How to Use pay-per-view in a Sentence

pay-per-view

noun
  • The main card for the next pay-per-view event on the 2025 UFC schedule is set.
    — Trent Reinsmith, Forbes.com, 8 June 2025
  • The games in this league would have been broadcast on pay-per-view.
    — Michael McCann, Sportico.com, 4 Dec. 2024
  • The main and co-main event make for a strong pair of fights atop UFC 311 ‘s pay-per-view card.
    — Brian Mazique, Forbes, 23 Nov. 2024
  • Two title fights sit at the top of the next pay-per-view on the UFC schedule.
    — Trent Reinsmith, Forbes.com, 20 May 2025
  • Check out the full card below, and stream UFC 301 on pay-per-view here.
    — Rudie Obias, Variety, 4 May 2024
  • Check out the full card below, and stream UFC 300 on pay-per-view here.
    — Rudie Obias, Variety, 13 Apr. 2024
  • The Father’s Day 100 will be streamed on a pay-per-view basis on midwesttour.tv, racingamerica.tv and tracktv.com.
    — Dave Kallmann, Journal Sentinel, 13 June 2023
  • Luckily, none of the fights that were pulled from the lineup came from the pay-per-view portion of the show.
    — Brian Mazique, Forbes, 8 Mar. 2025
  • The middle prelims start at 8 p.m. ET, and the main card, which is the pay-per-view portion, starts at 10 p.m. ET.
    — Brian Mazique, Forbes, 17 Aug. 2024
  • The next pay-per-view card on the 2025 UFC schedule is nearly upon us.
    — Trent Reinsmith, Forbes, 25 Feb. 2025
  • The pay-per-view features a pair of world championship fights.
    — Brian Mazique, Forbes.com, 8 May 2025
  • How much do Jones-Pettis tickets and pay-per-view cost?
    — Dave Kallmann, Journal Sentinel, 29 Mar. 2023
  • The first pay-per-view of the year finished with an entertaining main card.
    — Brian Mazique, Forbes, 19 Jan. 2025
  • These battles are presented for the world as pay-per-view sports.
    — Giri Nathan, New York Times, 28 Apr. 2023
  • That fight could wind up being a main event scrap on a Fight Night card or a part of a pay-per-view later this year.
    — Brian Mazique, Forbes, 24 Jan. 2025
  • Rogan said on the pay-per-view broadcast when Trump walked into the arena.
    — Scott Thompson, Fox News, 17 Nov. 2024
  • While Smackdown is available to watch for free, the WWE still has a number of events on its pay-per-view schedule.
    — Tim Chan, Variety, 18 Aug. 2023
  • Rosas did not let that decision loss, which came on the pay-per-view portion of UFC 287, get him down or stick with him.
    — Trent Reinsmith, Forbes, 10 Sep. 2024
  • The boxing match is streamable online as a pay-per-view event for $74.95 for Prime Video subscribers.
    — Rudie Obias, Variety, 15 June 2024
  • Some of the numbered events — formerly pay-per-views — will be simulcast on CBS.
    — Tony Maglio, HollywoodReporter, 11 Aug. 2025
  • Now, Davis and Roach are seemingly locked in for a pay-per-view rematch later this year.
    — Brian Mazique, Forbes.com, 27 Mar. 2025
  • The country hosts — in what feels like the final boss of late-stage capitalism — pay-per-view WWE events.
    — Lewis Gordon, The Verge, 1 Dec. 2023
  • But the poetry of the bout itself doesn’t always sell pay-per-view packages.
    — Brady Brickner-Wood, New York Times, 11 Oct. 2023
  • Twitter users dropped jokes about a possible pay-per-view fight.
    — Jonah Valdez, Los Angeles Times, 13 May 2023
  • And that is now the highest-grossing digital pay-per-view of all time and the sixth highest-grossing pay-per-view of all time.
    — Tatiana Siegel, Variety, 31 Jan. 2024
  • The main event can be live-streamed nationally via pay-per-view purchase through ESPN+.
    — Ben Verbrugge, MSNBC Newsweek, 19 July 2025
  • This event is streaming on ESPN+ with pay-per-view access, which goes for $79.99 for subscribers only.
    — Rudie Obias, Billboard, 25 Oct. 2024
  • Specifically, the pay-per-view will determine who goes to All In for their world title shots.
    — Ryan Gaydos, FOXNews.com, 22 June 2026
  • While the first few episodes are delivered free to hook the viewer, subsequent episodes are pay-per-view or consumed through a weekly or monthly pass.
    — Liz Shackleton, Deadline, 19 June 2026
  • That equals a viewership more than 20 times the average pay-per-view event over the past two years, per the streamer.
    — Ethan Shanfeld, Variety, 18 June 2026

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