How to Use cinema in a Sentence

cinema

noun
  • We drove by the cinema to see what was playing.
  • That's one for date night at the cinema!
    — Brian Truitt, USA Today, 20 Feb. 2026
  • So, that’s from a cinema point of view.
    — Damon Wise, Deadline, 29 Oct. 2025
  • Let’s make this as a cinema movie.
    — Kate Erbland, IndieWire, 28 May 2026
  • That’s what cinema is about for me.
    — Rachel Handler, Vulture, 14 May 2026
  • Click here to see if your local cinema made the cut.
    — Amaris Encinas, USA Today, 2 Oct. 2025
  • Mitchell makes the case that Black cinema brought the hero back.
    — Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 9 Oct. 2022
  • Have your picks in place for the busy fall movie season at the cinema?
    — Brian Truitt, USA TODAY, 20 Sep. 2024
  • But my love of cinema came from my mother.
    — Zak Cheney-Rice, Vulture, 28 Aug. 2025
  • The film is still doing very well in cinemas.
    — Damon Wise, Deadline, 22 Jan. 2026
  • Cannes is the place to meet your cinema heroes.
    — Matt Donnelly, Variety, 20 May 2026
  • The country, for the first time in decades, has cinemas.
    — Zach Helfand, New Yorker, 23 Apr. 2026
  • Against its will, the film revealed a great deal about the state of cinema.
    — Elsa Keslassy, Variety, 18 June 2026
  • The teen club has video games, ping-pong, billiards, and a cinema.
    — Allison Tibaldi, USA Today, 27 Sep. 2025
  • There is no restaurant, there is no cinema.
    — Matthew Carey, Deadline, 20 Feb. 2026
  • That cinema can still exist here, even now.
    — Elsa Keslassy, Variety, 24 Mar. 2026
  • The film will hit cinemas on June 5.
    — Zac Ntim, Deadline, 11 Mar. 2026
  • And cinema, of course, is the seventh art.
    — Alex Ritman, Variety, 15 May 2026
  • The subject is cinema, the world, the truth.
    — Elsa Keslassy, Variety, 18 June 2026
  • The film is due to open in cinemas at the end of July this year.
    — Tribune Content Agency, Chicago Tribune, 18 Mar. 2026
  • The cinema may be king after all.
    — David Denby, New Yorker, 21 June 2026
  • Such news restores your faith in cinema.
    — Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 15 Apr. 2026
  • So, there were lots of people who'd worked on the movie who came to see the film in the cinema.
    — Chelsey Sanchez, Harper's BAZAAR, 23 Dec. 2022
  • And in cinema, that is the very core and magic of the art form itself.
    — Chris O'Falt, IndieWire, 25 Feb. 2026
  • The film will be in cinemas on Oct 16.
    — Zac Ntim, Deadline, 25 June 2026
  • The standard set up and pay-off from mainstream cinema is nowhere to be found.
    — Scott Phillips, Forbes, 21 Apr. 2023
  • Does the cinema have room for two art-house donkey movies in its repertoire?
    — Jordan Mintzer, The Hollywood Reporter, 19 May 2022
  • Much of my knowledge of speed dating came from cinema.
    — A.r. Carter, Los Angeles Times, 27 Feb. 2026
  • For many, this is not a moment for soothing cinema.
    — Alison Foreman, IndieWire, 30 Jan. 2026
  • The modern cinema is, in large part, a tale of three Ter(r)ences.
    — Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 31 May 2022

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