How to Use tabloid in a Sentence

tabloid

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  • She is used to seeing her name in the tabloids.
  • Many around the world know Springer from his over-the-top tabloid TV show.
    — Scott Wartman, The Enquirer, 9 June 2023
  • Sources talk to the tabloids about how Selena feels about the news.
    — Alyssa Bailey, ELLE, 3 Mar. 2023
  • The New York tabloids had headlines about how my life was over.
    — Brent Lang, Variety, 11 May 2023
  • Even Adams’s staunchest tabloid ally, the Post, has turned on him.
    — Curbed, 5 Dec. 2022
  • The Sun cited the teen's mother, who told the tabloid her child had used the money to fund a crack cocaine habit.
    — Justin Klawans, The Week, 9 July 2023
  • The comment comes amidst a discussion around the UK tabloid treatment of Meghan Markle.
    — Town & Country, 8 Jan. 2023
  • Prince Harry is making the case that tabloids are a royal pain.
    — Vulture, 8 June 2023
  • The tabloid’s front page showed Snyder strapped to the electric chair, a black hood over her head as 2,000 volts coursed through her body.
    — Robert Klara, Smithsonian Magazine, 12 Jan. 2023
  • Larkin, in the email, referenced some of the strip club, escort and massage ads that long appeared in the print tabloids.
    — Richard Ruelas, USA TODAY, 2 Aug. 2023
  • Across the dozens of pages of documents, the prince detailed the impact the tabloids have had on his personal life.
    — Larisha Paul, Rolling Stone, 6 June 2023
  • Posh and Becks, as the tabloids called them—nice short words, great big headlines—were a celebrity match made in heaven.
    — Rebecca Mead, The New Yorker, 19 Oct. 2023
  • The website, Backpage, got its name from the literal back page of classified ads on the back of the tabloid.
    — Richard Ruelas, The Arizona Republic, 24 Jan. 2024
  • In 2002, the actor was photographed in bed with three other women by a British tabloid.
    — Emma Kershaw, Peoplemag, 27 Feb. 2023
  • Photos of mysterious objects in the loch still make the news — at least in tabloids.
    — Stephen C. George, Discover Magazine, 23 Jan. 2024
  • The next step was the debut of Baseball Weekly in 1991, a tabloid that added minor leagues, college and high school.
    — USA Today, 15 Sep. 2022
  • However, David slams the tabloids in his own statement.
    — Elizabeth Logan, Glamour, 1 Oct. 2023
  • The tabloid noted that the motion picture has been delayed due to the 2023 Hollywood strikes.
    — Abby Montanez, Robb Report, 19 Mar. 2024
  • The new tabloid press made outrage at her practice a recurring theme in its pages.
    — Moira Donegan, The New Yorker, 17 Jan. 2024
  • The coronation is just a few days before the first of Harry's lawsuits against the British tabloid press goes to trial.
    — Brian Melley, ajc, 5 May 2023
  • The tabloid promised 12 packets of vegetable seeds for every reader.
    — Jennifer Hassan, Washington Post, 22 Feb. 2023
  • In fact, celebrity unions that go array in record-short timing are more par for the course, as chronicled in the tabloids.
    — Vogue, 6 Oct. 2023
  • Staffers worked all weekend to put out a 48-page tabloid and a glossy collectible magazine.
    — USA Today, 15 Sep. 2022
  • So the older, more established papers picked up tactics from the tabloids.
    — Carolyn Kellogg, Los Angeles Times, 26 May 2023
  • White eventually started to wear the same outfit to every game to try to deter the tabloids.
    — Carly Thomas, The Hollywood Reporter, 7 Nov. 2023
  • But for those not inclined to believe the British tabloid, Matthew Belloni at Puck now reports this rumor is, in fact, true.
    — Brendan Morrow, The Week, 3 Jan. 2023
  • The prince’s younger brother, Harry, has claimed that William was not above dishing dirt about family members to the tabloids.
    — Mark Landler, New York Times, 7 Feb. 2024
  • The contents of this letter became public anyway and were published in the Mail on Sunday tabloid.
    — Sonia Rao, Washington Post, 15 Dec. 2022
  • In 1997, the real-life relationship, which, even now, I’m conditioned to call an affair, was in all the tabloids.
    — E. Tammy Kim, The New Yorker, 8 Dec. 2023
  • But the aha moment came during the summer of 2015 when the tabloids went to town condemning the topless women in body paint hustling for tips in Times Square.
    — Karrie Jacobs, Curbed, 12 Oct. 2023
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tabloid

