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How to use marquee in a sentence

11 example sentences · noun, adjective, verb

Marquee means a large tent with open sides, used for outdoors entertainment. Example: “The text was marqueed at the end of the presentation.”

Examples of marquee by meaning

nounIn graphical editing software, a special selection tool, used to highlight a portion of an image.

  • Rectangular Marquee Tool

adjectiveMost famous; preeminent.

  • Without adoubt, Brees was a marquee player.2012, Joe Tiller, Tiller: Not Your Average Joe, →ISBN
  • Even after a marquee player is traded, he can have a lasting impact on the franchise for which he made his mark.2013, Vince Gennaro, Diamond Dollars: The Economics of Winning in Baseball, →ISBN, page 96
  • Fashion Week is a marquee event providing a consolidated platform for the display of high-quality designer fashion.2013, Kim Williams, Jennifer Laing, Warwick Frost, Fashion, Design and Events, →ISBN, page 89

verbTo display text prominently at the top, as in a video.

  • The text was marqueed at the end of the presentation.

More sentences with marquee

  • He stood under the marquee a few moments, breathing the cold wet air.1957, James Jones, chapter 2, in Some Came Running, New York, N.Y.: Charles Scribner’s Sons, →LCCN, →OCLC, book 1 (The Investment), page 19. From the entry flushedness
  • There is no marquee mode that the game builds itself around, instead offering a compendium of snacky events focussed on variety.2012 May 24, Tom Hoggins, “Dirt Showdown review”, in The Daily Telegraph. From the entry banger racing
  • Without a doubt, Brees was a marquee player.2006, Joe Tiller with Tom Kubat, Tiller: Not Your Average Joe, Champaign, IL: Sports Pub, →ISBN. From the entry marquee player
  • Architectural experts say they cannot recall such a drastic midconstruction downscaling, especially of a building designed by a marquee architect, in this case Norman Foster.2009 February 11, Steve Friess, “Tower Rising in Las Vegas but Now, Not So High”, in New York Times. From the entry midconstruction
  • Notice the early marquee and side art designs, as well as the blue DK cab that they photo shot the game in.2002 October 8, Executor, “DK Jr. prototype cab documented!!!”, in rec.games.video.arcade.collecting (Usenet). From the entry photo-shoot
  • For those, including us, who had come to the sale hamperless, relief was at hand in a refreshments marquee that had been put up near the thatched cottages.1980, The New Yorker (volume 56, part 4, page 26). From the entry hamperless

Meaning of marquee

  1. noun A large tent with open sides, used for outdoors entertainment.
  2. noun A projecting canopy over an entrance, especially one with a sign that displays the name of the establishment or other information of it.
  3. noun Lights that turn on and off in sequence, or scrolling text, as these are common elements on a marquee.

Full definition of marquee

Questions about marquee in a sentence

How do you use marquee in a sentence?
Marquee is used as a noun, adjective and verb. For example: “The text was marqueed at the end of the presentation.”
What is a short sentence with marquee?
“Rectangular Marquee Tool”
What does marquee mean?
Marquee means a large tent with open sides, used for outdoors entertainment.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: marquee (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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