How to use thriller in a sentence

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• His thrillers are always a gripping read.From the entry read
• The film was a dark psychological thriller.From the entry dark
• For a thriller, that film was really tame.From the entry tame
• The new novel is a psychologically complex thriller.From the entry psychologically
• We watched a heart-racingly tense thriller.From the entry racingly
• This film is a romance, suspense and thriller all rolled into one.2013 February 19, “Film Review – Safe Haven”, in 4 Manchester Women. From the entry thrillmance
• A place for Vimeans to post horror or thriller movies they like or created!2012, Russell Evans, Stand-Out Shorts. From the entry Vimean
• If the stalker thriller “Obsessed,” which opens on Friday, tops the box office, Clinton R.2009 April 22, Michael Cieply, “He’s Behind the Guffaws and the Gore”, in The New York Times. From the entry stalker
• Stands out brightly above other thrillers for originality, ingenuity, local color and unputdownableness.2009, David Downie, quoting Barbara Bray, Paris City of Night: A Novel of Suspense, Skokie, Ill.: MEP, →ISBN, praise page. From the entry unputdownableness
• Actively seeking romance (including category), romantica, women’s fiction, mystery, thrillers and young adult.2007, Chuck Sambuchino, editor, 2008 Guide to Literary Agents, Cincinnati, Ohio: Writer’s Digest Books, →ISBN, page 102. From the entry romantica
• Postscriptum for taxpayers: After having started with the high-temperature thriller we turned to applications of conventional superconductors.2004, L. G. Aslamazov, A. A. Varlamov, The Wonders Of Physics. From the entry postscriptum
• It has not got the compelling mystery of good fantasy nor the unputdownableness of a good thriller.1959 July 11, O.C., “[Book Reviews] COUNT-DOWN by Charles Eric Maine. […]”, in Freedom: The Anarchist Weekly, volume 20, number 28…. From the entry unputdownableness
• The perilous porousness between our online and offline worlds is the spark for Nicolas Padamsee’s tinderbox thriller about two teenage boys.2024 April 27, Sana Goyal, “England Is Mine by Nicolas Padamsee review – battle lines are drawn”, in The Guardian. From the entry porousness
• As a thriller, however, “La Dosis” is slow-burning to a fault, never quite arriving at the boil anticipated.2021 June 8, Dennis Harvey, “‘La Dosis’ Review: Slow-Burn Thriller Imagines War Between Angels of Death in an ICU”, in Variety. From the entry slow-burning
• They wanted something like a '70s thriller, so I based it off of The Man with the Golden Gun poster.2015, Eric Nolen-Weathington, Modern Masters Volume 30: Paolo Rivera, page 40. From the entry base off of
• Fifth place went to the newcomer “Untraceable” (Sony), the horror thriller starring Diane Lane as an F.B.I. cyberwizard.2008 January 28, The New York Times, “Spartans Victorious Over Rambo”, in New York Times. From the entry cyberwizard
• One reason he has avoided reading legal thrillers is that “they seem really to have been written by lawyer-hyphen-authors.”2007, Stephen M. Murphy, What If Holden Caulfield Went to Law School?, page 65. From the entry hyphen
• Except in old-fashioned thrillers and detective stories there doesn't seem to be much talk of thieves and break-ins.2004, Vidiadhar Surajprasad Naipaul, Magic Seeds. From the entry swag bag
• Once the necromantic imperative driving the central characters has been hacked out, the play turns into pointless, gory thriller.1993, Plays and players, numbers 466-477, page 15. From the entry witchless
• Compared with the macho rich-boy fantasies of Rafelson's previous work, there is something rather antiauteurist about this well-crafted film noir thriller.1988 January 8, Jonathan Rosenbaum, “10 From '87”, in Chicago Reader. From the entry antiauteurist
• Ludlum has never come up with a more head-spinning, spine-jolting, intricately mystifying, Armageddonish, in short Ludlumesque, thriller than this.1986, “review of Robert Ludlum The Bourne Supremacy”, in Publishers Weekly. From the entry Ludlumesque
• The Killing of a Chinese Bookie is no ordinary thriller.1984, Marc Sigoloff, The Films of the Seventies, A Filmography of American, British and Canadian Films 1970–1979, page 158. From the entry downplay
• And he wasn't booksy and didn't pretend to be: he cheerfully admitted to reading no books except the occasional thriller.1972, John Braine, The queen of a distant country. From the entry booksy
• You might politely describe this werewolf thriller set in the English countryside, in which the werewolf is kept off-camera, as a slow-burn.2023 May 2, Cath Clarke, “Wolf Garden review – English rural werewolf horror is a major slow burn”, in The Guardian. From the entry slow burn
