How to Use rock in a Sentence

rock

1 of 2 verb

• The band rocked the crowd.
• The news of the murders rocked the town.
• The boat rocked back and forth on the waves.
• An earthquake rocked the town.
• She gently rocked the baby to sleep.
• He rocked back and forth while he stood waiting.
• The building was rocked by an explosion.
• Their invention rocked the computer industry.
• The Princess of Wales rocked a high pony for the occasion.
  — Victoria Murphy, Town & Country, 8 June 2023
• This new version of golf will rock, at least in the yacht sense.
  — WIRED, 9 Nov. 2023
• That’s carried forward to the blues and jazz and to rock ‘n’ roll.
  — Char Adams, NBC News, 21 Sep. 2023
• Come on, who doesn’t still rock a pair of Adidas and a beanie.
  — Liza Lentini, Spin, 6 Oct. 2023
• The singer is not the only star to rock his designs this year.
  — Christian Allaire, Vogue, 15 June 2023
• Feed them and play, rock them to sleep, clean up after them and give them love.
  — The View, ABC News, 13 Dec. 2023
• And make sure to gel some hair for a rocking crew of bandmates!
  — Deborah Way, Parents, 6 Oct. 2023
• By contrast, the White House has been unwilling to rock the U.N. boat.
  — The Editors, National Review, 25 Oct. 2023
• James’ choice rocked the sports world and made the Miami Heat a super team.
  — Jorge Castillo, Los Angeles Times, 4 Dec. 2023
• Michael Tabb China rocked the auto world twice this year.
  — Greg Ip, WSJ, 7 June 2023
• Post Malone has seen a million faces and he’s rocked them all.
  — Gil Kaufman, Billboard, 9 Feb. 2024
• This will keep the hook from rocking or rolling too far to one side, giving you the best chance to clear the cover.
  — Shaye Baker, Field & Stream, 12 Oct. 2023
• But for the most part, iOS just works, so Apple probably doesn’t need to rock the boat.
  — Jay Peters, The Verge, 2 June 2023
• Just plop it on top of your wine bottle, hit a button, and boom, your wine is ready to rock.
  — Samantha Booth, Rolling Stone, 10 Nov. 2023
• Kane rocked back and forth with Kingsley in his arms as Katelyn sang her part of their 2022 duet.
  — Meghan Overdeep, Southern Living, 4 Mar. 2024
• But not in the way babies gently rock the world of every new parent.
  — Erin Prater, Fortune Well, 4 Nov. 2023
• Even in those awful starts against St. Louis, he was never rocked like this.
  — Bill Plaschke, Los Angeles Times, 8 Oct. 2023
• The pop star, 20, who was once known for wearing bright clothes and hair bows, rocked an edgier look with black makeup in the video.
  — Esme Mazzeo, Peoplemag, 7 Apr. 2024
• The Colorado Buffaloes were rocking in the first half against Stanford.
  — Ryan Gaydos, Fox News, 14 Oct. 2023
• Rihanna, per usual, was way ahead of the trend; she's been rocking red-on-red-on-red since the dawn of 2023.
  — Kara Nesvig, Allure, 12 Dec. 2023
• From the start of his time in Congress, Roy has been happy to rock the Republican boat.
  — Joseph Morton, Dallas News, 6 July 2023
• At 11 years old, he and his friends were rocked by a nearby explosion while playing in the street.
  — Michael Kurima, San Diego Union-Tribune, 21 Sep. 2023

