How to Use punk rock in a Sentence

punk rock

noun
  • The Damned were the first English punk rock band to tour the U.S.
    Jim Ruland, Los Angeles Times, 1 Feb. 2022
  • These were the last great days of the punk rock movement.
    Chadd Scott, Forbes, 12 July 2022
  • Westwood first rose to prominence in the U.K. punk rock scene of the 1970s.
    Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 29 Dec. 2022
  • The track holds true to the concept of punk rock getting a catchy facelift.
    Troy L. Smith, cleveland, 2 Mar. 2022
  • As the name suggests, pop punk has its roots in punk rock.
    Troy L. Smith, cleveland, 2 Mar. 2022
  • Rollins is known for being the singer/frontman for the punk rock band Black Flag.
    Baltimore Sun Staff, Baltimore Sun, 19 Sep. 2023
  • Soti is more of this punk rock drummer from Long Beach.
    Alexandra Schonfeld, Peoplemag, 12 Oct. 2023
  • But many of this past year’s stars sang in ways that recalled punk rock.
    Spencer Kornhaber, The Atlantic, 20 Dec. 2021
  • The boys in Blink-182 were wannabe rock stars who happened to play poppy punk rock.
    Jim Ruland, Los Angeles Times, 3 Nov. 2021
  • Lee Bains and the Glory Fires are known for their Southern punk rock bangers.
    Sophia Solano, Washington Post, 10 Aug. 2022
  • About three years ago, Fat Mike came to Vegas with the idea of opening a punk rock store.
    Brett Martin, New York Times, 28 Nov. 2023
  • There was just a few of us that knew about it—both skateboarding and punk rock.
    Brad Cohan, SPIN, 13 June 2023
  • The outfit combo makes every dude look like a punk rock god about to take the stage.
    Yoora Kim, Seventeen, 28 Mar. 2023
  • Speck expects to see these grungy punk rock bangs make a comeback in 2023.
    Loren Savini, Allure, 2 Feb. 2023
  • The part of me that will always be punk rock thought this was exactly what the Clash would do.
    José Adorno, BGR, 24 Oct. 2022
  • As someone who came out of the punk rock scene in New York, later on, that’s what that place was for me.
    Jazz Tangcay, Variety, 31 Jan. 2022
  • Passages Jamie Reid, the artist who helped give British punk rock its edgy, rough-hewn look, has died at 76.
    Carolina A. Miranda, Los Angeles Times, 12 Aug. 2023
  • There's a famous punk rock rock club called the Double Down Saloon.
    Megan Spurrell, Condé Nast Traveler, 9 Feb. 2024
  • Three of his children — Alec, Ian and Amanda — had careers in punk rock.
    Adam Bernstein, Washington Post, 28 Aug. 2023
  • The guitarist of the Canadian punk rock band Teenage Head was killed by his son, police say.
    Christine Pelisek, Peoplemag, 11 Aug. 2022
  • He is best known for being the guitarist and vocalist of the punk rock band Rancid.
    Haadiza Ogwude, The Enquirer, 14 Mar. 2024
  • This song is in the punk rock, pop-punk and alternative rock genres.
    Kris Holt, Forbes, 10 Aug. 2022
  • In the ‘90s their blend of reggae with hip-hop and punk rock swagger created a unique lane amid the alt-FM airwaves.
    Vanessa Franko, Los Angeles Times, 10 Apr. 2024
  • Deneke, then 19 years old, had been an entrenched part of Amarillo's punk rock scene.
    Steve Helling, Peoplemag, 15 Nov. 2022
  • Even later the place became a venue for San Francisco’s first punk rock scene.
    Carl Nolte, San Francisco Chronicle, 26 Feb. 2022
  • Seymour Stein heard the potential in what soon became known as punk rock.
    James R. Hagerty, wsj.com, 4 Apr. 2023
  • Their friendship was forged over their discovery of punk rock.
    Alex Ritman, The Hollywood Reporter, 31 Aug. 2022
  • Clad in a school boy uniform, the musician brought a punk rock flair to the song, released earlier this month.
    Emily Zemler, Rolling Stone, 29 Mar. 2022
  • With the death of punk rock, hip-hop has indeed adopted and patterned the new generation of mosh pits.
    Dom Calicchio, Fox News, 7 Nov. 2021
  • As a kid, Shepard favored punk rock and skateboarding over the more genteel pastimes of the South.
    Washington Post, 19 Jan. 2022

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