• It has turned into a thriller.2022 April 8, John Lichfield, “Get ready for a scary fortnight in French politics: a Le Pen presidency really is possible”, in The Guardian. From the entry horror story
• We represent works in a wide range of categories, with an emphasis on literary fiction, outstanding thriller and crime fiction, and serious narrative nonfiction.2018 September 14, Robert Lee Brewer, editor, Guide to Literary Agents 2019: The Most Trusted Guide to Getting Published, F+W Media…. From the entry literary fiction
• Everyone's favourite eclectic Perthonality Tomas Ford is once again setting out to perform his twisted spy thriller Stop Killing People in Edinburgh this year.2014 June 11, “Anything's Pozible”, in The Music, number 42, Perth, WA: Street Press Australia, page 8. From the entry Perthonality
• This wishy-washy literary thriller is masquerading as a “book-ception” of sorts, with incessant narration and a heavy-handed score just as cliched as its plot.2012 September 20, Rob Marvin, “Unimaginative plot wastes talented cast on dull, plodding story”, in The Daily Orange, Syracuse…. From the entry bookception
• Yet, surely the audience for a Cardiff documentary would be just as interested in his Britsploitation thrillers like “Dark of the Sun” and “The Liquidator.”2011, Joe Bendel, "Love for the cameraman, the greatest ever colour cinematographer", The Epoch Times, 19 May 2011 - 25 May 2011, P9. From the entry Britsploitation
• Its singularly serendipitous nature lends itself to romantic novelisation (book cross-dressing, as it were) or Ludlumesque thrillers (book double-crossing, so to speak).2006, Stephen Brown, “Rattles from the Swill Bucket”, in Stephen Brown, editor, Consuming Books: The Marketing and Consumption of…. From the entry Ludlumesque
• He likes to tell people that it's a Hitchcockian thriller, but that's kind of like saying Happy Gilmore is a homage to Woody Allen.2002, Kevin Williamson, Dawson's Creek (TV, episode 6.01). From the entry homage
• I've considered the situation, and decided, tentatively, that given the fantastic nature of my imagination, perhaps a supernaturalesque thriller is in order.1994 July 12, NightRazor, “FICTION THEME: leading dual lives, internal and external; compartmentalization of life”, in misc.writing (Usenet). From the entry supernaturalesque
• The new picture isn't a thriller.1963 June 7, Howard Thompson, “‘Night Tide,’ a Mood Piece, Is Shown at the Selwyn Theater”, in The New York Times, →ISSN. From the entry mood piece
• Among the fest’s highlights this year were Babak Anvari’s Hallow Road, an inventive genre-bender that begins as a road thriller before slyly morphing into something else entirely.2025 March 17, Meagan Navarro, “SXSW 2025 Review Roundup: Gravedigging Comedy ‘Dead Lover’ to Teen Body Horror Satire ‘Slanted’”, in…. From the entry genre-bender
• From its blinding strobe-lit opening, driven by pounding electronica, this German heist thriller directed by Sebastian Schipper conveys the queasy excitement of being dropped onto a roller coaster midride.2015 October 15, “Movie Listings for Oct. 16-22”, in New York Times. From the entry midride
• That last scenario may sound like something out of a trashy espionage thriller, but the threat of a "smudge attack" is real enough to warrant serious study.2013 February 22, Alex Wawro, Marco Chiappetta, “Windows 8 picture passwords: Their great untapped potential”, in PC World, San Francisco…. From the entry smudge attack
• His feature directing career began with the third installment of the "Alien" franchise, and before "Benjamin Button" all his movies were noirish thrillers of a sort.2009 January 2, Dennis Lim, “Journey of a Director, From Night Creature to Tender Time Traveler”, in New York Times. From the entry noirish
• The first story actually sets the wrong tone, it's a very Stephen Kingish type of contemporary thriller and the rest of the collection has more of an antiquarian feel.2006 March 3, GabrielM [username], “Re: John Connolly's "Nocturnes"”, in alt.books.ghost-fiction (Usenet). From the entry Stephen Kingish
• Sitting by the pool, Jan escapes into a Patricia Cornwell thriller while restless Anna, dissatisfied with the neglected poolside Japanese garden her mother had planted, pulls weeds.1999, Myra MacPherson, She Came to Live Out Loud. From the entry poolside

Meaning of thriller

1. noun Something that thrills.
2. noun A suspenseful, sensational genre of story, book, play, film.
3. noun A sharp, usually sweetened herbal tea flavored with a fruit or berry.

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Questions about thriller in a sentence

How do you use thriller in a sentence?

Thriller is used as a noun. For example: “She loves to read thriller books.”

What is a short sentence with thriller?

“It has turned into a thriller.”

What does thriller mean?

Thriller means something that thrills.