How to Use casting couch in a Sentence

casting couch

noun
  • The casting couch was a real threat for actresses.
    — Anne Thompson, IndieWire, 17 Dec. 2025
  • The casting couch was, and is, part of Hollywood's shameful legacy.
    — Stephanie Nolasco, FOXNews.com, 6 June 2026
  • Over three years ago, a woman was on the radio saying that Halle Berry’s manager was her worst casting couch experience ever.
    — Essence.com, 6 Feb. 2018
  • The evil behavior of Harvey Weinstein, in other words, goes far beyond the Hollywood casting couch.
    — Heather Wilhelm, National Review, 20 Oct. 2017
  • In 2017, Ben Zimmer analyzed the origins of the phrase casting couch in an article for The Atlantic.
    — Sophie Gilbert, The Atlantic, 26 Mar. 2018
  • The phrase casting couch became linked to the Shuberts, at least in retrospect, as the etymologist Peter Tamony discovered.
    — Ben Zimmer, The Atlantic, 16 Oct. 2017
  • Unlike other aspects of Jane’s routine, which includes menial yet haunting tasks like scrubbing stains off her boss’s casting couch, the Froot Loops don’t relay anything about the toxic behavior pervading her workplace.
    — Sonia Rao, Washington Post, 8 Feb. 2020
  • For 10 days, the jurors on the Harvey Weinstein trial debated issues of consent, morality, the casting couch and power imbalances in Hollywood.
    — Elizabeth Wagmeister, Variety, 20 Dec. 2022
  • The Lakers’ Hollywood ending appears ready to dissolve like so many dreams on a casting couch with news that Luca Doncic (hamstring) and Austin Reaves (oblique) will miss the remainder of the regular season.
    — Troy Renck, Denver Post, 5 Apr. 2026
  • The moment, we’re given to understand, represents a dozen others like it, but while the casting couch isn’t news, the drama here is in seeing Marilyn’s special navigation of the toxicity of Hollywood’s harassment-meets-sugar-daddy culture.
    — Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 8 Sep. 2022

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