An advertisement (usually printed on a page or in a leaflet) intended for wide distribution

Usage examples of broadsheet.

He had become more imaginative, rivaling the infamous Jack Shepperd with some of his daring robberies and escapes, and not for one moment had anyone connected the Cat, as the broadsheets had styled him, to his lordship the Earl of Glenshiel.

Fra Diavolo had no such scruples, and sent his broadsheet writers in for the kill.

Dr Humery was for Diether, as I was, and to this purpose we printed a broadsheet taking his part.

Mage Guardians would hereafter pop through Ladders with bound stacks of broadsheets on a regular basis.

It was as informal now as any Orthean place of work, the tables piled with papers and broadsheets as well as tapes, graphs pinned to the wall-hangings beside old illuminated maps, haphazard cartography beside satellite-survey prints.

Headquarters: on back pages from tabloids to broadsheets, the filly kicked football into second place for two whole days.

They will treat of the habits and manners of highwaymen, and quote obscure broadsheets and songs of the people to colour their story, yet decline to bestow more than a passing remark upon our domestic kings: because they are not hereditary, we may suppose.

Real life crimes of passion were the subject of chapbooks and broadsheets which sold in vast quantities long before the development of the crime novel, and surviving examples of these publications which describe the terrible acts of lovers driven to murder, each illustrated with lurid, woodblock illustrations, are now keenly collected.

Our two inimitable drolls did a roaring trade with their broadsheets among lovers of the comedy element and nobody who has a corner in his heart for real Irish fun without vulgarity will grudge them their hardearned pennies.

The second broadsheet stated that our headquarters were at Vyazma, that Count Wittgenstein had defeated the French, but that as many of the inhabitants of Moscow wished to be armed, weapons were ready for them at the arsenal: sabers, pistols, and muskets which could be had at a low price.

Each carried a bundle of newspapers and a large broadsheet with the simple legend: MURDER OF SIGSBEE MANDERSON Sir James smiled and rattled the money in his pockets cheerfully.

Early in December Richard had lunch with the Features Editor of the Sunday broadsheet which would be publishing his long profile of Gwyn Barry.

The papyrus, the broadsheet newspaper, and the computer screen are three examples of the vertical scroll - from top to bottom or vice versa.

In his broadsheets Rostopchin impressed on them that to leave Moscow was shameful.

It is obvious that there would have been even less reason to expect a disturbance among the people if after the battle of Borodino, when the surrender of Moscow became certain or at least probable, Rostopchin instead of exciting the people by distributing arms and broadsheets had taken steps to remove all the holy relics, the gunpowder, munitions, and money, and had told the population plainly that the town would be abandoned.