How to Use tabloid in a Sentence

tabloid

1 of 2 noun
  • She is used to seeing her name in the tabloids.
  • Running this team to have it in the tabloids.
    — Mark Kern, MSNBC Newsweek, 23 Sep. 2025
  • Anyone who picked up a tabloid in that era knows how that went down over there.
    — Madeleine Marr, Miami Herald, 6 Mar. 2026
  • The tabloids study her every move, but so do the Kennedys.
    — Rafaela Bassili, Vulture, 13 Mar. 2026
  • So much of Odom’s story has been in the news and in tabloids.
    — Jason Jones, New York Times, 1 Apr. 2026
  • Now that he was all grown up, the tabloids followed his every move.
    — Chris Murphy, Vanity Fair, 20 Jan. 2026
  • The posts were first picked up by British tabloid OK!
    — Benjamin Svetkey, HollywoodReporter, 11 Feb. 2026
  • The tabloids, meanwhile, have been shipping them for months.
    — Louisa Thomas, New Yorker, 17 Aug. 2025
  • The New York tabloids had headlines about how my life was over.
    — Brent Lang, Variety, 11 May 2023
  • Affleck is on the same page as Garner about tabloids.
    — Lisa Respers France, CNN Money, 8 Jan. 2026
  • Doja and Quinn’s romance played out in the tabloids.
    — Bethy Squires, Vulture, 26 Sep. 2025
  • And then the national tabloids.
    — Joe Hagan, Vanity Fair, 26 Feb. 2026
  • Sources talk to the tabloids about how Selena feels about the news.
    — Alyssa Bailey, ELLE, 3 Mar. 2023
  • My character follows the tabloids on her new best friend.
    — Savannah Walsh, Vanity Fair, 6 May 2026
  • Trump fed news of his preference for models to the tabloids for most of his life.
    — Ben Smith, semafor.com, 31 Jan. 2026
  • Rupert’s British tabloids, though trashy, have at least been funny.
    — The Week Us, TheWeek, 18 Feb. 2026
  • Many around the world know Springer from his over-the-top tabloid TV show.
    — Scott Wartman, The Enquirer, 9 June 2023
  • Prince Harry is making the case that tabloids are a royal pain.
    — Vulture, 8 June 2023
  • Trump was a real estate tycoon and a fixture in the tabloids.
    — Molly Crane-Newman, New York Daily News, 29 June 2026
  • The new tabloid press made outrage at her practice a recurring theme in its pages.
    — Moira Donegan, The New Yorker, 17 Jan. 2024
  • So the cruelty of the tabloids and the cost on real people’s lives, on the one hand.
    — Cynthia Littleton, Variety, 27 Mar. 2026
  • Even Adams’s staunchest tabloid ally, the Post, has turned on him.
    — Curbed, 5 Dec. 2022
  • And the escapism of the tabloids is something that is, in a way, very soothing for people.
    — Chris Gardner, HollywoodReporter, 17 June 2026
  • Worse, sometimes your friends get desperate for cash and sell stories about you to the tabloids.
    — Stephanie Nolasco , Ashley Papa, FOXNews.com, 15 Nov. 2025
  • That’s the summary that quickly spread across tabloids and celebrity-news sites.
    — Hillary Kelly, The Atlantic, 13 Feb. 2026
  • Where the death of a politician or judge leaks to the tabloid before their constituents are informed about it?
    — Alex Weprin, HollywoodReporter, 7 Apr. 2026
  • But then there are the moments that were played out in tabloids — one of them is the Bryant Park episode.
    — Yvonne Villarreal, Los Angeles Times, 4 June 2026
  • The tabloids began probing their private lives; paparazzi tracked them down.
    — Liz McNeil, PEOPLE, 23 Sep. 2025
  • Photos of mysterious objects in the loch still make the news — at least in tabloids.
    — Stephen C. George, Discover Magazine, 23 Jan. 2024
  • Someone might be stalking you; someone might say something nice to your face and then run out and tell [the tabloids].
    — Maer Roshan, HollywoodReporter, 18 Aug. 2025

