How to Use counterculture in a Sentence

counterculture

noun

• He was part of the antiwar counterculture.
• The first one was a comment on the hold of drugs that was beginning to take hold in the counterculture.
  — Tim Greiving, Los Angeles Times, 9 Aug. 2019
• However counterculture his artists, Newman wanted to make a place for them front and center.
  — Los Angeles Times, 30 July 2019
• An emblem of the 1960s counterculture in the United States.
  — Chicago Tribune Staff, chicagotribune.com, 10 July 2019
• Across the country, the counterculture was clashing with authority.
  — Alejandro De La Garza, Time, 26 July 2019
• Located away from the main stage area, the bazaar was set aside to provide space for pop-up booths, where concertgoers could sell—or, this being the counterculture, barter—crafts and clothes and other collectibles.
  — Jeffrey Kluger, Time, 1 Aug. 2019
• The counterculture movement in the 1960s brought about the rise of jean shorts.
  — Hannah Jackson, Vogue, 19 July 2023
• Guthrie’s work set the stage for the 1960s counterculture in the East Village.
  — Anthony Alofsin, Smithsonian Magazine, 24 Feb. 2020
• What used to be thought of as counterculture is now par for the course.
  — Jason Parham, WIRED, 6 Feb. 2024
• But, for the most part, signs of the counterculture were muted.
  — Emily Witt, The New Yorker, 29 Dec. 2021
• In the 1960s, counterculture communes sprang up in Oregon and around the world.
  — oregonlive, 8 July 2020
• Still, for all the cult of the counterculture, the fate of the VW bus, starting in the nineteen-sixties, mainly had to do with the price of chicken.
  — Jill Lepore, The New Yorker, 18 July 2022
• One of the defining bands of the late 1960s hippie counterculture.
  — Troy L. Smith, cleveland, 30 Oct. 2021
• The leading bands of Detroit counterculture were cut from the same cloth.
  — Brian McCollum, Detroit Free Press, 26 Jan. 2024
• The background to King Crimson is in the counterculture.
  — Jon Pareles, New York Times, 19 Sep. 2022
• Psychedelics have been banned at the federal level since the Nixon era, a response to the counterculture movement of the 1960s.
  — Todd J. Gillman, Dallas News, 13 July 2023
• Mastodon isn’t the same as before—there are more mainstream voices mixed in with the counterculture.
  — WIRED, 7 Feb. 2023
• My guide, Finn, took me for a walk to discover the urban counterculture of the former East Berlin.
  — Laura Parker, Forbes, 18 May 2022
• The first head shop in this state at the forefront of counterculture and legal marijuana plans to close with the new year.
  — USA TODAY, 4 Dec. 2019
• The Mamas and the Papas were an integral part of the 1960s counterculture.
  — Troy L. Smith, cleveland, 11 Jan. 2022
• Striking out for a sixth time was the MC5, the Detroit band whose high-octane counterculture music helped set the stage for hard rock and punk.
  — Brian McCollum, Detroit Free Press, 4 May 2022
• Unless, for a hero of the counterculture like Gordon, obliterating the brand is, in fact, the brand.
  — Chris Richards, Washington Post, 8 Mar. 2024
• Art Nouveau became the house style for the counterculture of the mid 20th century.
  — Regina Cole, Forbes, 1 Jan. 2023
• If counterculture and a thriving art scene are selling points to you, Santa Fe will win you over in 2024.
  — Steph Koyfman, Condé Nast Traveler, 20 Dec. 2023
• If counterculture and a thriving art scene are selling points to you, Santa Fe will win you over in 2024.
  — Steph Koyfman, Condé Nast Traveler, 19 Dec. 2023
• Skateboarding once was part of the counterculture, a haven for misfit kids, backed by soundtracks of punk and rap.
  — John Branch, New York Times, 26 Jan. 2020
• The books spawned reading groups across the country and filtered into the counterculture.
  — Sam Kestenbaum, New York Times, 29 Oct. 2019
• Stunts and gags drew attention to the hot new company just as the counterculture took off.
  — Michael O’Donnell, The Atlantic, 5 Aug. 2021
• When John Lennon was shot dead in 1980, the perpetrator was a disillusioned fan on the edges of the counterculture who had become convinced that the Beatles co-founder had betrayed some kind of principle.
  — Elizabeth Nelson, The Atlantic, 31 July 2024
• The Many Lives of Carlos Castaneda, a podcast about the wild, shadowy history of the famous author and counterculture figurehead.
  — Michael Calore Lauren Goode, WIRED, 1 Aug. 2024

Last Updated: 1 Oct 2024