Examples of 'clickbait' in a sentence

Meaning of "clickbait"

Clickbait refers to online content that uses sensationalist headlines to attract clicks. It often provides misleading or exaggerated information to generate traffic to a website
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  • Website content that is aimed at generating advertising revenue, especially at the expense of quality or accuracy, relying on sensationalist headlines to attract click-throughs; such headlines.
  • To add clickbait to a web page; to direct clickbait at someone.

How to use "clickbait" in a sentence

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We are all clickbait at the end of the day.
I thought you said this shit was clickbait.
Clickbait journalism is to journalism as military music is to music.
They need the easy clickbait we provide.
They also very consistently click on clickbait.
Some employ clickbait tactics to boost their visibility.
I am against you using them for clickbait.
A clickbait statistic people trot out as if it proves something.
This is the major problem with clickbait.
The foolish clickbait in question.
Use exaggerated or misleading headlines or images as clickbait.
Clickbait is essentially bait that websites place for visitors.
More balanced pieces lack clickbait framing.
Clickbait works for a reason.
Facebook introduces changes to tackle clickbait links.

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We are not clickbait millennials.
I can already hear the clickbait.
I hate clickbait headlines.
Beaks would never pass up that sweet clickbait.
Hyperbolic and clickbait headlines.
And cynics and opportunists know it as proven clickbait.
Buzzfeed is clickbait journalism.
Who have used my name as clickbait.
The clickbait problem.
We see the commercial clickbait sites.
Clickbait is insulting.
They are all about the clickbait.
An example of this would be clickbait or false promising pages in the search results.
It makes up stories to encourage clickbait.
It was clickbait.
Especially in a world dominated by clickbait.
Clickbait refers to headlines of online news articles that are sensationalized or sometimes completely fake.
That you know is clickbait.
He probably read that clickbait horror story online about the guy with the weird complication.
This is worse than clickbait.
They need sensational stories and clickbait titles to keep viewership up and advertisers happy.
That article is completely clickbait.
Betting on Clickbait and forgetting about quality.
The site also has numerous ludicrous clickbait stories.
This was why clickbait was so triumphant on Facebook.
Facebook is clamping down on clickbait.
But instead we got Internet clickbait conspiracy theories and other opiates for the idiot masses.
You will not believe what we think about clickbait.
I know what clickbait is.
At least the author of the piece is being honest about their clickbait.
But we need clickbait.
Problematic system design such as business models that reward clickbait.
It is my first clickbait title.
When the rumors came out my first thought was that it was clickbait.
Bring me a clickbait.

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