How to Use fly on the wall in a Sentence

fly on the wall

1 of 2 noun phrase
  • Oh, to be a fly on the wall for this moment.
    — Rachel Burchfield, InStyle, 12 Mar. 2026
  • Ever wanted to be a fly on the wall in your favorite celebrity’s groupchat?
    — Kyra Surgent, InStyle, 9 Apr. 2026
  • Ever wanted to be a fly on the wall at a NYFW party?
    — Madeline Hirsch, InStyle, 27 Feb. 2026
  • Ever wanted to be a fly on the wall at a NYFW party?
    — Madeline Hirsch, InStyle, 9 Mar. 2026
  • Love Is Blind fans can be a fly on the wall of the dating scene in Poland to see if the singles looking for a match will find one.
    — Time Staff, Time, 4 May 2026
  • The three-time NBA champion and Hall of Famer lets viewers be a fly on the wall of his life.
    — Todd Spangler, Variety, 13 May 2026

fly-on-the-wall

2 of 2 adjective
  • Dinerstein calls his show a fly-on-the-wall documentary series.
    — Peter White, Deadline, 28 Jan. 2026
  • The picture thus combines the excitement of an old-school disaster spectacle with a fly-on-the-wall portrait of institutions struggling to function in the face of a calamity.
    — Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 6 Sep. 2025
  • That fly-on-the-wall approach ensures that, if Megalopolis provoked its share of critical battles, Megadoc will serve as evidence for all sides of the debate.
    — Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 28 Aug. 2025
  • Fujimoto shoots in an almost documentary-like, fly-on-the-wall style from the very beginning, but this isn’t to say that the film is cold or analytical in its depiction of this story.
    — Kambole Campbell, IndieWire, 3 Nov. 2025
  • The talk of settling down and staying in the crib feels like moodboard fodder, without any of the scraps of conversation and vivid stories that give a fly-on-the-wall view of actual personal relationships.
    — Alphonse Pierre, Pitchfork, 19 Feb. 2026
  • Race, bad bosses and the fly-on-the-wall fun of watching office politics and micro-aggressions play out makes this workplace suspense novel a total page-turner (as well as a binge-worthy limited television series).
    — Laura Zigman, PEOPLE, 2 May 2026
  • This wasn’t just Elvis at his peak as a live performer, captured from multiple angles often by expert filmmakers, but also fly-on-the-wall backstage footage and candid interviews from the notoriously press-shy music icon.
    — Andy Greene, Rolling Stone, 10 Feb. 2026
  • But there is really only one star in Mike Figgis’ fascinating fly-on-the-wall account of that film’s extremely ambitious and chaotic shoot, and that’s Coppola himself.
    — Jordan Mintzer, HollywoodReporter, 28 Aug. 2025
  • This latest Venice premiere is definitely a work of fragments, isolated scenes that amount to a fly-on-the-wall view of Lucius but are not meant to create a traditional narrative, or for the pieces to fit together as neatly as a jigsaw puzzle.
    — Caryn James, HollywoodReporter, 31 Aug. 2025
  • Flareups between Coppola and star Shia LaBeouf, along with Aubrey Plaza just being Aubrey Plaza, make Figgis’ fly-on-the-wall study entertaining.
    — Randy Myers, Mercury News, 18 Sep. 2025
  • The show was conceived as a spiritual (but not official) successor to The Osbournes, the anarchic fly-on-the-wall series that aired on MTV between 2002 and 2005.
    — Denise Petski, Deadline, 5 Aug. 2025
  • His leadership role stood out in a recent six-part documentary series released by the club on YouTube, Sans jamais rien lacher (Never Give Up), which gave viewers a fly-on-the-wall perspective on De Zerbi’s first season in the dug-out.
    — Tom Williams, New York Times, 23 Aug. 2025

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