show business

Example Sentences

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When a friend from outside of show business suggested Peet, the idea just clicked.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 2, 2026

Before he was Casey Wasserman, the businessman was Casey Myers, a private-school student with family connections to show business.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 21, 2026

There is, of course, show business, an industry that values make-believe and vanity and couldn’t possibly exist anywhere else.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 12, 2025

Jerry Seinfeld, who presumably knows a thing or two about show business, has said the film industry as currently constituted is kaput, even if Tinseltown has been slow to understand what’s happened in recent decades.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 9, 2025

Usually it would be about show business or stars in the movies or television.

From "March Forward, Girl" by Melba Pattillo Beals