How to Use attendance in a Sentence

attendance

noun
  • The team wants to double attendance at its games this season.
  • Her grades are good, but how's her attendance?
  • Attendance is down so far this season.
  • Museum attendances in the city have been increasing in recent years.
  • The team hadn’t made the playoffs for eight straight seasons and had some of the lowest attendance numbers in the NBA.
    José Sánchez Córdova, Dallas News, 28 July 2023
  • If attendance dips on June 16, the entire league will take note.
    Chuck Schilken, Los Angeles Times, 6 June 2023
  • As such, the 20th edition will be held and none of the A-list talent have canceled their attendance.
    Elsa Keslassy, Variety, 9 Oct. 2023
  • But attendance looks strong: Two of the three remaining games to be played in the country have sold out.
    Frances Vinall, Washington Post, 10 Aug. 2023
  • Prince William, who is next in line to be king; his wife, Kate; and their three children were all in attendance.
    Danica Kirka and Jill Lawless, The Christian Science Monitor, 6 May 2023
  • Final attendance soared to 4,200 at the Forum, an all-time record.
    John Hopewell, Variety, 22 Mar. 2024
  • As the Orioles have surged to the top of the AL standings, fans have begun supporting the team in kind with an attendance jump of 31.4%.
    Jacob Calvin Meyer, Baltimore Sun, 21 Aug. 2023
  • In the mid-1970s, attendance had dwindled to barely enough to fill the stadium.
    Lizz Schumer, Peoplemag, 26 Mar. 2024
  • Banks like Goldman Sachs were among the first to push for in-person attendance in early 2022.
    Byprarthana Prakash, Fortune, 24 Aug. 2023
  • But their announced attendance stands last this year, at 3,458 per match.
    Tom Krasovic, San Diego Union-Tribune, 1 July 2023
  • With three weeks left in the season, league attendance has topped 1 million, also a record.
    Emma Healy, BostonGlobe.com, 18 Sep. 2023
  • By 1950, attendance was so universal that those who weren’t in school were called dropouts.
    Alec MacGillis, The New Yorker, 8 Jan. 2024
  • Over the weekend, the Atlantic published a piece on the decline of American church attendance.
    Alexander Hughes, National Review, 4 Aug. 2023
  • News of the Co-Pro lineup comes as the Forum is tracking for yet another all-time record attendance.
    John Hopewell, Variety, 23 Feb. 2024
  • Schools often offer prizes such as awards and gift cards for students who achieve high attendance.
    Kristen Taketa, San Diego Union-Tribune, 1 Mar. 2024
  • The event became what is to this day the highest box office attendance for a Godzilla film in Japan’s history.
    Richard Newby, The Hollywood Reporter, 9 Dec. 2023
  • Biden claimed that the nation’s interest would be best served by his attendance at Syracuse Law School.
    Neal B. Freeman, National Review, 14 Mar. 2024
  • Some signs that Prince Louis will be at this year's carol concert include his attendance at some major events over the past few months.
    Stephanie Petit, Peoplemag, 20 Nov. 2023
  • Yet his presence was expected—his attendance had been announced in the papers—and the president was a man of his word.
    Ellen Wexler, Smithsonian Magazine, 28 Sep. 2023
  • With the show’s poor attendance at what would be its final in-person event in 2019, and the ESA’s troubles with reviving the show post-pandemic, the writing has been on the wall.
    Megan Farokhmanesh, WIRED, 12 Dec. 2023
  • Once again, Trump’s potential attendance is sure to be the major storyline ahead of the debate.
    Jeremy Barr, Washington Post, 24 Aug. 2023
  • The decision to tie hours to attendance trends also came about as part of the museum's strategic planning process.
    Amy Schwabe, Journal Sentinel, 2 June 2023
  • Foxx, whose attendance was not announced in advance, was there to receive the Vanguard Award for his performance in The Burial.
    Carita Rizzo, Rolling Stone, 5 Dec. 2023
  • The royal family will be hoping that Prince William and Kate's attendance inspires some more luck.
    Simon Perry, Peoplemag, 23 June 2023
  • His attendance is better this year as compared to last, and last year his attendance was better than the year before, too.
    Joe Mutascio, The Indianapolis Star, 18 Mar. 2024
  • Only time, and the Distillers' attendance, will tell if a city that has tried and failed to land an NBA team is capable of making and sustaining that kind of jump.
    The Courier-Journal, 31 May 2023

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