How to Use big-budget in a Sentence

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  • Think about how a big-budget movie might cover the eclipse.
    — Douglas Goodwin, The Conversation, 1 Apr. 2024
  • In recent years, big-budget games have been known to take up to half a decade or more to create.
    — Gene Park, Washington Post, 6 Mar. 2024
  • Still missing from the top 10 is Prime Video’s big-budget spy series Citadel.
    — Rick Porter, The Hollywood Reporter, 8 June 2023
  • Part Two to restore your faith in big-budget, big-screen moviegoing.
    — Taylor Antrim, Vogue, 29 Feb. 2024
  • For the second time in as many years, two big-budget movies with major fanfare will premiere on the same date.
    — Maxwell Millington, Axios, 21 Nov. 2024
  • Hot, the big-budget stage adaptation of Billy Wilder’s 1959 film.
    — Christopher Barnard, Vogue, 12 June 2023
  • But a certain blonde bombshell can’t erase the complete collapse of four big-budget DC movies.
    — Rebecca Rubin, Variety, 27 Dec. 2023
  • The big-budget drama about the creation of the atomic bomb launches just a week later on July 21.
    — Rebecca Rubin, Variety, 16 June 2023
  • When Jim learned this would be a big-budget Hollywood film, he was concerned.
    — Chris Klimek, Smithsonian Magazine, 19 Oct. 2023
  • During my tests, last year’s Steam Deck battery would last up to three hours for modern, big-budget games.
    — Gene Park, Washington Post, 9 Nov. 2023
  • In 1945, Hollywood set in motion its first big-budget movie drama about the making and use of the atomic bomb.
    — Elvia Limón, Los Angeles Times, 21 July 2023
  • Instead, the big-budget Warner Bros. prequel iced it over.
    — Brooks Barnes, New York Times, 26 May 2024
  • Sure, most 20-year-olds have not starred in a globally beloved Netflix sci-fi series as well as half a dozen big-budget films.
    — Gil Kaufman, Billboard, 6 Mar. 2024
  • Besides being the summer’s big-budget movies, they were made in Britain, filmed in part at some of the country’s most esteemed studios.
    — Eshe Nelson, New York Times, 19 Sep. 2023
  • To mount a big-budget musical around Tevye was deemed a risky proposition.
    — Nelson Pressley, Washington Post, 23 June 2023
  • But that's just the beginning of their story, which will be told over two big-budget musical films.
    — Brian Truitt, USA TODAY, 11 Apr. 2024
  • That's just the beginning of their story, which will be told over two big-budget musical films.
    — Kimi Robinson, USA TODAY, 17 Oct. 2024
  • Just one major big-budget film is planned to get a wide theatrical release: F1.
    — Samuel Axon, Ars Technica, 27 Sep. 2024
  • Ever since, Hollywood has leaned on the summer as the season to schedule big-budget event films.
    — Brendan Morrow, The Week, 11 Aug. 2023
  • But big-budget action films have mostly fallen out of favor at the box office.
    — Rebecca Rubin, Variety, 3 Jan. 2024
  • The high-end of the market, those producing big-budget drama series, have been hardest hit.
    — Scott Roxborough, The Hollywood Reporter, 18 Oct. 2023
  • Here’s a very big-budget sci-fi series that has already been renewed for a second season.
    — Matthew Gilbert, BostonGlobe.com, 16 Mar. 2023
  • Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny is falling to No. 2 in its second outing in more bad news for the big-budget tentpole.
    — Pamela McClintock, The Hollywood Reporter, 8 July 2023
  • At this rate, the big-budget sequel will end its box office run as the lowest-grossing MCU movie in history — by a landslide.
    — Rebecca Rubin, Variety, 26 Nov. 2023
  • For a writer with a distinct point of view, a remake of a big-budget action movie from nearly 20 years ago may seem like an odd assignment to take.
    — Reggie Ugwu, New York Times, 12 Feb. 2024
  • Networks used to pump out big-budget, popular shows like ER, and everyone would watch.
    — Angela Watercutter, WIRED, 16 Jan. 2024
  • In 2022, the actress revealed feeling sometimes stifled by the demands of big-budget movie-making.
    — Kate Erbland, IndieWire, 5 Nov. 2024
  • On the flip side, if an auteur director makes a big-budget movie that seems destined to make no one happy, that film has a pretty good chance of failing at the box office.
    — Ryan Faughnder, Los Angeles Times, 8 Oct. 2024
  • From big-budget sequels to nostalgic documentaries, Wisconsin made it to the big screen in a lot of different ways in 2024.
    — Chris Foran, Journal Sentinel, 26 Dec. 2024
  • Jenkins’ pivot to a big-budget, kid-friendly project for a major studio was always intriguing.
    — Alison Foreman, IndieWire, 17 Dec. 2024

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