How to Use Hollywood in a Sentence

Hollywood

noun
  • At least, that’s how Hollywood depicts them.
    — Melissa Cristina Márquez, Forbes.com, 1 Sep. 2025
  • But a wave of organizing in the field comes as Hollywood’s labor movement is in full swing.
    — Ramishah Maruf, CNN, 2023-09-13
  • Writers in Hollywood have been striking since May with actors joining them last month.
    — Terry Collins, USA TODAY, 2023-08-08
  • There is an adage in Hollywood that actors want to win awards to boost their egos, whereas directors want to win awards to boost their budgets.
    — Rachel Syme, The New Yorker, 2024-01-22
  • In 2007, he was honored with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
    — Emily St. Martin, Los Angeles Times, 2023-12-12
  • The Hollywood Reporter reached out to Testino and Weber but did not hear back as of press time.
    — Chris Gardner, The Hollywood Reporter, 2024-04-03
  • The summer movie season has consistently been the biggest boon for Hollywood.
    — Auzinea Bacon, CNN Money, 1 Sep. 2025
  • Whatever the next move for Sweeney, she’s undoubtedly been enshrined as one of Hollywood’s hot young stars.
    — David Sims, The Atlantic, 2024-03-22
  • The one-two punch of the pandemic and the Hollywood actors’ and writers’ strikes gave a lot of celebrities a lot of free time in which to launch businesses.
    — Natalie Jarvey, Fortune, 1 Sep. 2025
  • Click here for more photos of Danny McBride’s Hollywood penthouse.
    — Mark David, Robb Report, 2023-10-25
  • And for the Swifties who didn’t get to go to the Hollywood premiere Wednesday, seeing the movie at the same mall the next evening was the next best thing.
    — Angela Yang, NBC News, 2023-10-13
  • At least that’s how the former TV nanny tells it in an interview with the Hollywood Reporter.
    — Holman W. Jenkins, Jr., WSJ, 2023-11-17
  • Thank you Jimmy Kimmel for hosting it in your black-box theater on Hollywood Boulevard.
    — Vulture, 2023-11-17
  • For Mann, despite the pushback, the benefits of AI in Hollywood outweigh the risks.
    — Jason Nathanson, ABC News, 2023-09-01
  • The Hollywood star appears to be fully focused on his acting career, leaving professional wrestling on the back burner.
    — Andrew Ravens‎, MSNBC Newsweek, 1 Sep. 2025
  • Despite decades of success, Winkler expressed gratitude and shared what continues to drive him in Hollywood.
    — Stephanie Giang-Paunon , Larry Fink, FOXNews.com, 31 Aug. 2025
  • Mom and Dad) looked on Brando — the barbarian at the gates of Broadway and Hollywood — with undisguised horror.
    — Ty Burr, Washington Post, 2024-04-03
  • The Untold Hollywood Story documentary, for the first time ever at the virtual awards show.
    — Heran Mamo, Billboard, 2020-09-10
  • The actor kept her styling classic, wearing her signature red hair Jessica Rabbit style, with a deep side part and Old Hollywood curls.
    — Kathleen Walsh, Glamour, 2024-01-09
  • Dolby Atmos is used for Hollywood blockbusters, some streaming TV shows, and also music on select services.
    — Sheena Vasani, The Verge, 2023-11-17
  • Lachlan Cartwright is a special correspondent for The Hollywood Reporter.
    — Lachlan Cartwright, New York Times, 2024-04-03
  • About 378 miles from Hollywood, the city of trees has attracted directors throughout the years to film both movies and documentaries in Sacramento.
    — Jacqueline Pinedo, Sacramento Bee, 2024-02-02
  • The event, supported by Princess Grace, who enlisted her Hollywood contacts to serve as celebrity judges, awards prizes to the top circus acts and is considered the Oscars of the circus world.
    — Peter Mikelbank, Peoplemag, 2024-01-22
  • Anderson, who grew up with his mother in Compton, California, decided to take his mom along for a six-week trip of a lifetime through Europe as a way to thank her for giving up her own Hollywood dreams to raise him.
    — Stacey Leasca, Travel + Leisure, 2023-07-27
  • Hollywood stars like Olivia Munn, Reese Witherspoon, and Drew Barrymore have all been spotted in flare jeans this year — and Cindy Crawford is hopping on the trend, too.
    — Clara McMahon, People.com, 2 Sep. 2025
  • Previous guests on the farewell tour included Sam Smith, Hayley Williams, and Mickey Guyton, who cameoed at the penultimate show at the Hollywood Bowl.
    — Daniel Kreps, Rolling Stone, 31 Aug. 2025
  • Second, to point out that the Hollywood Red Scare only targeted about three hundred people, giving a sense of the comparative scale of cancel culture, which has seen more than one thousand attempts to cancel professors since 2014.
    — David Cole, The New York Review of Books, 2024-02-15
  • Hailing from Hollywood royalty as the son of late legend Donald Sutherland, Kiefer's role on Stand by Me led to prominent parts in The Lost Boys, Young Guns (1988), and Flatliners (1990).
    — Sezin Devi Koehler September 1, EW.com, 1 Sep. 2025
  • Previous Lumiere honorees include some of the biggest names in Hollywood, including Clint Eastwood, Martin Scorsese, Jane Fonda, Francis Ford Coppola, Quentin Tarantino, and Tim Burton, alongside European stars, such as Isabelle Huppert and Catherine Deneuve.
    — Elsa Keslassy, Variety, 31 Aug. 2025

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