How to Use tentpole in a Sentence

tentpole

noun
  • Amid this cast, Cruise is the tentpole that holds up this film.
    — Luke MacY, The Enquirer, 11 July 2023
  • The crew of the tentpole next door have stolen the swordfish, too.
    — Jack King, Vulture, 27 Oct. 2024
  • There’s been such a push and pull about wanting tentpole movies and then small movies.
    — Times Staff, Los Angeles Times, 16 Mar. 2021
  • There were simply no tentpole events to build the story around.
    — Eric Ravenscraft, WIRED, 4 Sep. 2023
  • Some new titles are still on the way, but there aren't many wave-making tentpoles.
    — Eric Ravenscraft, WIRED, 18 Oct. 2024
  • And by the new year, tentpole is aiming to hit the $1 billion mark.
    — Rebecca Rubin, Variety, 21 Dec. 2022
  • But the law reached well beyond the tentpoles of the gig economy.
    — Chris Morris, Fortune, 3 Oct. 2019
  • This is a major sci-fi franchise tentpole… that has an overture.
    — David Ehrlich, IndieWire, 20 Aug. 2025
  • With no tentpole movies to lure them in, audiences have even more reasons to stay away.
    — Cara Buckley, New York Times, 27 Oct. 2020
  • Drive down the cost of health care This is one of Braun's tentpole issues.
    — Kayla Dwyer, The Indianapolis Star, 5 Dec. 2024
  • And a giant title card lands with the swagger of a studio tentpole.
    — Dave Quinn, PEOPLE, 27 Apr. 2026
  • Could Gadot carry a summer tentpole movie in her first leading role?
    — James Hibberd, PEOPLE.com, 25 Dec. 2017
  • Debuting just a handful of tentpole shows early on was a feature, not a bug.
    — Josef Adalian, Vulture, 11 Mar. 2021
  • Again, tentpoles need to tentpole if the box office wants to see growth on 2024.
    — Brian Welk, IndieWire, 13 Oct. 2025
  • There are a number of expensive tentpoles due out in the coming months that filmed overseas.
    — Kimberly Nordyke, HollywoodReporter, 4 May 2025
  • The streamer’s two flagship tentpoles take different routes to scale.
    — Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 21 June 2026
  • One of the major tentpoles of the rebuild is constructing a team that’s younger and cheaper.
    — Chris Perkins, Sun Sentinel, 28 May 2026
  • The director, who cut his teeth making genre indies, had long dreamed of helming a big tentpole movie.
    — Tracy Brown, Los Angeles Times, 29 Mar. 2024
  • The two actors are longtime friends off screen and now play even longer-time lovers in Marvel's latest tentpole.
    — Devan Coggan, EW.com, 15 Oct. 2021
  • As spring becomes summer, the holiday weekend serves a tentpole to take stock of the season to date.
    — Gabe Lacques, USA TODAY, 29 May 2022
  • Which is not to say its episodes are stopgaps, secondary pursuits to mark the time while the studio works on its next tentpole release.
    — Alexander Chatziioannou, Washington Post, 7 Nov. 2022
  • But Sarhangi says few have made ease of use for everyone and anyone a tentpole of their services.
    — Declan Harty, Fortune, 14 July 2022
  • The tentpole went on to earn over $600 million globally.
    — Etan Vlessing, HollywoodReporter, 19 Feb. 2026
  • Other big-budget tentpoles have less to celebrate.
    — Rebecca Rubin, Variety, 14 June 2026
  • Major studios have pushed back their tentpoles to the fall or, in many cases, all the way to 2021.
    — Jeva Lange, TheWeek, 22 Apr. 2020
  • The last thing either pricey tentpole wants to deal with is a still-robust Chinese blockbuster stealing the show.
    — Scott Mendelson, Forbes, 8 Oct. 2021
  • Mackie, a tentpole in the history of camp's place in fashion, is serving on the board of this year's Gala.
    — Carrie Goldberg, Harper's BAZAAR, 7 May 2019
  • For tapas fans who watched the city’s two tentpole tapas spots close permanently in the past year, Brasa Haya fills a void.
    — Michael Russell, oregonlive, 1 Sep. 2021
  • Arguably, in the past decade, there hasn’t been another right-wing-leaning tentpole that has played such box office levels.
    — Anthony D'alessandro, Deadline, 29 Sep. 2025
  • But one thing the actor is not looking forward to is the politicization of the Marvel tentpole.
    — Zack Sharf, Variety, 30 Jan. 2025

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