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Examples of double bill in a Sentence
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With seven performances April 4-14, the program marks not only the company’s first double bill by female choreographers.
—Andrew Gilbert, The Mercury News, 1 Apr. 2024
Now, this spring—the Lenten timing is appropriate, perhaps, for this God-haunted writer—there’s a Shanley double bill.
—Vinson Cunningham, The New Yorker, 11 Mar. 2024
It’s been an exceptional time for movies: In the last 12 months, we were introduced to the double bill that broke the internet, singular science fiction dramas that broke our brains, and intimate, romantic dramas that broke our hearts.
—Helen Murphy, Vulture, 7 Feb. 2024
For Noir City’s 21st iteration, festival founder Eddie Muller of San Francisco came up with a novel approach to entice fans to Oakland’s Grand Lake Theatre: curating double bills that pair English language and international movies.
—Randy Myers, The Mercury News, 19 Jan. 2024
In three performances conducted by music director Esa-Pekka Salonen, the double bill program features pianist Jean-Yves Thibaudet, vocalists Michelle DeYoung and Gerald Finley, and narrator Breezy Leigh; Jenny Wong directs the SF Symphony Chorus.
—Randy McMullen, The Mercury News, 28 Feb. 2024
The original title, Cooke said, was Drive-Away Dykes, which purposefully suggests the second half of a Forty-Deuce grindhouse double bill.
—David Fear, Rolling Stone, 23 Feb. 2024
Thanksgiving began life as a fake trailer included in Quentin Tarantino and Robert Rodriguez's 2007 double bill Grindhouse.
—Clark Collis, EW.com, 7 Sep. 2023
In a December concert at the Park Avenue Armory, the International Contemporary Ensemble, of which Lewis is the artistic director, played his music on a double bill with a performance by the composer-pianist Amina Claudine Myers, another A.A.C.M. veteran.
—Alex Ross, The New Yorker, 8 Jan. 2024
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Word History
First Known Use
1917, in the meaning defined above
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“Double bill.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/double%20bill. Accessed 10 Jun. 2024.
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