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rock

2 of 2 noun

• The Greta Garbo of rock still did enough to reach the Hall of Fame.
  — George Varga, San Diego Union-Tribune, 14 May 2023
• The men dropped the tubes near some rocks, knocking a cloud of dust into the air.
  — Blake Nelson, San Diego Union-Tribune, 24 Nov. 2023
• They cannot be secured with duct tape, rocks, bricks or sand.
  — Haadiza Ogwude, The Enquirer, 31 Aug. 2023
• By the end of the decade, rock 'n' roll had overtaken the pop charts and singing quartets were on the decline.
  — Andrew Selsky, USA TODAY, 28 May 2023
• The one word that best describes the version of indie rock offered by the Stews?
  — Haben Kelati, Washington Post, 12 July 2023
• Snow patches clung to craggy rock faces — a rare sight in the last gasps of summer.
  — Lila Seidman, Los Angeles Times, 11 Sep. 2023
• The crew scrambled out of their bunks, expecting to see a rock or rogue wave.
  — WIRED, 15 June 2023
• On a hill were two mounds of sand and rock with stone finials, connected by a beam that was wrapped in the blue prayer cloths.
  — Aatish Taseer, New York Times, 9 Nov. 2023
• The brother then grabbed another rock, placed it in his slingshot and struck the man again, this time in the chest.
  — Artemis Moshtaghian, CNN, 15 May 2023
• Rest in peace to one of my favorite artists of all time, the legendary queen of rock n’ roll Tina Turner.
  — Spin Staff, SPIN, 24 May 2023
• But the general thrust of it was just to play in a simple rock shuffle.
  — Andy Greene, Rolling Stone, 26 July 2023
• The top of the decanter is made from carbon fiber and styled to look like natural grain or rock.
  — Jonah Flicker, Robb Report, 30 May 2023
• Bernardo was the rock for his siblings after the loss of their parents.
  — Liam Quinn, Peoplemag, 6 Dec. 2023
• For 60 years, scientists have tried to get rock samples of the Earth’s mantle.
  — Darren Orf, Popular Mechanics, 8 June 2023
• The taiga’s pulse of winter freeze and summer thaw grinds rock into dust, as do the rasp-tongues of glaciers high in some mountains.
  — Krista Stevens, Longreads, 2 May 2024
• But all of these space rocks put together still don’t add up to enough water to fill Earth’s oceans.
  — Melissa Gaskill, Popular Mechanics, 12 July 2023
• My producers like to call it a Southern swampy rock song.
  — Tricia Despres, Peoplemag, 16 May 2023
• The rock and sediments that make up the world's continental shelves are not dry.
  — Rob L. Evans, Scientific American, 15 June 2023
• The rock icon also had kind words for Billboard, of which he’s remained an avid reader for decades.
  — Joe Lynch, Billboard, 21 June 2023
• Mothers lay a clutch of about 60 eggs and affix them to the rock, tending them constantly.
  — Tara Wu, Smithsonian Magazine, 31 Aug. 2023
• The event kicked off with a live performance from Waters singing and playing the guitar with his rock band.
  — Rebecca Rosenberg, Fox News, 26 Sep. 2023
• In those cases, the seawall is left in place and some of the ecosystem services can be achieved by placing rock in front of the seawall.
  — Thomas F. Ries, Sun Sentinel, 16 Jan. 2024
• The dress code here is casual, like the atmosphere, and the music has a welcome rock ‘n’ roll slant.
  — Miami Herald Archives, Miami Herald, 8 Feb. 2024
• Hike to the top of one of the surrounding dunes dunes for a stunning view of Uluru and the nearby domed rocks of Kata Tjuta.
  — Melissa Locker, Travel + Leisure, 17 Dec. 2023
• There are plenty of fields to dump rock dust onto, and plenty of water for carbon to end up in.
  — Gregory Barber, WIRED, 7 Dec. 2023
• What a surprising thing at my age to be able to go out and still for a living play rock ‘n’ roll, which for a lot of people is the dream.
  — Julie Seabaugh, Los Angeles Times, 27 Mar. 2024
• Those areas of the beach are peppered with big and small rocks, which makes walking tricky and strenuous.
  — Seth Liss, Los Angeles Times, 5 Oct. 2023
• The pancakes, or layers of soil and rocks, may appear fairly evenly stacked and fluffy.
  — Kasha Patel, Anchorage Daily News, 30 May 2023
• His live, full-band versions of the same songs absolutely rock.
  — Travis M. Andrews, Washington Post, 28 Mar. 2024
• What's more, the rocks that make up the rubble pile are thought to date back about 4.5 billion years — around the time our solar system was first forming.
  — Joshua Rapp Learn, Discover Magazine, 9 Nov. 2023

Last Updated: 28 May 2024