How do you use Potboiler in a sentence? See 7 example sentences showing how this word appears in different contexts, plus the exact meaning.
Potboiler meaning
Alternative spelling of pot boiler.
Synonyms of Potboiler
Using Potboiler
- The main meaning on this page is: Alternative spelling of pot boiler.
- Useful related words include: literary composition, literary work.
- In the example corpus, potboiler often appears in combinations such as: commercial potboiler.
Context around Potboiler
- Average sentence length in these examples: 20.3 words
- Position in the sentence: 1 start, 3 middle, 3 end
- Sentence types: 7 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Potboiler
- In this selection, "potboiler" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 20.3 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, commercial, legal and inoffensive stand out and add context to how "potboiler" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include a commercial potboiler and has and an inoffensive potboiler. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "potboiler" sits close to words such as aaba, aalbers and abbate, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with potboiler
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
It would make for one hell of a potboiler. (9 words)
The performance was at par with the commercial potboiler, during the same duration. (13 words)
It's utter nonsense, but in the right hands, it could've made for an inoffensive potboiler. (17 words)
Whether it was one of the three or four novels Pynchon had in progress is not known, but in a 1965 letter to Donadio, Pynchon had written that he was in the middle of writing a " potboiler ". (37 words)
Lewis's first published book was Hike and the Aeroplane, a Tom Swift -style potboiler that appeared in 1912 under the pseudonym Tom Graham. (24 words)
I love a good legal potboiler, but this was something different and, because of Triel’s fine work, something much more affecting. (22 words)
Example sentences (7)
I love a good legal potboiler, but this was something different and, because of Triel’s fine work, something much more affecting.
It's utter nonsense, but in the right hands, it could've made for an inoffensive potboiler.
Singham Again is a commercial potboiler and has all the reasons to create a dhamaka at the Diwali box office.
The performance was at par with the commercial potboiler, during the same duration.
It would make for one hell of a potboiler.
Lewis's first published book was Hike and the Aeroplane, a Tom Swift -style potboiler that appeared in 1912 under the pseudonym Tom Graham.
Whether it was one of the three or four novels Pynchon had in progress is not known, but in a 1965 letter to Donadio, Pynchon had written that he was in the middle of writing a " potboiler ".
Common combinations with potboiler
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts: