How to Use audience in a Sentence

audience

noun
  • The audience clapped and cheered.
  • Her audience is made up mostly of young women.
  • The concert attracted a large audience.
  • Lennie asked about how the audience coped with that.
    — Victoria Edel, PEOPLE, 9 Apr. 2026
  • And audiences have wrapped both arms around the film.
    — Mary Whitfill Roeloffs, Forbes.com, 23 Jan. 2026
  • And then the audience comes, on the fifth day or fourth day.
    — Victoria Edel, PEOPLE, 9 Apr. 2026
  • The cast turns its back on the audience and sings the phrase again.
    — Craig Bruce Smith, Time, 21 Oct. 2022
  • What will the audience at home think?
    — Literary Hub, 29 Jan. 2026
  • And by the way, when your breadth of audience is as big as ours, right?
    — Ben Smith, semafor.com, 6 Feb. 2026
  • Artists, their works, and their audiences are shipped from place to place.
    — Daniel Birnbaum, Artforum, 2 Apr. 2026
  • The core audience is not teenagers.
    — Kennedy French, Variety, 27 Mar. 2026
  • And audiences loved him for it.
    — Hanna Wickes, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 20 Mar. 2026
  • Thrill audiences and sell out shows.
    — Jessica Gelt, Los Angeles Times, 6 Mar. 2026
  • Schmidt says the goal is to appeal to a wider audience.
    — Jamal Goss, CBS News, 27 Mar. 2026
  • The place is packed and the audience is rapt for the matinee.
    — Peter Marks, Washington Post, 21 Oct. 2022
  • New games needs to appeal to new audiences as well.
    — David Jagneaux, Forbes.com, 1 Sep. 2025
  • The audience couldn’t look away.
    — Michelle Duncan, Architectural Digest, 8 May 2026
  • And more is what audiences are set to receive.
    — Zac Ntim, Deadline, 19 June 2026
  • Well, the audience coming back wants to know what does that look like?
    — Dominic Patten, Deadline, 15 May 2026
  • The audience cheered the entire way through his set, a mix of old and new.
    — Billboard Japan, Billboard, 30 Jan. 2026
  • There is a planned audience with the pope set to take place before the game.
    — Sara Tenenbaum, CBS News, 17 Apr. 2026
  • War movies that take aim at male audiences — movies made to drive box office sales.
    — Amanda Luberto, The Arizona Republic, 11 July 2023
  • So the audience knows this guy got money.
    — Brian Truitt, USA Today, 4 Sep. 2025
  • Then again, maybe the show’s creators are right not to trust their audience.
    — Will Collins, The Washington Examiner, 19 Sep. 2025
  • The show never talks down to the audience.
    — Rachel Desantis, PEOPLE, 6 Nov. 2025
  • This drew a laugh from the audience, most of whom were there for the flurry of notes.
    — Carlo Rotella, Washington Post, 20 July 2022
  • And a heel went flying through the audience.
    — Catherine Santino, PEOPLE, 30 Apr. 2026
  • In practice, the audience fills in the gaps.
    — Hanna Wickes, Charlotte Observer, 13 Mar. 2026
  • Jackson urged the audience to get ready, too.
    — Charlotte Observer, 5 Sep. 2025
  • Most chairs in the audience were empty.
    — Jennifer Berry Hawes, CNN Money, 21 Feb. 2026

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