How to Use airtime in a Sentence

airtime

noun
  • The committee plans to buy radio airtime for the campaign ads.
  • At press time, Reelz has not yet announced the show’s airtime.
    — David Wiegand, San Francisco Chronicle, 2 Nov. 2017
  • There's no way that Chloe would just let someone get more airtime like that.
    — Mark Shrayber, Cosmopolitan, 13 Feb. 2018
  • That’s a lot of airtime to fill, no matter how compelling the event might be.
    — Rob Salkowitz, Forbes, 28 June 2021
  • Stories by and about women don’t get much airtime.
    — Brent Lang, Variety, 16 Feb. 2026
  • In the following week’s episode, the brand got even more airtime.
    — Lindy Segal, Glamour, 18 Dec. 2024
  • Mike and his man bun are, too, despite not getting a date or much airtime this week.
    — Mallorie Sullivan, Cincinnati.com, 4 June 2018
  • Our bush plane pilot, an old-timer with decades of airtime, gave us the safety speech.
    — Lauren Mowery, Forbes, 5 July 2022
  • The problem is that this is the only way for Gia to get any airtime.
    — Tom Smyth, Vulture, 2 July 2025
  • There may just be one more season to go, but that still means a lot of airtime for Pogues.
    — Jason P. Frank, Vulture, 5 Nov. 2024
  • But the one that got the most airtime from senators was his views on vaccines.
    — Swapna Venugopal Ramaswamy, USA TODAY, 14 Feb. 2025
  • The same reporters who laughed at my jokes would continue to give him airtime.
    — Darryl Pinckney, The New York Review of Books, 25 Mar. 2021
  • So giving airtime to the dark side of our nature is a painful, painful moment.
    — David Gelles, New York Times, 27 Feb. 2020
  • Fruits and vegetables get a lot of airtime this time of year, and for good reason.
    — Anna Luisa Rodriguez, Washington Post, 7 June 2023
  • The past few seasons have been dragged down by non-issues stretched out over a dozen episodes to fill airtime.
    — Louis Peitzman, Vulture, 7 Sep. 2021
  • This trait of ‘equal airtime’ is one of the is one of the hallmarks of high performing teams.
    — Alain Hunkins, Forbes, 21 Feb. 2024
  • His calm and steady demeanor might not win him the most airtime, but that’s probably for the best.
    — Lizz Schumer, PEOPLE, 20 Jan. 2026
  • The campaign didn't disclose what time or on which channels the ads would air, or how much the airtime cost.
    — Bloomberg.com, 18 Jan. 2018
  • But the campaign decided to buy very little airtime for the ad.
    — Isabella M. Weber, Foreign Affairs, 15 Jan. 2025
  • Now, on to the parts of the show that didn't involve a network giving free airtime to a bigot!
    — Jay Willis, GQ, 28 June 2017
  • The airtime alone for a 30-second spot this year costs more than $5 million this year.
    — Sandy Cohen, chicagotribune.com, 29 Jan. 2018
  • Redistribute the airtime by design, not by hope.
    — Vibhas Ratanjee, Forbes.com, 1 June 2026
  • The stakes are high since a 30-second spot costs more than $5 million for airtime alone.
    — Mae Anderson, chicagotribune.com, 29 Jan. 2018
  • South Park is switching airtimes for some holiday fun.
    — Bethy Squires, Vulture, 29 Oct. 2025
  • How much money is two years of interest and airtime worth to the Cowboys?
    — David Moore, Dallas News, 13 Mar. 2021
  • In the 52 hours over five days that the trio would hold court at that desk, there had been plenty of hot takes to fill the airtime.
    — Katherine Rosman, New York Times, 13 Nov. 2020
  • The real reason for the instructions is, of course, to eat up our airtime and charge us more money.
    — David Pogue, Scientific American, 1 June 2012
  • Timeless wont be getting any more airtime, at least not on NBC.
    — Jamie Spain, PEOPLE.com, 22 June 2018
  • Josh Hawley and Ted Cruz may struggle for airtime for quite a while.
    — Alex Shephard, The New Republic, 12 Jan. 2021
  • The letter led to Fox’s decision to devote airtime to fact check the claims.
    — Los Angeles Times, 24 Dec. 2020

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