How to Use hard rock in a Sentence

hard rock

noun

• Yeah Yeahs, and the pounding hard rock of Queens of the Stone Age.
  — Dave Brooks, Billboard, 10 Jan. 2023
• On April 28, the drilling crew hit an area of hard rock and the drill pipe snapped.
  — oregonlive, 1 Sep. 2020
• Suzanne came with her 18-year-old daughter, who is a fan of the hard rock group.
  — Andrew Darosa, Connecticut Post, 30 Sep. 2024
• 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
• The tour hits Intuit Dome Sept. 13-14 (the first hard rock shows in the shiny new arena).
  — August Brown, Los Angeles Times, 11 Sep. 2024
• Linkin Park is far and away one of the most successful hard rock bands of all time.
  — Hugh McIntyre, Forbes, 14 Feb. 2024
• But hold the hard rock — there's no need to get super intense.
  — Elizabeth Narins, Cosmopolitan, 16 Oct. 2015
• 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
• What’s that like to be the only guitar on stage for a hard rock band like The Warning?
  — Spin Contributor, SPIN, 4 Sep. 2024
• 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
• Confidence is a big hard rock that's not easy to get rolling.
  — Adam Baum, Cincinnati.com, 26 Nov. 2019
• 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
• The hard rock band blends post-grunge licks with southern styled ballads.
  — Brandon Moeller, Houston Chronicle, 4 Aug. 2020
• 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
• This molten rock begins to melt the rock above it, and that melted rock, less dense than the hard rock around it, rises.
  — Jennifer Leman, Popular Mechanics, 18 Nov. 2019
• 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
• Then, on April 28, the drilling crew hit an unexpected area of hard rock.
  — oregonlive, 13 Aug. 2020
• 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
• He was loved for his melodic hard rock, nasally vocals and down-to-earth style.
  — Bloomberg.com, 20 Jan. 2018
• Does their success — and Hardy’s pivot to hard rock — spell the looming end of bro-country?
  — Los Angeles Times, 16 Feb. 2023
• The idea was to crack the hard rock formations around the well and stimulate the release of oil or gas trapped within.
  — Rebecca Maitland, Houston Chronicle, 15 Feb. 2018
• 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
• As that hard rock cut continues to overperform, the group is moving on—at least in part—to another tune.
  — Hugh McIntyre, Forbes, 24 Sep. 2024

Last Updated: 12 Dec 2024