How to Use show business in a Sentence

show business

noun
  • She has been in show business for over 30 years.
  • That’s just show business for you.
    — Maya Georgi, Rolling Stone, 3 Oct. 2025
  • That’s just the nature of show business.
    — Peter White, Deadline, 13 Nov. 2025
  • That’s just the nature of show business.
    — Peter White, Deadline, 3 Nov. 2025
  • Come on, honey, this is show business.
    — Ilana Kaplan, PEOPLE, 29 Sep. 2025
  • His mother, who wrote books, would have liked to be in show business.
    — Maureen Dowd, New York Times, 29 Oct. 2022
  • That and the show business aspect of it in which there’s a pageantry to it.
    — John Benson, cleveland, 10 Dec. 2022
  • And, baby, that’s show business for you.
    — Ella Gonzales, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 20 Sep. 2025
  • Baby, that’s show business for you.
    — Rob Sheffield, Rolling Stone, 14 Sep. 2025
  • Baby, that’s show business for you.
    — Jason P. Frank, Vulture, 2 Oct. 2025
  • There’s no business like show business.
    — Susan Shelley, Oc Register, 21 Feb. 2026
  • The hardest work man in show business had the earnings to prove it.
    — Jasmine Browley, Essence, 2 Aug. 2022
  • But that doesn’t mean he has been exiled to the show business wilderness.
    — Todd Longwell, Variety, 9 May 2024
  • As for her career in show business, she was finished.
    — Emily St. Martin, Los Angeles Times, 15 May 2026
  • And baby, that's show business.
    — Bryan West, USA Today, 17 Sep. 2025
  • And take you in this dressing room and talk business and show business for four hours.
    — Vinson Cunningham, New Yorker, 29 Mar. 2026
  • Goldwyn – who in fact comes from a show business dynasty on both sides – asked.
    — Dan Heching, CNN Money, 20 Jan. 2026
  • The colonel was a believer in show business.
    — Kim Willis, USA Today, 5 Aug. 2025
  • Best of all, his heart was big enough to love all of show business and every person in it.
    — Marc Berman, Forbes, 15 Aug. 2024
  • Still, the actor doubled down on show business.
    — Max Bacall , Nikos Degruccio, FOXNews.com, 23 May 2026
  • Lamas also is a bit of a nepo baby who was born into show business.
    — Martha Ross, Mercury News, 14 Apr. 2026
  • Batiste and the hardest-working soul band in show business messed around and changed the whole list.
    — Paul De Revere, Billboard, 30 Apr. 2018
  • Hemingway is no stranger to show business.
    — Arushi Jacob, Variety, 13 Feb. 2026
  • Salma Hayek is perhaps one of the busiest women in show business.
    — Hannah Coates, Vogue, 9 July 2024
  • That’s happened to many people over the course of a career in show business.
    — Josh Wigler, HollywoodReporter, 8 July 2025
  • And that would be the end of Doris’ fledgling show business career.
    — Vincent T. Davis, San Antonio Express-News, 22 June 2018
  • Right out the gate, show business was a tremendous source of parody and satire for you.
    — Jesse David Fox, Vulture, 16 Sep. 2021
  • In show business, you could easily get caught up in jealousy.
    — Marta Balaga, Variety, 26 Apr. 2026
  • At 29 years old, Palmer has already racked up two decades in show business.
    — Yvonne Villarrealstaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 6 Dec. 2022
  • And you’re supposed to be having fun and more about how the business and show business should run.
    — Rosemary Rossi, Variety, 9 Jan. 2026

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