tabloid

2 of 2 adjective
  • Then came the tabloid headlines.
    — Daniel De Visé, USA Today, 28 June 2026
  • The tabloid media and paparazzi were on you like a hawk.
    — Jack Irvin, PEOPLE, 30 Apr. 2026
  • At the time, she was really caught up in the tabloid cycle.
    — Ryan Coleman, Entertainment Weekly, 18 June 2026
  • The comment led to a series of splashy headlines from the tabloid press.
    — Elise Taylor, Vogue, 22 Feb. 2024
  • Tom’s lowlife New York has the grit of tabloid crime-scene photos.
    — Judy Berman, TIME, 4 Apr. 2024
  • In this gaudy new tabloid landscape, George made a place for itself.
    — Joy Press, Vanity Fair, 18 Feb. 2026
  • It’s been covered as kind of a salacious tabloid story.
    — Ben Smith, semafor.com, 9 Jan. 2026
  • Within days of the tabloid stories, the legal fight took an odd turn.
    — David Chiu, PEOPLE, 1 May 2026
  • If there’s an upside to tabloid headlines and heartache, Madix seems to have found it.
    — Marianne Garvey, CNN, 29 Mar. 2024
  • For some Britons, Charles and William aren’t just tabloid figures.
    — Matt Ford, The New Republic, 5 May 2023
  • Hilary Duff is so relieved that the tabloid era is behind her.
    — Shania Russell, Entertainment Weekly, 6 Nov. 2025
  • The tabloid media, on the other hand, is not so precise in its verbiage.
    — Emma Sandler, Vogue, 15 Dec. 2025
  • There are few genres of writing quite so evocative as the tabloid headline.
    — Daniel Rodgers, Vogue, 25 Oct. 2023
  • According to the tabloid site, the couple seemed more somber and tense than usual.
    — Lea Veloso, StyleCaster, 27 Sep. 2025
  • There is, however, a thick archive of tabloid reports from the time.
    — Elise Taylor, Vogue, 14 Dec. 2023
  • And so we’re left with the sight of him flipping through the pages of a tabloid magazine that’s all about him.
    — David Ehrlich, IndieWire, 12 Nov. 2025
  • The ruthless tabloid press was quick to stir up controversy.
    — Sheena McKenzie, CNN Money, 7 June 2026
  • But even so, a tabloid reporter bribed a nurse to say that Audrey had only three months to live.
    — Town & Country, 28 June 2023
  • Wasserman has dismissed the tabloid story.
    — Dakota Smith, Los Angeles Times, 24 Feb. 2026
  • The video also poked fun at the tabloid frenzy around their relationship.
    — Ashley Hume, Fox News, 20 Feb. 2024
  • At the time, Hilton’s rep attempted to distance her from the tabloid scandal.
    — Ethan Shanfeld, Variety, 16 Jan. 2024
  • This story has gotten some local coverage, and has since been picked up by the right-wing tabloid press.
    — Amanda Castro hannah Parry, MSNBC Newsweek, 8 Sep. 2025
  • In the midst of success, the famous parents have faced ridicule and been at the center of tabloid fodder.
    — Anna Halkidis, Parents, 9 Sep. 2025
  • To add higher stakes, the young, hot cast of actors were becoming tabloid, paparazzi and stan bait.
    — Brittany Spanos, Rolling Stone, 14 Jan. 2023
  • The issue of big people and small airplane seats has long been tabloid fodder and red meat for message board posters.
    — Shelby Grad, Los Angeles Times, 3 Feb. 2026
  • Showrunner Patrick Macmanus tried hard to tone down the lurid, tabloid nature of the crime.
    — Elisabeth Garber-Paul, Rolling Stone, 24 Oct. 2025
  • The couple's tabloid lawsuit may have led to Meghan's miscarriage.
    — Chelsey Sanchez, Harper's BAZAAR, 15 Dec. 2022
  • To him, the 2003 stuff in Madrid, the tabloid stuff was really tough for him.
    — Mikey O'Connell, The Hollywood Reporter, 18 Oct. 2023
  • But a story that was once largely tabloid fodder has now moved to the Oval Office.
    — Philip Elliott, Time, 12 Nov. 2025
  • The road to getting her work and her beliefs closer to alignment has been littered with tabloid headlines and heartache.
    — Natalie Weiner, Variety, 28 Nov. 2023

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