silver screen

Example Sentences

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The night will be filled with drama beyond the silver screen as Hollywood’s biggest stars gather at L.A.’s Dolby Theatre to honor, um, themselves.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 13, 2026

Like many illustrious figures, the cowboy turns out to be a more nuanced individual than the often one-dimensional representations of the silver screen.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 23, 2026

Comics characters, Mr Fuller agrees, are "all over the culture", whether via silver screen or anime on Netflix.

From BBC • Dec. 13, 2025

What better way to make the afterlife slightly less terrifying than to see a version of it with our own eyes on the silver screen, whatever that interpretation might resemble.

From Salon • Nov. 27, 2025

Joe, who had just seen a Paramount movie short featuring a cartoon character new to the silver screen, Popeye the Sailor, wrote in his scrapbook that night, “I yam disgusted.”

From "The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics" by Daniel James Brown