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  • To him, the 2003 stuff in Madrid, the tabloid stuff was really tough for him.
    — Mikey O'Connell, The Hollywood Reporter, 18 Oct. 2023
  • Tom’s lowlife New York has the grit of tabloid crime-scene photos.
    — Judy Berman, TIME, 4 Apr. 2024
  • The comment led to a series of splashy headlines from the tabloid press.
    — Elise Taylor, Vogue, 22 Feb. 2024
  • For some Britons, Charles and William aren’t just tabloid figures.
    — Matt Ford, The New Republic, 5 May 2023
  • The Duke of Sussex's hatred of the tabloid press is also weaved throughout the book.
    — Lauren Said-Moorhouse, CNN, 10 Jan. 2023
  • If there’s an upside to tabloid headlines and heartache, Madix seems to have found it.
    — Marianne Garvey, CNN, 29 Mar. 2024
  • The early 2000s were a cesspool of tabloid headlines for celebrities like Lopez.
    — Tomás Mier, Rolling Stone, 14 June 2022
  • At the time, Hilton’s rep attempted to distance her from the tabloid scandal.
    — Ethan Shanfeld, Variety, 16 Jan. 2024
  • But even so, a tabloid reporter bribed a nurse to say that Audrey had only three months to live.
    — Town & Country, 28 June 2023
  • Prince Harry was a no-show on the first day of a court showdown with a British tabloid publisher.
    — Elvia Limón, Los Angeles Times, 6 June 2023
  • There is, however, a thick archive of tabloid reports from the time.
    — Elise Taylor, Vogue, 14 Dec. 2023
  • There are few genres of writing quite so evocative as the tabloid headline.
    — Daniel Rodgers, Vogue, 25 Oct. 2023
  • According to tabloid sources, Harry and Meghan were hoping for a ride home with them.
    — Joseph Wilkinson New York Daily News (tns), al, 24 July 2023
  • Kimmel threatened to sue Rodgers over the remark, turning the conflict into a tabloid saga for the past week.
    — Stephen Battaglio, Los Angeles Times, 13 Jan. 2024
  • If the story feels ripped from the headlines, that’s because the film is loosely inspired by the Mary Kay Letourneau tabloid scandal of the late-1990s.
    — Ethan Shanfeld, Variety, 1 Dec. 2023
  • The couple's tabloid lawsuit may have led to Meghan's miscarriage.
    — Chelsey Sanchez, Harper's BAZAAR, 15 Dec. 2022
  • The wilder look led to tabloid headlines but went down just fine with his wife of 23 years, actress Catherine Zeta-Jones.
    — Bryan Alexander, USA TODAY, 12 Apr. 2024
  • The tabloid battle is a financial boon for both bands, who fan the flames by releasing singles on the same day in 1995.
    — Marc Weingarten, Los Angeles Times, 24 Feb. 2023
  • To add higher stakes, the young, hot cast of actors were becoming tabloid, paparazzi and stan bait.
    — Brittany Spanos, Rolling Stone, 14 Jan. 2023
  • Upon Madeleine’s acquittal, a new life of fame, wealth and tabloid celebrity awaits — until the truth comes out.
    — Elsa Keslassy, Variety, 17 May 2023
  • The video also poked fun at the tabloid frenzy around their relationship.
    — Ashley Hume, Fox News, 20 Feb. 2024
  • The road to getting her work and her beliefs closer to alignment has been littered with tabloid headlines and heartache.
    — Natalie Weiner, Variety, 28 Nov. 2023
  • Among celebrities, mug shots are staples of tabloid gossip.
    — Ellen Wexler, Smithsonian Magazine, 3 Apr. 2023
  • Charles, Harry writes, doesn't comprehend the awfulness of the tabloid treatment of Meghan Markle.
    — Town & Country, 10 Jan. 2023
  • A few weeks later, the two began dating, and the quirky couple captured tabloid media.
    — M. J. Corey, The New Yorker, 27 Aug. 2022
  • Fall Out Boy updated the tune with a similar jumble of news and tabloid references from 1989 to the present.
    — Paul Grein, Billboard, 28 June 2023
  • The constant tabloid attention during that time left scars.
    — Charlotte Triggs, Peoplemag, 16 Aug. 2023
  • For six months, the assault case records were public, and Dunn feared his story would become tabloid fodder in the business press.
    — Jessica Mathews, Fortune, 18 Oct. 2022
  • The tabloid photographs excluded two key characters, the killer and me.
    — Eren Orbey, The New Yorker, 20 Nov. 2023
  • Chambers, then 19, strangled Jennifer Levin, 18, to death in the case that became a tabloid sensation.
    — Celina Tebor, CNN, 29 July 2023

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