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How to use episode in a sentence

40 example sentences · noun

Episode means a discrete but connected event, situation, or period within a broader sequence, narrative, or life course. Example: “It was a most embarrassing episode in my life.”

Examples of episode by meaning

nounA discrete but connected event, situation, or period within a broader sequence, narrative, or life course.

  • It was a most embarrassing episode in my life.
  • The Attorney-General, however, had used this episode, which Martin in retrospect had felt to be a blot on the scutcheon, merely to emphasise the intelligence and resource of the prisoner.1935, Francis Beeding [pseudonym; John Palmer], “10/6”, in The Norwich Victims, →OL
  • Three of the great extinctions appear to have occurred during cold episodes and two during hot episodes.2017, Anthony J. McMichael, Alistair Woodward, Cameron Muir, Climate Change and the Health of Nations, →ISBN, page 81

nounA bounded narrative unit within a television series, constituting a single installment that is structurally discrete...

  • I can't wait till next week’s episode.
  • Plow” are, but even the relatively unheralded episodes offer wall-to-wall laughs and some of the smartest, darkest, and weirdest gags ever Trojan-horsed into a network cartoon with a massive family audience.2012 May 20, Nathan Rabin, “TV: Review: THE SIMPSONS (CLASSIC): ‘Marge Gets A Job’ (season 4, episode 7; originally aired 11/05/1992)”, in...

