How to Use wide-screen in a Sentence

wide-screen

adjective
  • That tech was advanced for its time, but nowadays, the wide-screen format doesn’t stand out as much.
    — Gieson Cacho, Mercury News, 1 Dec. 2025
  • Other scenes use wide-screen to evoke 2010s detective thrillers.
    — Kambole Campbell, Vulture, 9 Dec. 2025
  • Antarctica exists only in wide-screen.
    — Laura Dannen Redman, Robb Report, 29 Mar. 2026
  • People typing and talking on phones can be tedious to watch, but Mackenzie gives his wide-screen images kinetic magnetism.
    — Bob Strauss, San Francisco Chronicle, 19 Aug. 2025
  • The life of the rural region is framed in airy and luminous wide-screen images that recur with a lyrical vision of vast arcs of time amid dramatic social change.
    — Richard Brody, New Yorker, 3 Apr. 2026
  • The Galaxy games helped to establish a newfound sense of importance for game soundtracks even beyond their medium—wide-screen ambition was not just for Hollywood scores.
    — Billie Bugara, Pitchfork, 9 May 2026
  • Set the scene Deliberately designed like a modern-day Acropolis, Amanzoe is poised on a hilltop with wide-screen views of the rolling valleys and smooth seas of the Peloponnese.
    — Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 2 June 2026
  • Fusing whimsical electronics and a full symphony orchestra, the Galaxy soundtracks channeled the wide-screen ambition of Hollywood scores, marking a new era for game music.
    — Billie Bugara, Pitchfork, 9 May 2026
  • The director wrenches apart Ibsen’s terse and precise mechanism and makes room for a proliferation of arresting moments—caught on the wing in wide-screen images, thanks to Sean Bobbitt’s cinematography—that balance tragedy and horror with excitement and wonder.
    — Richard Brody, New Yorker, 17 Oct. 2025
  • VistaVision, a high-resolution wide-screen film format developed by Paramount Pictures engineers in 1954 to compete with Twentieth Century-Fox’s CinemaScope format in Hollywood’s effort to draw viewers away from television and back to movie theaters.
    — Laura Payne, Encyclopedia Britannica, 30 Mar. 2026

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