How to Use thriller in a Sentence

thriller

noun
  • His latest novel is a political thriller.
  • Who’s ready for a twisty thriller?
    — Jack Smart, PEOPLE, 16 Sep. 2025
  • And in fact, my next project is a thriller.
    — Damon Wise, Deadline, 16 June 2026
  • The cast for the new heist thriller movie is stacked.
    — Kaycee Sloan, Cincinnati Enquirer, 14 Oct. 2025
  • The last third of the film plays like a thriller and then a tragedy.
    — Taylor Antrim, Vogue, 11 Apr. 2022
  • What makes a thriller thrill is pacing.
    — Rafaela Bassili, Vulture, 10 Sep. 2025
  • The promise of one last thriller.
    — Sean Gregory, Time, 20 Feb. 2026
  • Now that’s a box office thriller.
    — Rebecca Rubin, Variety, 27 Apr. 2026
  • That’s what makes this such a perfect thriller.
    — Mary Ann Grossmann, Twin Cities, 21 Sep. 2025
  • Bound-to-be-bestselling thrillers?
    — Chris Hewitt, Boston Herald, 1 Mar. 2026
  • Talk about a great Scando-crime-thriller.
    — Guy Martin, Forbes.com, 1 Sep. 2025
  • But like on a long-running thriller, each new twist had to top the last.
    — James Poniewozik, New York Times, 21 Sep. 2023
  • But the revival isn’t a sitcom and a crime thriller.
    — Ben Travers, IndieWire, 10 Apr. 2026
  • But writing the thriller did involve many phone calls.
    — Clare Mulroy, USA Today, 11 Oct. 2025
  • People pick up a thriller to get lost, but to be a little afraid.
    — Danielle Parker, CBS News, 7 Feb. 2026
  • This thriller could be a, ahem, cathartic read for the jaded.
    — Clare Mulroy, USA Today, 11 Feb. 2026
  • The Chiefs won 38-35 in a thriller that day.
    — Pete Grathoff, Kansas City Star, 11 May 2026
  • The new movie feels too simple for him, a thriller with only vengeance on its brain.
    — Joshua Rothkopf, Los Angeles Times, 9 Dec. 2023
  • This is the first time for the helmer-scribes to fully delve into the thriller genre.
    — Anna Marie De La Fuente, Variety, 3 Sep. 2025
  • To be clear, in this country, this is still the stuff of B-list thrillers.
    — Sue Halpern, New Yorker, 24 Apr. 2026
  • We are set for yet another thriller of a season.
    — Ricardo Klein, MSNBC Newsweek, 10 Oct. 2025
  • But all of that would make for a standard and rather reductive thriller.
    — Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 28 Aug. 2025
  • This movie takes the lake-house-in-the-middle-of-nowhere thriller to the next level.
    — Lucia Tonelli, Town & Country, 31 May 2022
  • Don’t come here for a thriller about a plane crash, but the pages do turn with remarkable ease.
    — Nicholas Mancusi, Time, 24 Oct. 2022
  • The few weeks before the state tournament is a thriller.
    — Tom Mulherin, Boston Herald, 11 Feb. 2026
  • The thriller follows events in the town as the children shatter the peace.
    — Melanie Goodfellow, Deadline, 22 May 2026
  • The thriller plays out from the perspective of both women.
    — Lynette Rice, Deadline, 9 June 2026
  • The result is a deeply sad drama that’s trying on a thriller’s coat for size.
    — Chris Feil, Vulture, 1 May 2026
  • This means that one book can be a rom-com, the next a mystery novella, the next a steamy thriller.
    — Ct Jones, Rolling Stone, 13 Mar. 2026
  • Tempted by a Banderas shark thriller?
    — Max Goldbart, Deadline, 1 May 2026

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