How to Use junket in a Sentence

junket

noun
  • The senator has been criticized for expensive junkets to foreign countries.
  • And this cast wasn’t simply showing up to junkets.
    — Olivia Shalhoup, Forbes.com, 27 May 2026
  • There’s been so many pitches through our junkets over the last couple of weeks and months.
    — Christy Piña, The Hollywood Reporter, 27 May 2023
  • Wahlberg met his wife at a press junket in New York City.
    — Lauryn Overhultz, FOXNews.com, 25 Sep. 2025
  • Prior to the premiere, George was forced to skip a press junket for the film.
    — Lori A Bashian, FOXNews.com, 30 Aug. 2025
  • Tiller goes along with Pong on a junket to China to try to raise money for it.
    — Dwight Garner, New York Times, 1 Feb. 2021
  • Press junkets get satirically raked over the coals.
    — David Fear, Rolling Stone, 7 Nov. 2025
  • That film is also set to junket on July 7-8, putting it in the strike’s crosshairs.
    — Matt Donnelly, Variety, 13 June 2023
  • But currently, she is trapped in a Zoom room for the duration of a press junket.
    — Brennan Kilbane, Allure, 2 Mar. 2023
  • There's no irony in junket, though it's taken an interesting route from its origins.
    — James Harbeck, The Week, 5 Mar. 2022
  • Unifrance will also host a press junket during the Unifrance Rendez-vous.
    — Elsa Keslassy, Variety, 5 Jan. 2023
  • There, the music switches to distant, classical pomp and the actor takes a seat at a tidy press junket-style set.
    — Jon Blistein, Rolling Stone, 8 Oct. 2025
  • Winfrey shared at a recent press junket for the film in Los Angeles.
    — NBC News, 7 Mar. 2018
  • Turner has been answering tons of questions about Game of Thrones on this press junket.
    — Glamour, 30 May 2019
  • Last year at the Shang-Chi junket, Simu Liu sang a cappella for me.
    — Brian Davids, The Hollywood Reporter, 6 Apr. 2022
  • What’s more, big rumors are linking Kokrak with the LIV junket.
    — Paul Daugherty, The Enquirer, 27 June 2022
  • For the festivals, panels and interviews, for the photo shoots and the junkets.
    — Mary McNamara, Los Angeles Times, 28 June 2023
  • Outside of the set, Milo is typically doing press junkets across the world with the full cast.
    — Kayla Keegan, Good Housekeeping, 19 Mar. 2019
  • Foreman, who loved playing the penny slots, got in one last junket to Oklahoma before her death.
    — John MacCormack, ExpressNews.com, 25 Nov. 2020
  • The aviator stopped off in Milwaukee during a press junket to promote the feat.
    — La Risa R. Lynch, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 24 Oct. 2021
  • This is the polar opposite of the see-them-all island junkets most Americans take.
    — The Editors Of Gq, GQ, 28 June 2018
  • Variety caught up with Segura at a junket four days after the film’s release.
    — John Hopewell, Variety, 19 Mar. 2026
  • Wahlberg and Durham first met during a press junket in 2001 and had their first official date the very next day.
    — Catherine Santino, Peoplemag, 26 Jan. 2023
  • Take, for example, the longtime reliance of Hollywood on the movie junket.
    — Chris Jones, chicagotribune.com, 2 June 2021
  • The actor was spotted with a vibrant hot-pink Carrera Date on his wrist at various press junkets for the movie.
    — Rachel Cormack, Robb Report, 25 July 2023
  • In many ways, the extracurriculars—the women, the parties, the junkets—were all standard Ali fare by this point.
    — Vann R. Newkirk Ii, The Atlantic, 16 Sep. 2025
  • Once largely restricted to travel spots, junkets have spread to cultural events, like the biennial, that vie for a place on the world stage.
    — Blair Kamin, chicagotribune.com, 16 Sep. 2019
  • The effects of the writers and actors guild strikes are being felt across Hollywood, with press junkets and red carpets all but drying up.
    — Ash Parrish, The Verge, 25 July 2023
  • When studio movies come to the Croisette, they’re accompanied by stars on the red carpet and parties and marketing junkets.
    — Anne Thompson, IndieWire, 23 May 2026
  • In 2019, the actor had fan cast himself during a Triple Frontier press junket.
    — Nick Romano, EW.com, 14 June 2021

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