How to Use slice-of-life in a Sentence

slice-of-life

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  • But not all Jump comics fit this framing—some are more comedic or more slice-of-life, or even flirt with romance.
    — Matt Alt, New Yorker, 25 Aug. 2025
  • This year was a particularly good one for slice-of-life stories, suspense thrillers, and hospital dramas.
    — Kayti Burt, Time, 18 Dec. 2025
  • Its film industry has in recent years made waves on the film festival circuit with social dramas, gangster thrillers, and eccentric slice-of-life films.
    — Georg Szalai, HollywoodReporter, 11 Nov. 2025
  • Most standard zoom lenses start at either 24mm or 28mm, moderately wide angles that are ideal for day-to-day photography and slice-of-life images.
    — PC Magazine, 9 Sep. 2025
  • The graduation photos were mixed in with other slice-of-life shots showing Lopez posing for a photo shoot, eating a large croissant, enjoying chocolate in bed and relaxing on the couch.
    — Kimberlee Speakman, PEOPLE, 27 June 2026
  • Their return brings financial and personal struggles in a touching slice-of-life drama exploring family dynamics and cultural expectations.
    — Brian Truitt, USA Today, 23 Dec. 2025
  • This quietly poetic slice-of-life film follows a week in the life of Paterson (Adam Driver), a bus driver who happens to work in the New Jersey city of the same name.
    — Kevin Jacobsen, Entertainment Weekly, 28 Dec. 2025
  • Despite the dramatic implications of the film’s title, Erupcja has a casual, slice-of-life vibe to it that prevents Bethany and Rob’s woes from teetering into melodrama.
    — Jourdain Searles, HollywoodReporter, 5 Sep. 2025
  • Made for those looking for slice-of-life calm with dramatic bite, Shoshimin combines deliberate pacing and a contemplative, off-kilter character study with some amusingly diabolical scheming.
    — Kambole Campbell, Vulture, 9 Dec. 2025
  • With its realistic, slice-of-life look at a shift inside a Pittsburgh hospital’s emergency department, the drama has been an awards force since its debut in January 2025.
    — Senior Television, Los Angeles Times, 8 July 2026
  • Eva Victor Eva Victor’s stupidly relatable, slice-of-life comedic sketches kept thousands of bored quarantiners and dry-humored netizens entertained during the pandemic.
    — Jonathan Borge, InStyle, 27 Aug. 2026

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