Example Sentences

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Celebrities are offered an opportunity to promote their upcoming projects in a sensationalistic yet humanistic and, oftentimes, meme-worthy manner.

From Salon • Apr. 6, 2025

“The big publications used to only cover crypto in a sensationalistic way, when it was booming or crashing, and now they’re finally building out crypto coverage arms,” he mentioned.

From Slate • Jan. 6, 2023

As intensive and worrisome as Aisha’s hauntings are — artfully handled with subtle visual shifts, sly edits and oozing audio cues — Jusu doesn’t present them as sensationalistic high points or showpieces of victimization.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 22, 2022

Certain local broadcast media continuously bombard us with sensationalistic, reductionist crime narratives.

From Seattle Times • Sep. 23, 2022

It tends to put the same emphasis upon the external and sensationalistic aspects of human experience.

From Preaching and Paganism by Fitch, Albert Parker