How to Use top billing in a Sentence

top billing

noun
  • Estévez lived up to his top billing.
    — Jaylon Thompson, Kansas City Star, 30 Jan. 2026
  • The moon and sun share top billing in 2026.
    — Marcia Dunn, Fortune, 28 Dec. 2025
  • The text, which has taken top billing against my will, reigns supreme.
    — Anne Roderique-Jones, SELF, 29 Apr. 2018
  • The red rose takes top billing as the symbol of beauty and love.
    — Betty Cahill, The Denver Post, 13 Feb. 2024
  • But right up there getting top billing is the creamy coconut-milk broth.
    — San Diego Union-Tribune, 17 Dec. 2021
  • Their endorsements alone are enough to give said item top billing on my wish list.
    — ELLE, 12 May 2022
  • Heart Eyes is your first top billing in a major studio movie.
    — Brian Davids, The Hollywood Reporter, 4 Feb. 2025
  • Other people are about to start taking top billing in your life.
    — Tarot Astrologers, chicagotribune.com, 27 Mar. 2022
  • Markov got top billing on the poster, but Grier got top billing onscreen.
    — Odie Henderson, Vulture, 4 Mar. 2024
  • The Trojans’ top freshmen haven’t lived up to their top billing just yet.
    — Ryan Kartje, Los Angeles Times, 14 Oct. 2021
  • Because the melon gets top billing, use sweet, tender (not mushy) fruit.
    — Sarah Martens, Better Homes & Gardens, 15 May 2025
  • Snider, the higher profile artist, was gracious about who should take top billing.
    — Mars Salazar, Austin American Statesman, 17 Nov. 2025
  • But in 2024, the rose once again has top billing in the world of perfume.
    — Kara Nesvig, Allure, 17 Oct. 2024
  • There’s a top billing of Saint Louis and VCU.
    — Steven Louis Goldstein, New York Times, 2 Mar. 2026
  • Ant-Man may get top billing, but Hope is the one driving the action.
    — Angela Watercutter, WIRED, 5 July 2018
  • This is because the mainstream press has ceased giving Afghanistan top billing.
    — Ryan Cooper, The Week, 1 Nov. 2021
  • That’s because top billing goes to the party of the state’s governor.
    — Bobby Caina Calvan, BostonGlobe.com, 29 Apr. 2020
  • Ham and lamb may get top billing, but the real stars of Easter dinner are the sides.
    — Phoebe Fry, Bon Appetit Magazine, 25 Mar. 2026
  • Startlingly, the latter were given top billing and paid more.
    — Radhika Seth, Vogue, 19 Dec. 2025
  • Clare, acting as Irene’s foil, is messy and gives her basest of impulses top billing in her life.
    — Brittany Luse, Vulture, 18 Oct. 2021
  • Krispy Kreme's original melt-in-your-mouth glazed donut will always get top billing on the menu.
    — Brandee Gruener, Southern Living, 9 Sep. 2025
  • Jess Cooney’s has always demanded top billing.
    — Keith Flanagan, Architectural Digest, 6 Feb. 2026
  • Before long, White earned the top billing, racking up more than 40 beers in just a few months.
    — Washington Post, 17 Jan. 2022
  • That’s a switch from May 2017, when the economy got top billing.
    — Christine Mai-Duc, latimes.com, 24 June 2018
  • The Ant-Man 3 poster gives Bill Murray top billing for the movie.
    — Chris Smith, BGR, 28 Nov. 2022
  • Sharing top billing with the Pence, at least from Israel's point of view, will be Putin.
    — Oren Liebermann, CNN, 22 Jan. 2020
  • This year’s performance marks Coldplay’s fifth time with top billing, making the band the first act to do so.
    — Ellise Shafer, Variety, 29 June 2024
  • But by Saturday and Sunday there were light sources vying for top billing.
    — Katie Bain, Billboard, 3 Sep. 2019
  • The writer gets top billing, the researcher gathers the facts, and at least a little, the researcher gets to keep the writer alive.
    — Detroit Free Press, 23 Oct. 2022
  • The talent evaluator was given top billing in this rebuild.
    — Dave Hyde, Sun Sentinel, 10 Jan. 2026

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