show business

Example Sentences

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Duplass and Aselton say their younger daughter Molly has no interest in show business.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 18, 2026

Documentary filmmakers are, generally speaking, not the glitziest figures in show business.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 10, 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

“It’s the thing in show business, I’ve found, that winds me up in a bad way the least.”

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 2, 2026

It is hard to imagine Tom Smith surrounded by the artificialities of show business, standing in a glitzy showring, loosing horses to run in chaotic sprints, and not think that something precious was being squandered.

From "Seabiscuit: An American Legend" by Laura Hillenbrand