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How to use biz in a sentence

12 example sentences · noun

Biz means business, especially showbusiness. Example: “Good biz for cheapjacks, organs.”

Examples of biz by meaning

nounBusiness, especially showbusiness.

  • Good biz for cheapjacks, organs.1922 February 2, James Joyce, Ulysses, Paris: Shakespeare and Company […], →OCLC
  • I hear it goes like that in the biz.2010, BioWare, Mass Effect 2 (Science Fiction), Redwood City: Electronic Arts, →OCLC, PC, scene: Illium

More sentences with biz

  • Visiting on biz here and a CHPer came in to Starbucks with an HT on his belt.2016 October 5, popnokick, RadioReference.com. From the entry CHPer
  • But once the buzz changed from "gassy" to "sparkling," the biz hit the jackpot.2009, Leonard Sweet, chapter 9, in So Beautiful: Divine Design for Life and the Church, Colorado Springs, Colo.: David C. Cook, →ISBN…. From the entry gassy
  • That’s a lot of Sir Robert Bordens for anyone, let alone for a kid in Canadian show biz.2013 January 3, Guy Macpherson, “Laughs take Paul Myrehaug around the globe”, in The Georgia Straight. From the entry Sir Robert Borden
  • I thought this was other biz, not a shag call.'2011, Ken Bruen, Her Last Call to Louis MacNeice. From the entry brassen
  • “Why would he do that?” “This pony belongs to another customer of mine, Charlie Bun's top rival in the racing biz.2000, Philip Lawson, Muskrat Courage. From the entry mis-shoe
  • The art world isn't as conservative as the music biz.1992 May 8, Christopher Moes, Diamanda Galas, “You Take Power, You Don't Ask For It And That's That”, in Gay Community News. From the entry AIDSphobia
  • Or should I be distinguee and say show biz?"1977, James Fritzhand, Starring, →ISBN, page 119. From the entry distinguee
  • Running a crafty biz means being a Jill of all trades, and you have to be a real self-starter (if you'll pardon the business jargon).2009, Grace Dobush, Crafty Superstar: Make Crafts on the Side, Earn Extra Cash, and Basically Have It All, North Light Books, →ISBN, page 20. From the entry jill of all trades
  • I, of course, felt like I was the Norman Bates of talk show hosts, throwing my mother under the show biz bus and never looking back.2025, Bruce Vilanch, It Seemed Like a Bad Idea at the Time: The Worst TV Shows in History and Other Things I Wrote, Chicago Review Press…. From the entry Norman Bates
  • Joe McDonald told anyone who'd listen that they're just a bunch of sleazebags opposed to everything we stand for, dragging show biz into it, and he was right."2009, Patricia Morrison, California Screamin, Lulu.com, →ISBN, page 90. From the entry flashman

Meaning of biz

  1. noun Business, especially showbusiness.

Full definition of biz

Questions about biz in a sentence

How do you use biz in a sentence?
Biz is used as a noun. For example: “Good biz for cheapjacks, organs.”
What is a short sentence with biz?
“Good biz for cheapjacks, organs.”
What does biz mean?
Biz means business, especially showbusiness.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: biz (page history and authors) and the entries each sentence comes from. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws chose the sentences, left out offensive ones and quotations older than 1900, and marked the word in each. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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