defined the style of these vicious ghost movies.
  — Brian Tallerico, Vulture, 16 Jan. 2021
• This year, Amazon did not have any tentpole shows that broke into the top 0.2% of shows in the U.S. based on demand.
  — Wendy Lee, Los Angeles Times, 29 Sep. 2021
• Squadrons is the first major tentpole game from a publisher this size to come to VR⁠—at least on PC.
  — Hayden Dingman, PCWorld, 15 June 2020
• For tapas fans who watched the city’s two tentpole tapas spots close permanently in the past year, Brasa Haya fills a void.
  — Michael Russell, oregonlive, 1 Sep. 2021
• Mackie, a tentpole in the history of camp's place in fashion, is serving on the board of this year's Gala.
  — Carrie Goldberg, Harper's BAZAAR, 7 May 2019
• With no tentpole movies to lure them in, audiences have even more reasons to stay away.
  — Cara Buckley, New York Times, 27 Oct. 2020
• The tentpole is opening offshore two weeks ahead of its June 22 domestic launch to avoid a showdown with the World Cup.
  — Pamela McClintock, The Hollywood Reporter, 10 June 2018
• The last thing either pricey tentpole wants to deal with is a still-robust Chinese blockbuster stealing the show.
  — Scott Mendelson, Forbes, 8 Oct. 2021
• The two actors are longtime friends off screen and now play even longer-time lovers in Marvel's latest tentpole.
  — Devan Coggan, EW.com, 15 Oct. 2021
• As spring becomes summer, the holiday weekend serves a tentpole to take stock of the season to date.
  — Gabe Lacques, USA TODAY, 29 May 2022
• Which is not to say its episodes are stopgaps, secondary pursuits to mark the time while the studio works on its next tentpole release.
  — Alexander Chatziioannou, Washington Post, 7 Nov. 2022
• Ever since its tentpole, , bolted to go co-ed at LFW the schedule has been shrinking.
  — Luke Leitch, Vogue, 3 Jan. 2020
• Over the course of the Queen Elizabeth's nearly 70-year reign, her speeches have become tentpoles for the British public to mark the passing of time.
  — Caroline Hallemann, Town & Country, 19 Aug. 2018
• Could Gadot carry a summer tentpole movie in her first leading role?
  — James Hibberd, PEOPLE.com, 25 Dec. 2017
• Elsewhere on the schedule, there are tentpole shows aplenty.
  — Luke Leitch, Vogue, 23 May 2022
• The ’zon tends to slash prices on the best vibrators for tentpole sales, and this October Prime Day is no different.
  — Andrea Navarro, Glamour, 11 Oct. 2023
• Hard Times Return Elsewhere, though, things were rough for other would-be tentpoles.
  — Mark Hughes, Forbes, 6 Sep. 2024
• But Sarhangi says few have made ease of use for everyone and anyone a tentpole of their services.
  — Declan Harty, Fortune, 14 July 2022
• The director, who cut his teeth making genre indies, had long dreamed of helming a big tentpole movie.
  — Tracy Brown, Los Angeles Times, 29 Mar. 2024
• On top of that, the NBA frequently invites its biggest name collaborators to tentpole moments.
  — Jacob Feldman, Sportico.com, 27 Oct. 2024

Last Updated: 11 Dec 2024