How to Use audience in a Sentence

audience

noun
  • The audience clapped and cheered.
  • Her audience is made up mostly of young women.
  • The concert attracted a large audience.
  • Fans in the audience screamed out the star’s last name.
    — Paul Grein, Billboard, 28 Feb. 2024
  • The cast turns its back on the audience and sings the phrase again.
    — Craig Bruce Smith, Time, 21 Oct. 2022
  • The place is packed and the audience is rapt for the matinee.
    — Peter Marks, Washington Post, 21 Oct. 2022
  • The move is likely to broaden the audience for the event.
    — Brian Steinberg, Variety, 7 Nov. 2023
  • In 1977, audiences watched the couple seem to fall in love live on the show.
    — Sara Sidner, CNN, 19 Aug. 2024
  • This drew a laugh from the audience, most of whom were there for the flurry of notes.
    — Carlo Rotella, Washington Post, 20 July 2022
  • Turns out O'Rourke was in the audience the entire time.
    — Ariana Garcia, Chron, 8 Oct. 2022
  • The audience stretches back through the hall, past one of the two bathrooms and into the kitchen.
    — Jackson Landers, SPIN, 8 June 2023
  • This year’s race had the biggest TV audience for the event in 17 years.
    — Alex Sherman, CNBC, 29 May 2025
  • The urge to protect the artist-audience exchange can form part of the shield, too.
    — Tavi Gevinson, The New Yorker, 24 Nov. 2022
  • The special will be filmed in front of a live audience.
    — Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 11 Nov. 2022
  • In Japan, everyone in the audience does the same thing.
    — Billboard Japan, Billboard, 26 Oct. 2023
  • The way the echo affected how the audience took in his jokes.
    — David Remnick, The New Yorker, 28 Apr. 2024
  • The one work not known by most in the audience was the Mozart’s Symphony K. 16a.
    — Luke Schulze, San Diego Union-Tribune, 16 May 2022
  • The audience gave a wild ovation, but the band demurred.
    — Evan Minsker, Pitchfork, 26 Oct. 2023
  • Yet, the track found its way to social media and the US audience.
    — Quartz, 25 Nov. 2022
  • In the audience was a kid named Ed who used to chase Taylor around the playground and try to beat him up.
    — Andy Greene, Rolling Stone, 18 Feb. 2023
  • The audience always loves the sneak peeks for the biggest movies that are about to be released.
    — Michael Schneider, Variety, 4 May 2023
  • The show’s first reunion episode brought in the highest audience in over two years for the series.
    — Jackie Strause, The Hollywood Reporter, 19 Aug. 2024
  • When the band had run through eight or nine Killers songs, the audience applauded.
    — Patrick Radden Keefe, The New Yorker, 25 Dec. 2023
  • Soon, the dim stage lights brighten and the audience quiets.
    — Kathleen Wong, USA TODAY, 26 Nov. 2022
  • Poe, known for his macabre and Gothic style, was no stranger to audiences.
    — Laura Kiniry, Smithsonian Magazine, 29 Jan. 2025
  • To me, quality can be part of the formula to get audience.
    — Ben Smith, semafor.com, 31 Jan. 2026
  • Bastien often reminds audiences that her own story is shaped by immigration.
    — Edwidge Danticat, New Yorker, 30 Jan. 2026
  • But those posts haven’t always reached their intended audience.
    — Sam Stone, Bon Appetit Magazine, 30 Jan. 2026
  • The audience also spontaneously broke out into just such a chant between songs.
    — Chris Willman, Variety, 30 Jan. 2026
  • The marque is full of artists that can’t let their masterpieces go untouched and instead must keep changing the models for new audiences.
    — Erik Shilling, Robb Report, 30 Jan. 2026

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