How to Use trilogy in a Sentence

trilogy

noun
  • The Three-Body Problem is the first in a trilogy that spans, in the end, millions of years.
    Vanessa Armstrong, Vulture, 27 July 2023
  • The next trilogy of episodes are focused on the Big Three.
    Karen Mizoguchi, PEOPLE.com, 8 Mar. 2022
  • This is the flick that started it all in The Hunger Games trilogy.
    Samantha Olson, Seventeen, 29 Aug. 2022
  • And that’s a picture wrap on the Guardians of the Galaxy trilogy.
    Zack Sharf, Variety, 10 May 2022
  • The other two options take all the air out of the trilogy.
    Lance Pugmire, USA TODAY, 9 Apr. 2022
  • This the first in a trilogy, based on Jenny Han's books.
    Stacey Grant, Seventeen, 22 Apr. 2023
  • When the first book in the trilogy was published in 2009, most of its readers were young teens.
    Malia Mendez, Los Angeles Times, 19 Aug. 2023
  • That’s a new price record for the second leg in the trilogy of the modern reboot.
    Quentyn Kennemer, The Verge, 2 Oct. 2024
  • This version of Spidey didn't even make it to a trilogy.
    Good Housekeeping, 6 Apr. 2023
  • But those kids have grown up, and those movies are now their ‘Star Wars’ trilogy.
    Glenn Whipp, Los Angeles Times, 17 June 2024
  • The trilogy fight between the two saw Shevchenko walk away from UFC 306 with the title back in her hands.
    Trent Reinsmith, Forbes, 17 Mar. 2025
  • The one that took me by surprise, though, was the second trilogy.
    Kaitlyn Bancroft, The Salt Lake Tribune, 21 Oct. 2021
  • The world’s favorite plush bear is back to complete the film trilogy.
    Samantha Bergeson, IndieWire, 12 June 2024
  • Sony purchased the rights to adapt the Broken Earth trilogy as films.
    Christian Holub, EW.com, 29 Oct. 2021
  • The answer is Oak Mountain, and the trilogy of terror hasn’t been kind to the Eagles.
    Bill Lumpkin Iii, al, 28 Oct. 2021
  • The film is a reboot of the film trilogy that launched with Dungeons & Dragons (2000).
    Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 22 July 2022
  • Needless to say, though, the original trilogy are the ones to seek out.
    WIRED, 23 Sep. 2022
  • The beloved The Santa Clause trilogy is back, this time in the form of a television series.
    Maggie Horton, Country Living, 5 Sep. 2022
  • But, Philibert explained, the trilogy was not part of a plan.
    Lise Pedersen, Variety, 22 May 2024
  • The new album is billed as the second part of a trilogy that began with last year’s BB/Ang3l.
    Matthew Strauss, Pitchfork, 28 June 2024
  • The Matrix Online picked up where the film trilogy left off.
    Richard Newby, Vulture, 23 Dec. 2021
  • Of the trilogy, The Sea Around Us is by far the most vivid and intoxicating.
    Amy Brady, Scientific American, 19 Nov. 2021
  • Of course, some of our favorite characters from the trilogy will reprise their roles for the new spin off.
    Maggie Horton, Country Living, 5 Sep. 2022
  • When The Force Awakens arrived at the end of 2015, there was still high hopes among fans for the trilogy helmed by Disney.
    Christiaan Hetzner, Fortune, 28 May 2024
  • Based on the books of the same name by young adult horror author R.L. Stine, this trilogy of films is all set in the cursed town of Shadyside.
    Therese Odell, Chron, 19 Oct. 2021
  • But that wasn’t the first remark made about a sequel trilogy.
    Leah Campano, Seventeen, 2 Feb. 2022
  • It’s also perhaps the saddest game of the Dark Souls trilogy, if not the entire genre.
    Washington Post, 26 Apr. 2022
  • All the Boys trilogy should look out for the next screen adaptation of Jenny Han's beloved books.
    Melissa Giannini, ELLE, 18 May 2022
  • For decades, the thing that so many fans of the original trilogy loved about Boba Fett was the air of mystery around him.
    Alan Sepinwall, Rolling Stone, 5 Jan. 2022
  • The piece also photo-matches to production stills from each of the original trilogy films.
    Jeff Spry, Space.com, 16 Mar. 2025

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