How to Use video game in a Sentence

video game

noun
  • My kids didn't play video games.
    — Drake Bentley, jsonline.com, 5 Nov. 2025
  • Kick back and play some video games?
    — Victor Tangermann, Futurism, 8 Jan. 2026
  • He was fed up and went and worked in video games for a while.
    — William Earl, Variety, 13 Mar. 2024
  • Make the video game the product.
    — Joe McKendrick, Forbes.com, 15 Sep. 2025
  • The other was for video games and movies.
    — Chad Graff, New York Times, 3 Feb. 2026
  • This is not just some cartoons or a video game.
    — Zoey Lyttle, PEOPLE, 30 Jan. 2026
  • Which retro video game console is best?
    — Bestreviews, Mercury News, 16 Jan. 2026
  • First, try not to turn this into a video game.
    — Lance Eliot, Forbes.com, 27 Jan. 2026
  • There was no cable; video games weren’t a thing.
    — Kansas City Star, 22 Oct. 2025
  • The store will have a video game room for children.
    — Claire Osborn, Austin American Statesman, 28 Feb. 2026
  • There’s a book series, there’s a video game.
    — Zack Sharf, Variety, 25 Sep. 2025
  • There's a book series, there's a video game.
    — Nick Romano, Entertainment Weekly, 25 Sep. 2025
  • What’s the best retro video game console to buy?
    — Bestreviews, Mercury News, 16 Jan. 2026
  • Gillespie loved to play video games and work on cars.
    — Caroline Zimmerman, Kansas City Star, 25 Sep. 2025
  • No word on when a Lang Lang video game might come out.
    — Benjamin Svetkey, HollywoodReporter, 22 Oct. 2025
  • There are few things Chisholm loves more than playing video games.
    — Chris Kirschner, New York Times, 2 Oct. 2025
  • A lot more than video games goes into those numbers.
    — Tony Maglio, HollywoodReporter, 29 Oct. 2025
  • These are the top gadgets for taking your video games on the go.
    — Daniel Thorp-Lancaster, WIRED, 10 Dec. 2024
  • Others look more like stills from a video game or a lucid dream.
    — WIRED, 21 Mar. 2023
  • But of course the video game didn’t have any narrative.
    — William Earl, Variety, 8 Sep. 2025
  • The two would play video games together for hours.
    — Nathan Pilling, Kansas City Star, 12 May 2026
  • Wii Sports is the third-best-selling video game of all time.
    — Alexander Kaplan, The Washington Examiner, 20 Mar. 2026
  • The video game onslaught is upon us.
    — Gabriel Zamora, PC Magazine, 4 Oct. 2025
  • My video game knowledge gave me Toad, so that helped things along.
    — Paul Tassi, Forbes.com, 1 Sep. 2025
  • Here’s five of my favourite books on the history of video games.
    — Joshua Lamb, Forbes.com, 28 Aug. 2025
  • The video game takes place between the prequel spinoff and the first film.
    — James Brizuela, MSNBC Newsweek, 1 Aug. 2025
  • His players don’t appear in video games.
    — Sam Blum, New York Times, 9 Mar. 2026
  • The pair had returned home from school and had been playing video games.
    — Minyvonne Burke, NBC news, 13 Feb. 2026
  • The teen had been playing video games in the room before he was killed.
    — Dan Raby, CBS News, 6 Feb. 2026
  • For decades, studios have struggled to adapt video games for the big screen.
    — Alison Foreman, IndieWire, 16 Apr. 2026

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