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How to use trilogy in a sentence

17 example sentences · noun

Trilogy means a set of three connected works—usually dramas, literary pieces, films, or musical compositions—all related by theme, characters, or setting. Example: “I've plotted out a whole trilogy.”

Examples of trilogy by meaning

nounA set of three connected works—usually dramas, literary pieces, films, or musical compositions—all related by theme...

  • That such a safe adaptation could come of The Hunger Games speaks more to the trilogy’s commercial ascent than the book’s actual content, which is audacious and savvy in its dark calculations.2012 March 22, Scott Tobias, “The Hunger Games”, in AV Club
  • Daisy Ridley has reawakened the debate over “Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker’s” biggest reveal, saying that the character of Rey’s lineage wasn’t clear to her even partway through filming the final chapter of the trilogy.2020 September 9, Brian Lowry, “Daisy Ridley reawakens the ‘Star Wars’ debate over Rey’s lineage”, in CNN

More sentences with trilogy

  • I've plotted out a whole trilogy.From the entry plot out
  • We know what’s sprouting, but Mantel’s trilogy lets us imagine that it might all have been different.2020 March 28, Catherine Holmes, “Review: Mantel’s trilogy finale gives us the end of Cromwell’s action-packed life”, in The Post and…. From the entry cross the Styx
  • Still, the writer and director jokingly cautions that Serenity is not the start of a trilogy.2005 October 1, Daniel Eagan, “Finding Serenity”, in Film Journal International. From the entry openture
  • The factory manager is portrayed as a contemporary version of Ubu, the hero of Alfred Jarry's trilogy.1995, Yosefa Loshitzky, The Radical Faces of Godard and Bertolucci, Wayne State University Press, →ISBN, page 35. From the entry ubuesque
  • I recently rewatched the original Star Wars trilogy.2025 September 5, Angela Collier, “CONTACT (backyard radio telescope part II)”https://youtu.be/0j4_-7rwWjE, YouTube. From the entry guy
  • It lacks the extinctionist glee of Margaret Atwood’s MaddAddam trilogy.2019 March 23, Sarah Ditum, “Last Ones Left Alive by Sarah Davis-Goff review – post-apocalyptic road trip”, in The Guardian, →ISSN. From the entry extinctionist
  • In Hebbel's trilogy, Brunhild is one of the figures who spans both levels, those of history and myth.1999, Mary A. Cicora, Wagner's Ring and German Drama: Comparative Studies in Mythology and History in Drama, page 79. From the entry Brunhild
  • It was, its maker mused, intended to be the first installment of a trilogy of records, each one dedicated to a different aspect of Frippertronics.2021, Dave Thompson, I Feel Love: Donna Summer, Giorgio Moroder, and How They Reinvented Music, Rowman & Littlefield, →ISBN, page 141. From the entry Frippertronics
  • The final instalment of this Star Wars trilogy will be in our cinemas in December to answer all our burning questions: will Reylo ever happen?2019, Emily Webb-Mortimer, "2019: year of the remake?", InQuire (University of Kent), 25 January 2019, page 15. From the entry Reylo
  • My Fangirls Going Rogue co-host Teresa Delgado proudly admits her best fandom moments were discovered in the prequel trilogy and has become an enthusiastic advocate for fankids.2016, Tricia Barr, “Fangirls flying high!”, in The Best of Star Wars Insider, volume 4, Titan, →ISBN, page 103. From the entry fankid
  • It could turn out that An Unexpected Journey is the weakest of this trilogy, the necessary preamble before less-stultifying action and more engaging character development ensue.2012 December 15, Ann Hornaday, “‘The Hobbit’ Is Long, Feels Even Longer”, in Valley News, volume 61, number 190, page C3, column 4. From the entry weak
  • I'm setting up for a clash between Draco and Harry if and when I ever get around to the third installment of my long Potterfic trilogy.2002 November 11, Kuroi Kage, “Re: Draco Malfoy, bad to the bone?”, in alt.fan.harry-potter (Usenet). From the entry Potterfic
  • The poioumenon has a long prehistory (hardly a tradition), going back through Beckett's trilogy and Carlyle's Sartor Resartus to Sterne's Tristram Shandy; but it is preeminently a postmodernist genre.1991, Alastair Fowler, A History of English Literature. From the entry poioumenon
  • For the past three years, his forces of evil and good have waged a pitched battle in a Carnival trilogy that concluded last year in Washington, D.C.1986, Américas, English edition, Washington, D.C.: Pan American Union, General Secretariat of the Organization of American States, →ISSN…. From the entry jab molassie
  • Discussing Men at Arms, the first volume of his later war trilogy, Waugh explained that it "was a kind of uncelebration, a history of Guy Crouchback's disillusion with the army.1990, Robert Reginald Garnett, From Grimes to Brideshead: The Early Novels of Evelyn Waugh, →ISBN. From the entry uncelebration

Meaning of trilogy

  1. noun A set of three connected works—usually dramas, literary pieces, films, or musical compositions—all related by theme, characters, or setting.

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Questions about trilogy in a sentence

How do you use trilogy in a sentence?
Trilogy is used as a noun. For example: “I've plotted out a whole trilogy.”
What is a short sentence with trilogy?
“I've plotted out a whole trilogy.”
What does trilogy mean?
Trilogy means a set of three connected works—usually dramas, literary pieces, films, or musical compositions—all related by theme, characters, or setting.

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