More sentences with episode

  • He had to take a few weeks off school after a dissociative episode.From the entry dissociative
  • They showed episodes of some awful TV show on our flight.From the entry show
  • I watched one episode of that TV series and now I'm hooked.From the entry hook
  • After several painful episodes, we've decided to adopt code review for all major changes.From the entry code review
  • I've been spoilered, so I doubt I'll be able to enjoy the final episode.From the entry spoiler
  • Did you catch the Up in Smoke tribute in that episode of That '70s Show?From the entry tribute
  • The program is usually pretty good, but last Wednesday's episode was a real snoozer.From the entry snoozer
  • A patient who has experienced a syncopial episode may faint again soon after recovery.From the entry syncopial
  • Even the most bloodlusted fans were unsettled by the gratuitous bloodbath that was the final episode.From the entry bloodlusted
  • The BBC decided not to air the controversial episode.From the entry air
  • Homer relates an episode in the Trojan War that reveals the tragic consequences of the wrath of Achilles.From the entry wrath
  • The first episode of the show goes out on Saturday.From the entry go out
  • The unaired episodes were finally released on DVD.From the entry unaired
  • Because the budget was so low, most episodes of the show had to be monoscenes to avoid building multiple expensive sets.From the entry monoscene
  • While the final episode was made, the show itself was immediately cancelled after the penultimate episode i.e. the final episode never aired.From the entry i.e.
  • I'm not a fan of the new Simpsons episodes, but the old reruns have me in stitches, although I've seen them countless times.From the entry rerun
  • The actress's gracious acceptance of being named only in the end credits allowed her character's appearance in the episode to remain a surprise.From the entry gracious
  • On this episode of Interstellar Voyagers From Uranus, our heroes encounter a planet where shrink rays threaten to trap them inside a terrarium as an alien's pets!From the entry shrink ray
  • Previous seasons had as many as ten, nine, and eight episodes total.2026 April 10, Leah Marilla Thomas, “Here’s When Every Episode of ‘Hacks’ Season 5 Drops”, in Cosmopolitan. From the entry baby
  • Think about using the experience of a negative limerent episode as an opportunity to improve your life.2025 September 20, Tom Bellamy, quoted in: Marielle Segarra, Clare Marie Schneider, and Malaka Gharib, A neuroscientist explains how to…. From the entry limerent
  • To concentrate on the bigger picture, I must neglect certain episodes of territorial reform.2025 April 15, Stephan Rindlisbacher, “Notes”, in Borders in Red: Managing Diversity in the Early Soviet Union (NIU Series in Slavic, East…. From the entry okruh
  • That new episode for Gushing Over Magical Girls left me speechless.2024 January 31, @1Pvzgamer, X (post). From the entry sesbian lex
  • We finally got Kimichie and they couldn't even wait for a single episode to break them apart.2024 July 18, u/Ranjith_Unchained, “The Boys - 4x08 "Assassination Run" - Post-Episode Discussion”, in r/TheBoys (Reddit post), archived…. From the entry Kimichie
  • The episode help inspire the character Gordon Gekko in the film Wall Street.2023 May 28, Antoine Gara, “A star corporate raider brought down to earth”, in FT Weekend, London: The Financial Times Ltd., →ISSN, →OCLC…. From the entry corporate raider
  • This was the first episode of Degrassi I saw, and it was a formative episode.2022 February, Kosoko Jackson, “Please, Sir, Can I Have Some More: How Bread Crumbs of Queer Characters in Entertainment Helped Me…. From the entry rep
  • It has attracted tweets, theories, memes, discussions, all on a rolling boil since the first episode.2022 October 17, Stuart Heritage, “Now it’s over, let’s come out and say it: The Rings of Power was a stinker”, in The Guardian. From the entry rolling boil
  • Of the two episodes, “Mortshall” is slightly weaker, while still being pretty darn good.2021 September 6, Zack Handlen, “Rick And Morty ends its fifth season looking for an escape hatch”, in AV Club. From the entry darn
  • He guest-starred on a “Star Trek” episode and became a vampire slayer.2021 March 14, John Blake, “Did Black lives matter to Abraham Lincoln? It’s complicated”, in CNN, archived from the original on 12 Oct 2022. From the entry Abraham
  • Oh wow I had totally forgotten how extreeeeeemely queerbaity Sherlock was from the very first episode.2020 July 4, Yllogique (@Yllogique), Twitter. From the entry queerbaity
  • Parasomnic episodes may seem dramatic but they are almost always harmless.2020 September 24, Anders Bortne, Sleepless: A Thousand Wakeful Nights, One Solution, Sandstone Press Ltd, →ISBN. From the entry snoregasm
  • Individual episodes are still thrilling and often quite striking, give or take some pitch-black battle scenes.2019 May 19, Alex McLevy, “The final Game Of Thrones brings a pensive but simple meditation about stories (newbies)”, in The A.V. Club…. From the entry trade-off
  • More than any other episode to date, “The Last Of The Starks” heralds Daenerys’ heel turn.2019 May 5, Danette Chavez, “Campaigns are Waged On and Off the Game Of Thrones Battlefield (Newbies)”, in The A.V. Club, archived from…. From the entry heel turn
  • It’s an episode of characters returning to their own pasts as different people.2017 July 16, Brandon Nowalk, “Chickens and dragons come home to roost on Game Of Thrones (newbies)”, in The Onion AV Club, archived from…. From the entry undead
  • Unfortunately, nothing much happens in the rest of the episode either.2017 July 16, Brandon Nowalk, “Chickens and Dragons Come Home to Roost on Game of Thrones (Newbies)”, in The A.V. Club, archived from the…. From the entry montage
  • What’s so great about the episode is it takes its time.2017 August 27, Brandon Nowalk, “Game Of Thrones slows down for the longest, and best, episode of the season (newbies)”, in The Onion AV…. From the entry set piece

Meaning of episode

  1. noun A discrete but connected event, situation, or period within a broader sequence, narrative, or life course.
  2. noun A bounded narrative unit within a television series, constituting a single installment that is structurally discrete yet interrelated with the series as a whole.

Full definition of episode

Questions about episode in a sentence

How do you use episode in a sentence?
Episode is used as a noun. For example: “It was a most embarrassing episode in my life.”
What is a short sentence with episode?
“I can't wait till next week’s episode.”
What does episode mean?
Episode means a discrete but connected event, situation, or period within a broader sequence, narrative, or life course.

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