How to Use paywall in a Sentence

paywall

noun
  • Time to slam down the paywall and rake in some cold, hard cash.
    — Andrew Rummer, WIRED, 19 Oct. 2024
  • Like Chrome got a brain and a paywall.
    — The Ai Insider, Interesting Engineering, 27 Oct. 2025
  • What surprised me is the fact that most of these games are behind a paywall.
    — Yan Zhuang, New York Times, 28 July 2023
  • None of the data is behind a paywall.
    — PC Magazine, 11 Aug. 2025
  • In fact, five of the ten season 5 episodes are locked behind a paywall.
    — Jacob Siegal, BGR, 6 Sep. 2021
  • So there will no longer be a stand-alone paywall for MLS.
    — Daniel Sperry, Kansas City Star, 13 Nov. 2025
  • The latter started a paywall last year.
    — Ted Johnson, Deadline, 18 Aug. 2025
  • She was also put off by the idea of the show’s being behind a paywall.
    — Emily Gould, Vulture, 1 Feb. 2021
  • But some valuable info in available in front of the paywall.
    — William Baldwin, Forbes.com, 22 Aug. 2025
  • Now there’s a four pack of shaders completely behind a paywall.
    — Paul Tassi, Forbes, 29 Nov. 2023
  • YouTube plans to put some of its shows behind a paywall, while others will be free.
    — John Koblin, New York Times, 20 Aug. 2017
  • Some, like Taylor, haven’t even bothered to turn on the paywall.
    — Emma Alpern, Vulture, 2 July 2025
  • The other big thing for us, at least initially, is that this is free, in front of a paywall.
    — Bill Shaikin, Los Angeles Times, 13 Apr. 2022
  • For a device that’s made to do just a few things, losing some of those features to a paywall hurts a lot.
    — Sheena Vasani, The Verge, 4 Aug. 2023
  • Henig sees potential in the program, but her plans do not involve a paywall.
    — Kerry Flynn, CNN, 6 Feb. 2020
  • The shift to paywalls has been a boon for quality journalism.
    — Michael Luo, The New Yorker, 29 Mar. 2020
  • Among the features in the works is a paywall, allowing creators to set a price on their content.
    — Mia Sato, The Verge, 13 Feb. 2023
  • And customers for one reason or another that don’t want to be behind the paywall.
    — K.j. Yossman, Variety, 29 Sep. 2021
  • The weekly show was a side gig for staffers who produced journalism that went behind the paywall.
    — Ariel Shapiro, The Verge, 4 Jan. 2024
  • The Times also gave away its content for years before moving to a paywall.
    — Jacob Carpenter, Fortune, 11 Nov. 2022
  • Statista notes that 79% of that age group (paywall) uses their phone to watch video content weekly.
    — Sergio Alvarez, Forbes, 13 Sep. 2024
  • If you are signed in but still hit the paywall, your digital account may not be linked to your subscription.
    — Detroit Free Press, 12 Aug. 2020
  • This heaven is controlled by Big Tech and kept behind a paywall.
    — Andrew R. Chow, Time, 31 Mar. 2022
  • Live commerce has yet to catch on (paywall) in the US and Europe.
    — Marc Bain, Quartz, 18 May 2021
  • How much will be behind the paywall of the Paramount-Warner app?
    — Jesse Whittock, Deadline, 15 May 2026
  • Much of this analysis looks at long time horizons and exists behind paywalls.
    — Justin Worland, Time, 16 Aug. 2025
  • This message helped push the S&P 500 to an all-time high (paywall).
    — Eshe Nelson, Quartz, 29 June 2019
  • That allowed the journal to become the first to remove its paywall, on 9 March.
    — Jeffrey Brainard, Science | AAAS, 9 Mar. 2020
  • Yet unlike a growing number of newspapers, the Guardian has not put up a paywall.
    — The Economist, 18 Jan. 2018
  • But one of Musk’s first changes at X was to put access to platform data behind a steep paywall.
    — Brian Fung, CNN, 26 Mar. 2024

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