Sentence examples for sizable hit from inspiring English sources
Again, the polling predicted a sizable hit.
" 'Two Gentlemen of Verona' was on," André remembers, "and it was a sizable hit.
His records with the Hines band included "Jelly Jelly," featuring a vocal by Billy Eckstine, which became a sizable hit.
Kelly Clarkson, the big-voiced, plain-looking Texan who won the first season, has had considerable success but hasn't had a sizable hit in a while.
Craig Freimond's English-language Material, a gentle comedy about Muslim family tensions, became a sizable hit, while Wayne Thornley's animated Zambezia achieved decent family entertainment on a low budget.
There's equally topical fare in Zero by Marc Elsberg (Doubleday, £16.99, translated by Simon Pare), already a sizable hit in the author's native Austria and other German-speaking territories.
Movie after movie has done that this summer, yet many of them will emerge as sizable hits.
But its biggest earners, "Monster's Ball" and the first "Saw" film, each netted a relatively modest forty to fifty million dollars, and its distribution deal for Tyler Perry's comic melodramas — sizable hits, all six of them — has made the studio only about a hundred and twenty million dollars in all.
Dre has had several sizable hits since 2000 — 50 Cent's strangely stern but addictive "In Da Club" is at the top of this list — but since 1996, when Mosley showed up on the charts with a young singer named Aaliyah, the sound of pop music has drifted toward Timbaland.
It was possible to imagine these directors making films for adult audiences that would solidify the NC-17 as a rating just as acceptable as an R. (After all, in its early days, the X generated some sizable hits — 1969's "Midnight Cowboy," which won best picture, took in $45 million, or $281 million in today's dollars; 1973's "Last Tango in Paris" made $36 million, or $225 million today).
Though its script-heavy schedule took a sizable ratings hit during the writers' strike, the female-friendly network is hoping fresh episodes will generate enough buzz to bring viewers back.
