How to Use hard rock in a Sentence

hard rock

noun

• The hard rock band blends post-grunge licks with southern styled ballads.
  — Brandon Moeller, Houston Chronicle, 4 Aug. 2020
• On April 28, the drilling crew hit an area of hard rock and the drill pipe snapped.
  — oregonlive, 1 Sep. 2020
• Then, on April 28, the drilling crew hit an unexpected area of hard rock.
  — oregonlive, 13 Aug. 2020
• Marshalls are best known for being great hard rock amps, and this desktop version is no different.
  — Popular Science, 21 Jan. 2020
• For over two hours, the band offered a pounding, brooding, ambient and majestic ceremony of hard rock in a number of forms.
  — Kelly Dearmore, Dallas News, 23 Jan. 2020
• Mining companies have carved out many of the richest deposits, and now use more powerful machinery to cut through narrower seams with hard rock.
  — Chris Serres, Star Tribune, 14 Aug. 2020
• Slinky, jazzy verses led to percussive choruses on the verge of hard rock or jazz fusion, infused with Bahia’s Afro-Brazilian drive.
  — Jon Pareles, New York Times, 13 Jan. 2020
• Despite being one of the most famous names in the hard rock genre, the group has never managed to appear on the Hard Rock Streaming Songs chart.
  — Hugh McIntyre, Forbes, 16 Aug. 2024
• The hard rock and fest spectacular was scheduled to take place June 12-14 at Donington Park.
  — Billboard Staff, Billboard, 4 Aug. 2020
• The process, known as direct lithium extraction, is said to be far less damaging to the environment than hard rock mining or by pumping brine into large evaporation ponds.
  — Melody Petersen, Los Angeles Times, 25 July 2024
• Yeah Yeahs, and the pounding hard rock of Queens of the Stone Age.
  — Dave Brooks, Billboard, 10 Jan. 2023
• Leading the way on both counts was lead singer, David Lee Roth, the clown prince of hard rock.
  — The Enquirer, 7 Oct. 2020
• There are legends in the world of hard rock, and then there’s Ozzy Osbourne.
  — Josh Chesler, SPIN, 12 Dec. 2023
• The band tore through more than two hours of hard rock, left the stage, returned for the encore and left again.
  — Travis M. Andrews, Washington Post, 15 Nov. 2022
• Linkin Park is far and away one of the most successful hard rock bands of all time.
  — Hugh McIntyre, Forbes, 14 Feb. 2024
• The album is soulful mix of hip-hop, hard rock, neo-soul, and, of course, pure pop.
  — Brittany Spanos, Rolling Stone, 22 Oct. 2022
• As essential to the genre as a power chord is to hard rock.
  — Los Angeles Times, 20 June 2022
• But this one is mostly for the first pumping hard rock lovers.
  — cleveland, 17 Jan. 2023
• He’s been with the hard rock band since 1978, and plays drums with the use of electronic pedals.
  — Victoria Ballard, Sun Sentinel, 16 Mar. 2023
• Ronnie James Dio and Ian Gillan are two of the most beloved singers in the history of hard rock.
  — Andy Greene, Rolling Stone, 22 Apr. 2023
• Van Halen were the new kings, soon to inspire the next wave of successful hard rock bands.
  — Matt Wake | [e-mail], al, 27 Feb. 2023
• And weak rocks break down to mud faster than hard rocks, so sand tends to be made of the harder types that break down slowly.
  — David R. Montgomery, Discover Magazine, 12 July 2024
• Considered one of the greatest hard rock songs of all time, this song plays when Thor and the Guardians of the Galaxy have joined forces.
  — Jazz Tangcay, Variety, 8 July 2022
• Ford is known as one of the members of the groundbreaking all-women punk and hard rock group The Runaways.
  — cleveland, 13 July 2023
• He was drawn to nu-metal and hard rock as well as rap, and tried to teach himself how to play the guitar and the piano.
  — Corinna Burford, Vulture, 9 June 2022
• Does their success — and Hardy’s pivot to hard rock — spell the looming end of bro-country?
  — Los Angeles Times, 16 Feb. 2023
• For nearly 50 years, Cooper and the band bearing that name is one of the iconic figures in hard rock.
  — Al Shipley, SPIN, 9 June 2023
• Some of the biggest hard rock bands sanded down their edges a little and invaded top 40 in the process.
  — Billboard Staff, Billboard, 5 Apr. 2021
• In the clip, Black and Gass strut around the red carpet, doing dance moves and jump-kicking while belting along to the D’s hard rock take on the 1998 pop smash.
  — Jon Blistein, Rolling Stone, 8 Mar. 2024
• This song is in the psychedelic rock, hard rock and blues rock genres.
  — Kris Holt, Forbes, 13 Aug. 2022

Last Updated: 1 Oct 2024