How to Use showbiz in a Sentence

showbiz

noun
  • Sometimes the critics love you and sometimes they hate you. That's showbiz.
  • But there’s a showbiz wild card at play.
    — Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 10 Oct. 2025
  • Who doesn’t love a scathing showbiz satire?
    — Proma Khosla, IndieWire, 20 Aug. 2025
  • Now, more of the men with clout in showbiz have joined the cause.
    — USA Today, 5 Apr. 2021
  • What was the first instinct showbiz might be for you?
    — Ct Jones, Rolling Stone, 9 June 2026
  • This needs to remain a showbiz town.
    — Seth Abramovitch, HollywoodReporter, 15 Aug. 2025
  • The 36-year-old doesn’t look like the type to seek out the bright lights of showbiz.
    — Lars Brandle, Billboard, 9 Aug. 2023
  • Sammy was a showbiz kid almost from birth.
    — Questlove, The Atlantic, 7 Nov. 2025
  • Like an emotional thing, not a showbiz thing.
    — Melissa Ruggieri, USA Today, 8 Jan. 2026
  • But which showbiz movies will play a part in TS12?
    — Fran Hoepfner, Vulture, 12 Aug. 2025
  • Common has also been linked to some of the biggest names in showbiz over the years.
    — Adam England, Peoplemag, 14 Mar. 2023
  • The first half of the set exuded a vintage showbiz flair.
    — Ethan Shanfeld, Variety, 11 Apr. 2026
  • One more example of how even in showbiz, class is now the biggest divide of all.
    — Peter Kiefer, HollywoodReporter, 9 May 2025
  • Half my friends are not in showbiz, and nobody sees me at the industry parties.
    — Marshall Heyman, Town & Country, 27 May 2022
  • In the older woman’s eyes, that’s just showbiz, baby.
    — Katie Campione, Deadline, 21 Dec. 2025
  • Johnny Flynn‘s on something of a showbiz roll.
    — Lily Ford, HollywoodReporter, 14 Feb. 2026
  • Scenes of showbiz ruthlessness are left to the man who is brutish enough to unscrew that bottle of ketchup.
    — Armond White, National Review, 16 Sep. 2020
  • And their own family was stitched into the fabric of showbiz.
    — Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 28 Jan. 2022
  • Her folks were not acquainted with the quixotic nature of showbiz.
    — Luaine Lee Tribune News Service, Star Tribune, 8 June 2021
  • The beloved showbiz friendship has never been under a brighter spotlight.
    — Ana Osorno, Them., 11 Apr. 2025
  • Cooper has unerring showbiz instincts.
    — Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 10 Oct. 2025
  • The bands that were slightly introverted and not very showbiz.
    — Erin Osmon, Los Angeles Times, 10 May 2024
  • The biggest prizes in showbiz mislead consumers to think that all is right with the industry.
    — Armond White, National Review, 6 Apr. 2022
  • This was my musical debut for the entire world, and the number one rule in showbiz is that the show must go on.
    — Scott Bradlee, Billboard, 7 June 2018
  • To create the showbiz charade of being a beast in the ring and a nice presentable housewife the rest of the time.
    — Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 6 Sep. 2025
  • In past interviews, though, Malek hasn't had much to say about his entry into showbiz.
    — Jessica Radloff, Glamour, 2 Nov. 2018
  • But Ralph’s speech was the kind of showbiz alchemy that can’t be manufactured.
    — Shirley Li, The Atlantic, 13 Sep. 2022
  • Minnelli's memoir is packed with anecdotes from throughout her many years in showbiz.
    — Marina Watts, Entertainment Weekly, 10 Mar. 2026
  • Mike Goodridge might have one of the most interesting résumés in showbiz.
    — Lily Ford, HollywoodReporter, 27 Aug. 2025
  • But the tale of stars spinning out of the orbit of the sun that birthed them is a familiar showbiz narrative.
    — Kerry Reid, chicagotribune.com, 18 Sep. 2017

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