How to Use B-roll in a Sentence
B-roll
noun-
More chatting, the camera turns away to shoot some B-roll.
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Literary Hub,
3 Apr. 2026
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No B-roll of an ambulance racing toward Halifax Health.
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Zach Dean Outkick,
FOXNews.com,
22 May 2026
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Shackleton began collecting interviews and shot evocative B-roll footage of ghostly California freeways and parking lots where the killer may have once lurked.
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Jill Goldsmith,
Deadline,
21 Nov. 2025
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Win or lose, the plays will be clipped incessantly, jammed into highlight reels or viral tweets, and B-roll of fans flooding the streets past subway stops adorned in Knicks colors and Timberlands will be plastered all over a thousand documentaries.
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Kyle Wagner,
New York Daily News,
3 June 2026
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Bongino began his first episode back in the host chair of The Dan Bongino Show by playing some B-roll from his FBI tenure, fondly reminiscing on the travels that were taken and the times that were had.
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Dan Adler,
Vanity Fair,
2 Feb. 2026
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Like most soft-focus docs about powerfully beloved musicians, this collage of interviews, behind-the-scenes footage and concert B-roll paints a flattering portrait that will primarily be of interest to those already bought into the Taylor Swift ecosystem.
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Angie Han,
HollywoodReporter,
3 Sep. 2019
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