How to Use world-building in a Sentence

world-building

noun

• That sort of world-building for your pet won’t come cheap.
  — Boone Ashworth, WIRED, 15 Oct. 2024
• If the first film felt like endless world-building and set-up, have no fear.
  — Scott Phillips, Forbes, 4 Jan. 2025
• That kind of world-building appealed to him more than the story of this kid who becomes a god.
  — WIRED, 19 Sep. 2023
• That is the beauty of Barbie Land logic and world-building.
  — André-Naquian Wheeler, Vogue, 20 July 2023
• People certainly aren’t looking for the next Game of Thrones or the next world-building show.
  — Lacey Rose, The Hollywood Reporter, 30 Nov. 2023
• In this deep dive into world-building, we’re thrust 300 years into the future.
  — Randy Myers, The Mercury News, 25 Jan. 2024
• To date, the SSU has failed to generate the success or world-building Sony hoped for and intended.
  — Mark Hughes, Forbes, 12 Dec. 2024
• Elsewhere in the interview, Elliott discussed some of the plans for world-building in this next film.
  — Charlotte Phillipp, Peoplemag, 22 Apr. 2024
• Billion-dollar world-building aside, The Rings of Power plods.
  — TIME, 7 Feb. 2024
• This Easter egg is Lynchian world-building at its best.
  — Max Evry, WIRED, 10 Jan. 2024
• Burton, long revered for his quirky world-building genius, needs to get his macabre back, bigtime.
  — Karen D'souza, The Mercury News, 25 Sep. 2024
• The elaborate world-building and precinct plot yielded a timeless film that would be studied and enjoyed for decades to come.
  — Jordan Runtagh, Peoplemag, 31 Mar. 2024
• Keith Herron’s world-building with his brand Advisry has been in the making since his teen years.
  — Kerane Marcellus, Essence, 8 Sep. 2024
• Like all world-building for the big screen, recreating the Bridgerton universe based on Julia Quinn’s novels is no small feat.
  — Rachel Silva, ELLE Decor, 8 Sep. 2023
• The visuals the group puts out—the single shot, world-building videos—are clearly a central part of their identity, but the music stands on its own as well.
  — Liam Hess, Vogue, 23 Oct. 2023
• Again, in between the firefights, there is also a lot of immersive world-building and bickering with a robot who has a heart of gold.
  — Adrienne So, WIRED, 30 Jan. 2024
• Readers get all the best parts of swoony love story tropes, magical world-building and high-stakes adventure.
  — Clare Mulroy, USA TODAY, 14 Dec. 2024
• The books are epic in every sense of the word, from their incredible world-building to an extensive cast of characters.
  — Milan Polk, Men's Health, 28 Aug. 2023
• Chu’s vibrant world-building is a significant part of that.
  — David Rooney, The Hollywood Reporter, 19 Nov. 2024
• Despite this mild glitch, the Tokyo example is a mind-blowing exercise in world-building.
  — Steven Levy, WIRED, 15 Feb. 2024
• With a new Hellraiser reboot available to stream on Hulu, this is your chance to glory over the gloom, gore, and arch world-building of the original 1987 British horror film.
  — EW.com, 19 Dec. 2023
• Old-money aesthetic is not complete without the requisite world-building: the yacht, the Dom Pérignon, the Lake Como backdrop.
  — Sarah Spellings, Vogue, 12 Dec. 2023
• Will the fanboys go for all this elaborate world-building, inevitably leading to a deadly faceoff on the insurgents’ way home to Veldt?
  — David Rooney, The Hollywood Reporter, 15 Dec. 2023
• Moving on from the monograph, the next step for me in world-building was to develop specific spaces and attach a narrative to each one.
  — Alessia Glaviano, Vogue, 4 Jan. 2024
• Genre fiction is harder than people want to give it credit for, partly because 90 percent of it is world-building.
  — Sara Holdren, Vulture, 28 Oct. 2024
• Her world No longer tied to the adolescent narratives of her earlier career, Swift also had a new task at hand: world-building.
  — Raisa Bruner, TIME, 26 Oct. 2023
• How does your approach to world-building in music differ from comedy?
  — Nate Jackson, Los Angeles Times, 17 Oct. 2024
• The rapper’s presence with the French fashion house will be a door opener for world-building with diverse cultural influences of the rapper and the classic structures of the brand.
  — Kerane Marcellus, Essence, 9 July 2024
• Layered and vivid, world-building was the key to its magnetism, and that's what originally captivated me.
  — Jason Parham, WIRED, 31 Aug. 2023
• Those are the two major plot strands of the new season, which has sacrificed much of the playfulness of season 1 for some terribly complicated world-building that leads, at least, to one mind-bending conversation between innie and outie.
  — Tom Gliatto, People.com, 15 Jan. 2025

Last Updated: 31 Jan 2025