How to Use word-of-mouth in a Sentence

word-of-mouth

1 of 2 adjective
  • Still, those mixed scores don’t bode well for word-of-mouth.
    — Rebecca Rubin, Variety, 24 Mar. 2025
  • And much of its word-of-mouth buzz can be traced back to the people who made it.
    — Brenna Ehrlich, Rolling Stone, 5 Sep. 2024
  • Meloy had a word-of-mouth hit, and the crowds exploded.
    — Josh Crutchmer, Rolling Stone, 25 Feb. 2025
  • Two years ago, Dancing on the Edge was something of a word-of-mouth hit.
    — Jon Blistein, Rolling Stone, 21 July 2025
  • With just a word-of-mouth warning, one man raced 25 miles to save guests at his Texas RV park.
    — Rebecca Morin, USA Today, 9 July 2025
  • So were their listeners, who learned of the jam sessions through word-of-mouth and sat on the lawn.
    — George Varga, San Diego Union-Tribune, 8 June 2025
  • But then the film, through word-of-mouth, was connecting with people.
    — Carolyn Giardina, The Hollywood Reporter, 12 Jan. 2024
  • However, tepid word-of-mouth will knock it off the must-see list of many movie goers.
    — David Hunter, The Hollywood Reporter, 13 July 2023
  • Whether that good word-of-mouth can lift up the opening will pan out tomorrow.
    — J. Kim Murphy, Variety, 7 June 2025
  • The 30-second rule appears to be a word-of-mouth instruction from the viral videos.
    — Alanna Martine Kilkeary, Glamour, 20 Dec. 2024
  • Netflix’s word-of-mouth breakout Adolescence climbed to the top of the U.S. streaming charts in late March.
    — Rick Porter, HollywoodReporter, 17 Apr. 2025
  • There’s a word-of-mouth element to the scene: When fans hear the genuine article, the news travels.
    — Charlie Warzel, The Atlantic, 22 June 2024
  • If Indy 5 proves to be a critical hit, that will provide the runway for word-of-mouth buzz to grow.
    — Vulture, 29 June 2023
  • Markle found the brand through word-of-mouth and without any gifting or partnership, the Naadam spokesperson said.
    — Rosemary Feitelberg, WWD, 25 Mar. 2025
  • Dale Houston said the best advertisement has been word-of-mouth.
    — Thomas Goodwin Smith, Baltimore Sun, 30 June 2023
  • The firm has a sterling reputation thanks to word-of-mouth among their law-abiding clients.
    — Sophie Brookover, Vulture, 2 May 2024
  • Many of them knew each other from work or school before moving to the estates, which relied on word-of-mouth for sales.
    — Courtland Milloy, Washington Post, 31 Oct. 2023
  • Back in those pre-internet days, Cline’s ubiquity was word-of-mouth, but deeply felt.
    — Holly Gleason, Variety, 24 Apr. 2024
  • The fact is, reputation travels, and so does word-of-mouth among managers.
    — Ebony Flake, Essence, 18 Jan. 2024
  • To date, all of my clients slid into my DMs and every project has been [secured through] word-of-mouth referrals.
    — Sydney Gore, Architectural Digest, 6 Feb. 2025
  • Next, there was word-of-mouth that brought more attention to the program returning from a 28-year hiatus.
    — Shelby Dermer, The Enquirer, 20 Feb. 2023
  • It was founded as a volunteer choir in 2010 through a series of word-of-mouth meetings in homes and garages by Jonathan Cole and Joshua Vickery.
    — Matthew J. Palm, Orlando Sentinel, 11 July 2024
  • The Raincoats were an underground word-of-mouth legend, yet their mystique just grew.
    — Rob Sheffield, Rolling Stone, 15 Mar. 2023
  • The studio also has launched a massive word-of-mouth screening program with 400 across the United States and Canada.
    — Tatiana Siegel, Variety, 3 June 2023
  • But word-of-mouth buzz can boost a movie significantly.
    — Time, 25 July 2023
  • The movie has also garnered solid word-of-mouth on social media.
    — Elsa Keslassy, Variety, 4 Nov. 2023
  • The celebrity crowd has slowly begun to rediscover them by word-of-mouth, or via their stylists.
    — Samantha Conti, WWD, 19 Feb. 2025
  • Beyond the website, the filmmakers used posters, teaser trailers and word-of-mouth buzz to create a sense of mystery.
    — Maddie Garfinkle, Peoplemag, 30 July 2024
  • This has led to strong word-of-mouth, what appears to be a strong opening weekend for a brand new movie IP, and hopefully some box office legs to match.
    — Erik Kain, Forbes, 1 Apr. 2023
  • Most are freelancers, hearing about potential gigs via word-of-mouth, an old boss or Facebook groups.
    — Nicole Fell, The Hollywood Reporter, 27 Feb. 2025

