How to Use audience in a Sentence

audience

noun
  • The audience clapped and cheered.
  • Her audience is made up mostly of young women.
  • The concert attracted a large audience.
  • In the audience was a kid named Ed who used to chase Taylor around the playground and try to beat him up.
    Andy Greene, Rolling Stone, 18 Feb. 2023
  • Haley noted her parents were in the audience on Wednesday.
    CBS News, 15 Feb. 2023
  • One notable moment was when Crim asked students in the audience if they had ever been called a specific racial slur.
    Karie Angell Luc, Chicago Tribune, 28 Feb. 2023
  • Anger briefly turned physical at Payton Gendron’s sentencing when a man in the audience rushed at him.
    Carolyn Thompson, BostonGlobe.com, 15 Feb. 2023
  • In the audience sat his wife, Coco, and their 7-year-old daughter, Chanel, who would later join her papa at the podium.
    Los Angeles Times, 17 Feb. 2023
  • The most emotional moment came when the camera panned to a San Antonio mother sitting in the audience.
    Allie Morris, Dallas News, 16 Feb. 2023
  • Gannett may earn revenue for audience referrals to Jackpocket services.
    Jordan Kellogg, The Enquirer, 6 Nov. 2024
  • The first trailer for the fantasy adventure feature soon had audiences questioning whether or not AI was used in production.
    Samantha Bergeson, IndieWire, 5 Nov. 2024
  • Conway shared that her main political focus has been the new audience Vice President Harris has been working to capture.
    Ashleigh Fields, The Hill, 5 Nov. 2024
  • Fans in the audience screamed out the star’s last name.
    Paul Grein, Billboard, 28 Feb. 2024
  • The move is likely to broaden the audience for the event.
    Brian Steinberg, Variety, 7 Nov. 2023
  • In 1977, audiences watched the couple seem to fall in love live on the show.
    Sara Sidner, CNN, 19 Aug. 2024
  • The audience stretches back through the hall, past one of the two bathrooms and into the kitchen.
    Jackson Landers, SPIN, 8 June 2023
  • In Japan, everyone in the audience does the same thing.
    Billboard Japan, Billboard, 26 Oct. 2023
  • The way the echo affected how the audience took in his jokes.
    David Remnick, The New Yorker, 28 Apr. 2024
  • The audience gave a wild ovation, but the band demurred.
    Evan Minsker, Pitchfork, 26 Oct. 2023
  • The audience always loves the sneak peeks for the biggest movies that are about to be released.
    Michael Schneider, Variety, 4 May 2023
  • The show’s first reunion episode brought in the highest audience in over two years for the series.
    Jackie Strause, The Hollywood Reporter, 19 Aug. 2024
  • When the band had run through eight or nine Killers songs, the audience applauded.
    Patrick Radden Keefe, The New Yorker, 25 Dec. 2023
  • Collins will be the youngest prime time host in cable news, where the median age of the audience is over 64.
    Stephen Battaglio, Los Angeles Times, 17 May 2023
  • Lots of people miss the depths to which Southern artists go for their audiences.
    Taylor Alxndr, Them, 7 Oct. 2024
  • Kodzis pulled a bottle out of their jacket, took out a pill and swallowed it in front of the audience.
    Ariel Castillo, Dallas News, 20 Apr. 2023
  • The audience will see the finalists compete to see who earns a spot in the final five.
    Marianne Garvey, CNN, 2 May 2023
  • Here are six actors bound to have audiences buzzing this summer at the movies.
    Lindsey Bahr, ajc, 3 May 2023
  • War movies that take aim at male audiences — movies made to drive box office sales.
    Amanda Luberto, The Arizona Republic, 11 July 2023
  • And we are headed toward the audience, like the train in the Lumière brothers’s film!
    Vinson Cunningham, The New Yorker, 19 Apr. 2023
  • And as the evening entered its sixth hour, the lights came up and the remaining audience stumbled off into the night.
    Jem Aswad, Variety, 4 Feb. 2024

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