spectacles
Example Sentences
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While Domingo is taking on big-budget spectacles, he still keeps a foot in indie films, working with A24 on Sing Sing, for example.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 10, 2026
The shift has fuelled what experts describe as "event cinema", as studios rely on big-budget spectacles and top-tier stars to lure audiences -- especially smartphone-loving Gen Z viewers -- back into theatres.
From Barron's • Jan. 25, 2026
Viewers loved going to the movies for those big-budget spectacles because they were a means of transportation, so to speak.
From Salon • Jan. 6, 2026
Dark and clear nights are the optimum viewing conditions so let's hope that 2026 gifts us with more spectacles in the night sky.
From BBC • Jan. 3, 2026
The painting showed an old man in cracked spectacles standing beside a lame horse, in the midst of a homestead that had burned to the ground, so that only the smoking ruins remained.
From "The Long-Lost Home" by Maryrose Wood
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Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
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