How to Use top billing in a Sentence

top billing

noun
  • The Ant-Man 3 poster gives Bill Murray top billing for the movie.
    Chris Smith, BGR, 28 Nov. 2022
  • The master suite gets top billing, with a 75-square-ft.
    Julia Zaltzman, Robb Report, 11 Nov. 2022
  • Your passions are able to take the top billing right now!
    Chicago Tribune, 2 Sep. 2022
  • The red rose takes top billing as the symbol of beauty and love.
    Betty Cahill, The Denver Post, 13 Feb. 2024
  • The text, which has taken top billing against my will, reigns supreme.
    Anne Roderique-Jones, SELF, 29 Apr. 2018
  • Ant-Man may get top billing, but Hope is the one driving the action.
    Angela Watercutter, WIRED, 5 July 2018
  • That’s a switch from May 2017, when the economy got top billing.
    Christine Mai-Duc, latimes.com, 24 June 2018
  • Just look at the actors with top billing in the biggest franchise films these days: the Pratts and the Hemsworths, the Pines and the Evanses.
    Shirley Li, EW.com, 1 Sep. 2017
  • The Trojans’ top freshmen haven’t lived up to their top billing just yet.
    Ryan Kartje, Los Angeles Times, 14 Oct. 2021
  • The next year, in France, Lopez was given top billing with The Beatles.
    CBS News, 24 July 2020
  • Sharing top billing with the Pence, at least from Israel's point of view, will be Putin.
    Oren Liebermann, CNN, 22 Jan. 2020
  • But right up there getting top billing is the creamy coconut-milk broth.
    San Diego Union-Tribune, 17 Dec. 2021
  • Before long, White earned the top billing, racking up more than 40 beers in just a few months.
    Washington Post, 17 Jan. 2022
  • Markov got top billing on the poster, but Grier got top billing onscreen.
    Odie Henderson, Vulture, 4 Mar. 2024
  • That’s because top billing goes to the party of the state’s governor.
    Bobby Caina Calvan, BostonGlobe.com, 29 Apr. 2020
  • Their endorsements alone are enough to give said item top billing on my wish list.
    ELLE, 12 May 2022
  • Martin Lawrence smacks Will Smith in the face not once, not twice, but three times, so that the man with top billing can shake it off and get back to the killing.
    Michael Phillips, Twin Cities, 7 June 2024
  • The writer gets top billing, the researcher gathers the facts, and at least a little, the researcher gets to keep the writer alive.
    Detroit Free Press, 23 Oct. 2022
  • But there’s a new magician in town this week, and he’s taken top billing in Sin City.
    Dieter Kurtenbach, The Mercury News, 10 Feb. 2024
  • This is because the mainstream press has ceased giving Afghanistan top billing.
    Ryan Cooper, The Week, 1 Nov. 2021
  • This year’s performance marks Coldplay’s fifth time with top billing, making the band the first act to do so.
    Ellise Shafer, Variety, 29 June 2024
  • Clare, acting as Irene’s foil, is messy and gives her basest of impulses top billing in her life.
    Brittany Luse, Vulture, 18 Oct. 2021
  • Other people are about to start taking top billing in your life.
    Tarot Astrologers, chicagotribune.com, 27 Mar. 2022
  • Although rage is the passion that gets top billing in the book, it is made to share the stage with another feeling: shame.
    Merve Emre, The New Yorker, 18 Sep. 2023
  • The big gifts under the tree may get top billing, but quality stocking stuffers can pack just as much of a punch.
    Leigh-Ann Jackson, wsj.com, 19 Oct. 2023
  • While the cheesesteak gets top billing, don’t forget about the enormous turkey hoagie.
    Nick Kindelsperger, chicagotribune.com, 30 Oct. 2020
  • While pho gets the top billing, the other main entree option is Hainan-style chicken rice.
    Nick Kindelsperger, chicagotribune.com, 11 Dec. 2019
  • The content that did receive top billing on the platform was a mixture of celebrity news, meme pages and Reels videos.
    Jeff Horwitz, WSJ, 22 Nov. 2022
  • Get your squat form locked down, use dynamic movements to get those quads and glutes ready for top billing.
    Brett Williams, Men's Health, 25 May 2023
  • Epstein agreed to the terms but insisted that the Beatles get top billing for both shows.
    Glenn Frankel, Washington Post, 4 Feb. 2024

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