Examples of “billboard” in a Sentence

noun A large outdoor sign used to display advertising.

• The land refuses to change. The more he drives the more the region resembles the country around Mt. Judge. The same scruff on the embankments, the same weathered billboards for the same products you wondered anybody would ever want to buy. — John Updike, 'Rabbit (1960)
• A giant billboard for the new movie towered over the highway.
• All America was on the verge of spring and the countryside was coming to glory, what we could see of the countryside through the smoke and billboards. — Don DeLillo, Americana (1971)
• The bakery paid for a billboard beside the ring road to attract new customers.
• Someone had climbed up and pasted a joke over the old billboard.
• Bleak factory buildings and billboard-cluttered avenues look as beautiful, through the camera’s eye, as churches and pastoral landscapes. — Susan Sontag, Melancholy Objects (1977)