How to Use cyberpunk in a Sentence

cyberpunk

noun

• An assassin who attacks Adam at a gas station is outfitted in a cyberpunk ensemble; another is a feral Aussie with huge mutton chops.
  — Katie Walsh, Los Angeles Times, 11 Jan. 2024
• Its styling is wild and weird and wonderful, a medley of organic forms bisected by creases and LED lighting to form what looks like a cyberpunk canvas.
  — Daniel Golson, The Verge, 27 Oct. 2023
• The series is based on a cyberpunk novel of the same name.
  — Eliana Dockterman, Time, 27 Dec. 2017
• But where the 1993 film took the brothers into a gonzo cyberpunk fever dream, the new Super Mario Bros. plays it safe.
  — Christopher Cruz, Rolling Stone, 4 Apr. 2023
• For the record, each model had crimped blonde cyberpunk hair, deep red lips, intense stares and stomps.
  — Tara Gonzalez, Harper's BAZAAR, 27 June 2023
• As such, a game that could play like a cyberpunk thriller often feels like a slice-of-life story, a trip through the most complex and detailed world Square Enix could muster.
  — Julie Muncy, Wired, 10 Apr. 2020
• First up is Cyberpunk 2077, the game about a dark cyberpunk future where Keanu Reeves never ages.
  — Julie Muncy, Wired, 17 Jan. 2020
• Take a look: Since 2008, Taylor's gone from curly-haired country to classic beauty to edgy cyberpunk.
  — Elizabeth Denton, Seventeen, 28 Apr. 2017
• For the final event before the big show, the remaining 12 entered the digital age in a cyberpunk standoff.
  — Emily Gaynor, Teen Vogue, 17 July 2017
• Her songs draw on the cyberpunk heroism celebrated in our pages and pixels.
  — WIRED, 8 Aug. 2023
• The Matrix is a classic hero’s-journey narrative, wrapped up in a cyberpunk dressing and stuffed with sci-fi hacker talk.
  — David Sims, The Atlantic, 21 Aug. 2019
• Perhaps the most exciting of these is an adaptation of Neil Stephenson's 1992 cyberpunk cult hit Snow Crash.
  — Sophie Weiner, Popular Mechanics, 29 Sep. 2017
• Against a bright yellow backdrop, Offset performs in a number of cyberpunk pieces made from waxy leather and PVC (his rave-ready, flared jeans in particular are a stand out).
  — Rachel Hahn, Vogue, 17 Apr. 2019
• The car silently and accurately slinks around curves, with the precision of sci-fi cyberpunk killer snake assassin.
  — Rob Verger, Popular Science, 9 Aug. 2023
• The car silently and accurately slinks around curves, with the precision of sci-fi cyberpunk killer snake assassin.
  — Kevin Williams, Popular Science, 10 Apr. 2023
• Battle Angel, the cyberpunk epic based on the popular manga series, has very few bankable stars.
  — Pamela McClintock, The Hollywood Reporter, 27 Apr. 2018
• These garments are often black, throwbacks to the cyberpunk look that dominated 1999’s The Matrix.
  — Nadra Nittle, Vox, 24 Oct. 2018
• Gibson was far from the first sci-fi writer to explore computers and their consequences; a movement, soon to be known as cyberpunk, was already under way.
  — Joshua Rothman, The New Yorker, 9 Dec. 2019
• BrickinNick said he's long been a fan of Tesla and cyberpunk aesthetics, and built and rebuilt his original Cybertruck model over the course of a 24-hour live stream on his Twitch channel.
  — Sebastian Blanco, Car and Driver, 26 Jan. 2020
• The bracelet is like an anti-smartwatch, both in its cyberpunk aesthetic and in its purpose of defeating technology.
  — New York Times, 14 Feb. 2020
• But Harajuku fashion has, historically, comprised styles like Lolita, a doll-like sort of subset of kawaii, goth, and cyberpunk, among others.
  — Katherine Cusumano, Teen Vogue, 10 Apr. 2018
• The System Shock remake was announced back in 2015, soon after developer Nightdive tracked down the elusive rights to the classic cyberpunk horror series.
  — Adi Robertson, The Verge, 14 Mar. 2023
• The darker potential of technology is a staple of William Gibson’s and Bruce Sterling’s cyberpunk.
  — Jennifer Senior, New York Times, 2 Oct. 2016
• One of the most expensive anime films ever made, Ghost in the Shell came to theaters when cyberpunk stories were becoming massively popular.
  — Tiffany Kelly, Popular Mechanics, 31 Mar. 2017
• The company has some other fun things for aspiring cyberpunk car owners to play with — literally.
  — Andrew Liptak, The Verge, 29 June 2019
• There were the traditional New Age types: hippies, cyberpunks, and transhumanists, too.
  — Joi Ito, WIRED, 4 June 2018
• At one point the studio said up-patching the game would be too time-consuming, given its focus on its mysterious next game, a cyberpunk fantasy set in an open-world metropolis.
  — Matt Peckham, Time, 4 Oct. 2017
• This time around it’s Transistor, Supergiant’s cyberpunk tactics-lite game.
  — Hayden Dingman, PCWorld, 15 Apr. 2019
• After over a million man-hours of construction and nearly a decade of preparation, the super-computer optimized nightmare of cyberpunk wires and tubes was finally turned on, and its initial test was a success.
  — Eric Limer, Popular Mechanics, 4 Feb. 2016
• Dame Helen Mirren was in attendance, channeling Kojima’s cyberpunk-meets-postpunk aesthetic in a long black blazer with a Radiohead patch on the breast.
  — Adrian Chen, New York Times, 3 Mar. 2020

Last Updated: 29 Oct 2024