word of mouth

2 of 2 noun phrase
  • Over the decades, word of mouth brought more and more gay people to the area.
    — Sonja Anderson, Smithsonian Magazine, 30 June 2023
  • But a lot of the movie’s success was also down to word of mouth.
    — Andreas Wiseman, Deadline, 20 May 2025
  • Most of their members have joined through word of mouth.
    — Jenna Thompson, Kansas City Star, 6 Feb. 2025
  • That can be through phone records or texts or word of mouth from the others.
    — Amy Dickinson, Washington Post, 23 Sep. 2023
  • So a lot of people get online and the Google search or word of mouth.
    — Mará Rose Williams, Kansas City Star, 27 Jan. 2025
  • The best way to find a makeup artist is often word of mouth.
    — Sophia Panych, Allure, 28 Oct. 2024
  • The event crowds doubled in a year as word of mouth spread about the first show’s success.
    — Adriana Pérez, Chicago Tribune, 30 June 2024
  • The Idea of You seems to have been buoyed by great word of mouth, out of South by Southwest of all places.
    — Mikey O'Connell, The Hollywood Reporter, 4 May 2024
  • All had learned about the Pisidia Heritage Trail through word of mouth.
    — Joshua Hammer, Smithsonian Magazine, 15 May 2024
  • But that series took a little while to spool up through word of mouth.
    — Paul Tassi, Forbes, 21 Apr. 2023
  • The chain is also hoping to get some buzz the old-fashioned way, through word of mouth.
    — Danielle Wiener-Bronner, CNN, 20 June 2024
  • Through word of mouth, she's heard Norman might be in Phoenix — more than 100 miles away from home.
    — Sasha Hupka, The Arizona Republic, 5 June 2024
  • The residencies last a few weeks, long enough for word of mouth to spread.
    — Ann Abel, Forbes.com, 12 June 2025
  • Each of the 2023 productions ran for one weekend, too short a time for word of mouth to spread.
    — Manuel Mendoza, Dallas News, 8 Aug. 2023
  • Many keep coming back and bring others with them through word of mouth.
    — Igor Epshteyn, Forbes.com, 9 July 2025
  • Around 40 percent of dog owners found their pet through word of mouth.
    — William Lambers, Newsweek, 10 Mar. 2025
  • The film expanded even further to a peak of over 1,900 screens the week after and kept word of mouth strong.
    — Brian Welk, IndieWire, 2 Oct. 2024
  • Most people find out about it through word of mouth or on Facebook.
    — The Courier-Journal, 23 Feb. 2024
  • Most people find out about it through word of mouth or on Facebook.
    — Jolene Almendarez, The Courier-Journal, 12 June 2024
  • But after the first previews [in London], the word of mouth propelled it.
    — Baz Bamigboye, Deadline, 28 May 2025
  • The book sold steadily, through word of mouth, and got a good review in a newspaper.
    — Haruki Murakami, The New Yorker, 1 July 2024
  • But even that movie opened big with $106 million and then failed to leg out, proving word of mouth just wasn’t there.
    — Zack Sharf, Variety, 13 Nov. 2023
  • The question is whether the marketing spend is enough to keep the word of mouth going and bring in more bodies.
    — Anthony D'alessandro, Deadline, 9 Oct. 2024
  • Much of the traffic came through social, which is to say, digital word of mouth.
    — Fidel Martinez, Los Angeles Times, 27 Apr. 2023
  • Word spread and in a few short days, the community has turned it around for Ahmed through Facebook and word of mouth.
    — Pamela McLoughlin, Hartford Courant, 11 Jan. 2024
  • Some of the best travel finds come through word of mouth, so why wouldn’t that be the case with your clothing essentials?
    — Sanah Faroke, Travel + Leisure, 1 June 2024
  • Thanks in large part to home video and word of mouth, the nearly three-hour movie about three cousins from East L.A. became a cult classic.
    — Fidel Martinez, Los Angeles Times, 27 Apr. 2023
  • And then midway through, word of mouth made that album resurface.
    — Jason Lipshutz, Billboard, 16 Apr. 2025
  • The horse community is a very old school community in that relies on word of mouth.
    — Angela Velasquez, Sourcing Journal, 8 July 2025
  • But relying on social media and word of mouth is unsustainable long term, Ocampo said.
    — Denise Chow, NBC news, 3 July 2025

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