silver screen
Example Sentences
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On the silver screen, it dazzles like few contemporary science fiction films do, opting for color over the pallid gray verisimilitude that often bogs down its peers.
From Salon • Mar. 21, 2026
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
It’s been 18 years since “Rush Hour 3” hit the silver screen in 2007, but its producers and director Brett Ratner have reportedly been shopping around a sequel ever since.
From MarketWatch • Nov. 25, 2025
The best actors carry a kind of magic that reaches into us and transcends the silver screen.
From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 7, 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
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