How to Use movie house in a Sentence

movie house

noun
  • Find a bargain movie house and enjoy an afternoon at the movies.
    — Parents, 11 June 2026
  • For so many theatergoers, the movie house represents more than a place to screen films.
    — April Austin, Christian Science Monitor, 1 Mar. 2025
  • It had been converted into a studio by Jim and Estelle from the bones of a movie house.
    — Jonathan Bernstein, Rolling Stone, 14 Apr. 2026
  • The show is fittingly given a live theater setting, with the characters working in a Depression-era movie house.
    — Christopher Arnott, Hartford Courant, 12 Jan. 2026
  • Come for the movies, get bumped into by the several ghosts who are said to inhabit the Art Deco movie house that was built in 1937.
    — Keith Sharon, Nashville Tennessean, 30 Oct. 2025
  • The ghosts of the Federal Theatre still haunt the 102-year-old movie house, and David Lindoerfer has seen them.
    — John Wenzel, Denver Post, 12 Sep. 2025
  • And that’s why films like Hamnet deserve a theatrical release — not just releasing it into the world with clusters of five or six people sitting around a living room watching television, but altogether in the great unknown of a dark movie house.
    — Scott Feinberg, HollywoodReporter, 29 Jan. 2026
  • The Lyric Theater, which was built in the 1920s as a silent movie house, regularly hosts plays, musicals, and performances from big-name talent in its grand, 500-seat theater.
    — Tara Massouleh McCay, Southern Living, 6 Aug. 2025
  • The Lyric Theater, which was built in the 1920s as a silent movie house, regularly hosts plays, musicals, and performances from big-name talent in its grand, 500-seat theater.
    — Tara Massouleh McCay, Southern Living, 1 Dec. 2025
  • The Lyric Theater, which was built in the 1920s as a silent movie house, regularly hosts plays, musicals, and performances from big-name talent in its grand, 500-seat theater.
    — Tara Massouleh McCay, Southern Living, 16 June 2026
  • Before it was featured on Ben and Erin Napier's Home Town Takeover on HGTV, the town's biggest claim to fame was as the home of the Big Fish movie house.
    — Tara Massouleh McCay, Southern Living, 17 June 2026
  • By 2023, Berkeley’s last downtown movie house, the 90-year-old United Artists Theater shuttered its doors for good as part of a series of closures by Cineworld, a company with theaters across the world.
    — Sierra Lopez, Mercury News, 23 Nov. 2025
  • The movie house reopened under new ownership in 1978 and operated on and off showing second-runs of current movies at bargain prices until about 2000, according to Courier-News reports.
    — Mike Danahey, Chicago Tribune, 15 Apr. 2026
  • CinemaSFbay, the nonprofit that operates the Balboa, Vogue and 4 Star theaters in San Francisco, revealed that the indie movie house’s 100th anniversary celebration is scheduled for April 18.
    — G. Allen Johnson, San Francisco Chronicle, 10 Mar. 2026
  • Situated between the two feature experiences is the TUDUM theater, an unintentionally ironic full-on movie house where Netflix fans can watch WWE Raw episodes, singalong with KPop Demon Hunters and, soon, screen new original movie In Your Dreams.
    — Tony Maglio, HollywoodReporter, 12 Nov. 2025

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