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How to use readership in a sentence

13 example sentences · noun

Readership means the collected readers of a publication. Example: “The village newspaper has a readership of only 200 people.”

Examples of readership by meaning

nounThe collected readers of a publication.

  • The village newspaper has a readership of only 200 people.

nounThe role or office of a reader.

  • the Nora Chadwick Readership in Celtic Studies

More sentences with readership

  • “Cross your fingers that the readership loves it.” Joy crossed her fingers.2011, Jayne Addison, About That Kiss, →ISBN. From the entry cross one's fingers
  • Word of mouth among the one-handed readership would not have been good.2007, Neil Pearson, Obelisk: A History of Jack Kahane and the Obelisk Press, Liverpool University Press, →ISBN, page 401. From the entry one-handed
  • The Hegelian master, for all his violence and terror, still requires literature, names, memory, and readerships—in other words, the public sphere.2015, Allen Feldman, Archives of the Insensible: Of War, Photopolitics, and Dead Memory, →ISBN. From the entry mediology
  • Paradoxically, the deluge of writing itself contributes to declining readership.2013 September 6, Colin Robinson, “Put down the pen and give us all a break”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 189, number 13, page 39. From the entry paradoxically
  • Joan Acocella's polemic against this body of scholarship has had the effect of de-queering Cather for a general readership.2007, Heather Love, Feeling Backward: Loss and the Politics of Queer History, page 74. From the entry de-queer
  • Readership figures are elusive, but fanfic's America Online index page has collected a half million hits in the past year.1997 September 26, Entertainment Weekly, page 84. From the entry fan fiction
  • Meanwhile, nightly news broadcasts and mainstream media publications saw ratings and readerships rise as they tried to parse virus fact from fiction.2021 March 13, David Moscrop, “Trust issues: What we risk losing if the pandemic destroys our faith in institutions”, in The Globe and Mail. From the entry caremonger
  • The conversation between the characters who are soon going to be fast friends raises questions about the readership and the new Anglophone novel.2020 June 26, Bhavya Tiwari, “The Multilingual Anglophone: World Literature and Post-Millennial Literature in Postcolonial India”, in…. From the entry Hindiphone
  • It was decided to adopt the “Oxford” spelling conventions preferred in most British English academic publications, conventions which are most comfortable for an international readership.2007, Éric Brian, Marie Jaisson, Karen George transl., The Descent of Human Sex Ratio at Birth: A Dialogue Between Mathematics, Biology…. From the entry Oxford spelling
  • We refer to offering such delightfully calorie-ful recipes as these desserts, to a readership made up of ladies who love to eat and shouldn’t.1968 May 23, Maxine Buren, “Rich Recipes Bring Gleam to Diner’s Eye”, in The Oregon Statesman, 118th year, number 57, Salem, Ore., page 23. From the entry calorie-ful
  • The right's commentariat peddles anti-science nonsense on a par with anti-vaxxerism and flat-Earth cosmology, eagerly lapped up by the mostly elderly readership of the conservative press.2020 January 4, John Quiggin, “Bushfire smoke's impact will linger long after the air clears”, in The Canberra Times. From the entry anti-vaxxerism

Meaning of readership

  1. noun The collected readers of a publication.
  2. noun The role or office of a reader.

Full definition of readership

Questions about readership in a sentence

How do you use readership in a sentence?
Readership is used as a noun. For example: “The village newspaper has a readership of only 200 people.”
What is a short sentence with readership?
“the Nora Chadwick Readership in Celtic Studies”
What does readership mean?
Readership means the collected readers of a publication.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: readership (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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