How to Use broadsheet in a Sentence

broadsheet

noun
  • The broadsheet started publishing as a tabloid this week for the want of newsprint.
    — Mary Beth Sheridan, Washington Post, 4 Aug. 2019
  • Songs just went out in the world as songs and broadsheets and were sung around fires when no one really knew the words.
    — Josh Crutchmer, Rolling Stone, 3 Jan. 2026
  • There would be the broadsheets of all the newspapers on the table every day.
    — Kristen Baldwin, EW.com, 11 Dec. 2019
  • Some researchers go even farther and question the approach of the broadsheets.
    — Conor Friedersdorf, The Atlantic, 23 May 2017
  • The Herald featured artwork by the artist on both the front and back of the broadsheet newspaper.
    — Craig Williams, USA TODAY, 22 June 2023
  • The agenda was printed on something known as the Calendar, a tiny-print broadsheet from which the pages spilled out when opened.
    — David Freedlander, Daily Intelligencer, 14 June 2018
  • Another wanted to be confident enough to pick up a broadsheet newspaper.
    — Stuart James, The Athletic, 5 Feb. 2025
  • In addition, the newspaper staff received a second-place award in the front page broadsheet category.
    — Richard Chang, sacbee.com, 20 May 2017
  • The first group, a series of broadsheet-size works on paper, titled ALX-1 through 10, hangs in a row in the front gallery.
    — Benjamin Lima, Dallas Morning News, 11 Feb. 2026
  • This was true even with the panels that prefigured electronic screens, including shoji, as well as mirrors and newspaper broadsheets.
    — Susan Crawford, WIRED, 27 Mar. 2018
  • The triumph of the codfish was front-page news in both the Globe and the Boston Herald; each devoted nearly half a broadsheet to the event.
    — Robert Kunzig, Discover Magazine, 11 Nov. 2019
  • This may seem like an ironic gift for a man who newspaper publishers once railed against as the destroyer of classified ads, a high-margin pillar in broadsheet and tabloid profits.
    — Glenn Fleishman, Fortune, 11 June 2018
  • In all, Weinman kept more than 2,000 yellow, brittle broadsheets, immortalizing events that changed the world.
    — CBS News, 2 July 2019
  • His New Yorkers still look a lot like their counterparts of 70 years ago, even as fedoras and broadsheets have given way to ballcaps and iPhones.
    — The Editors, The Cut, 16 Oct. 2017
  • Lewis then made his name as editor of the Daily Telegraph, a broadsheet newspaper favored by elites in political and financial circles.
    — David Folkenflik, NPR, 6 June 2024
  • The broadsheet reported that the decision to strip him of his title followed almost two weeks of negotiations before Andrew agreed to it on Thursday.
    — Chad De Guzman, Time, 31 Oct. 2025
  • The newspaper, a broadsheet printed on pink paper, aggressively covered New York business and politics.
    — Michael Kranish and Jonathan O'Connell, chicagotribune.com, 27 May 2017
  • Under his purview, the broadsheet expanded its focus beyond money and markets, built a successful paywall and kept its down-the-middle tone except for its conservative Opinion page.
    — Oliver Darcy, CNN, 21 Sep. 2023
  • Apple Daily, a colorful tabloid-style broadsheet-format newspaper, remained defiant.
    — Elaine Yu, WSJ, 17 June 2021
  • Little touches are on point and straddle generational divides—like being offered a broadsheet at breakfast, Vienna-style, but then being served a Melbourne-standard flat white.
    — Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 21 May 2026
  • But the meetings were also about Döpfner ingratiating himself to the right-of-center political leaders that make up some of the UK broadsheet’s audience (and source base).
    — Max Tani, semafor.com, 30 Mar. 2026
  • Rai was born in 1942, and began his career as a photojournalist in his twenties, at the Hindustan Times, an English-language broadsheet.
    — Taran Dugal, New Yorker, 23 May 2026
  • For years, the paper, a broadsheet founded for firefighters in 1897, has been following the dual downward trajectories of the newspaper industry and the labor movement.
    — New York Times, 7 Nov. 2021
  • In a broadsheet newspaper, the editorial section is typically published on one or two pages of the first news section of the newspaper that displays the masthead, which includes the title, owner’s name, and staff listing of the newspaper.
    — Encyclopedia Britannica, 23 Apr. 2026
  • The American Israelite, a Jewish newspaper, spent a whole broadsheet page struggling with the matter of voting for Grant without coming to a meaningful conclusion.
    — Eli Wizevich, Smithsonian Magazine, 17 Dec. 2024
  • Tabloid Journalism and Audiences Tabloid newspapers not only differ in size from broadsheet newspapers but in the way articles are written; tabloid articles are typically written in a colloquial and sensational style.
    — Shepherd Mpofu, Encyclopedia Britannica, 27 Apr. 2026
  • The mainstreaming of the great replacement theory in the United Kingdom, and the surge of the overtly racist Reform Party, was assisted by such headlines as christian child forced into muslim foster care in a once-respectable broadsheet like the Times.
    — Sean Williams, Harpers Magazine, 27 Jan. 2026
  • Ink Hot on the heels of 28 Years Later, Danny Boyle delves into the events surrounding Rupert Murdoch’s acquisition of UK newspaper The Sun in 1969 and drive to make the then-failing broadsheet into one of the country’s most read newspapers.
    — Andreas Wiseman, Deadline, 1 Jan. 2026

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