Sunday supplement
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of Sunday supplement
An Americanism dating back to 1925–30
Example Sentences
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The star-smitten 1924 headline “They Swim in Their Own Backyards” reads like an early, prim version of today’s Sunday supplement real estate porn.
From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 13, 2021
Since 2003, it has appeared in the Sunday supplement of Spain’s leading newspaper, El País.
From New York Times • Sep. 25, 2014
"But while there might be a five-page profile of me in a Sunday supplement, I don't speak Norwegian, so I can't understand a word of it!"
From The Guardian • Jul. 21, 2012
“Snap as many youngsters as you want,” read an ad in the sensational Sunday supplement The American Weekly, “from babies to boys and girls beginning to think of themselves as young men and women.”
From New York Times • Mar. 3, 2012
The day before, October 8,1933, the American Weekly, a Sunday supplement in the Seattle Post-Intelligencer and dozens of other American newspapers, had run a single-frame, half-page cartoon, one in a series titled City Shadows.
From "The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics" by Daniel James Brown
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