How to Use rock and roll in a Sentence

rock and roll

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  • The texture and the bigness and the rock and roll of it.
    Paige Stables, Allure, 1 Dec. 2022
  • The tour is set to prove that rock and roll is far from dead.
    Tomás Mier, PEOPLE.com, 10 Dec. 2021
  • Baltin: What does the spirit of rock and roll mean to you?
    Steve Baltin, Forbes, 6 May 2022
  • Houses of the Holy blew the doors off rock and roll in my opinion.
    Liza Lentini, SPIN, 18 Mar. 2022
  • The King made this song famous with his rock and roll take on it.
    Kelly O'Sullivan, Country Living, 7 Nov. 2022
  • Cory Wells sang this song so well — the way it should be sung — kind of fun and rock and roll.
    George Varga, San Diego Union-Tribune, 19 Nov. 2023
  • Needless to say, fans of the rock and roll legend are in for quite a show.
    Globe Correspondent, BostonGlobe.com, 13 July 2022
  • Then, work on your moves to classic rock and roll tunes.
    Cameron Jenkins, Good Housekeeping, 11 Aug. 2022
  • Get ready to rock and roll: Elvis will be on demand, soon.
    Emily Burack, Town & Country, 4 Aug. 2022
  • That's where the visceral punch comes from in rock and roll.
    James Brown, USA TODAY, 25 Dec. 2022
  • The whole idea was to show that rock and roll and rap could live together.
    Daniela Avila, Peoplemag, 2 Feb. 2024
  • There are dozens on sale with some as low as $6.59, like this Vinyl Gold Elvis that looks ready to rock and roll.
    Quentyn Kennemer, The Verge, 18 Jan. 2024
  • Oh wow, this is kind of the death of rock and roll and pop star outrageousness.
    Vulture, 22 Jan. 2024
  • The pirate show is a love story, a rock and roll love story.
    Todd Gilchrist, Variety, 21 Dec. 2022
  • Steal Dawn, playing classic rock and roll, is from 8 to 10 p.m.
    Linda McIntosh, San Diego Union-Tribune, 22 July 2022
  • The synonymous instrument with rock is the guitar, and the face of rock and roll is the white male face.
    Carl Lamarre, Billboard, 4 Feb. 2022
  • Tina Turner, a rock and roll icon, died on Tuesday at 83.
    Sarah Roberts, BostonGlobe.com, 24 May 2023
  • And then there were some which were just straight rock and roll punk arrangements.
    Steve Appleford, SPIN, 6 Feb. 2023
  • His musical genius reshaped the rock and roll scene and the sound of the 1970’s and well beyond.
    Katie Atkinson, Billboard, 9 Aug. 2023
  • Bowie at this point is riding high on rock and roll stardom.
    Jordan A. Rothacker, SPIN, 20 Dec. 2023
  • The rock and roll track was dropped as a single from the album Dynamite!
    Tomás Mier, Peoplemag, 24 May 2023
  • In the 1970s, the big rock and roll bands began making regular trips north.
    David Reamer, Anchorage Daily News, 10 Apr. 2022
  • Some of the greatest rock and roll music ever was released in that year.
    Jim Ryan, Forbes, 6 May 2022
  • Yeah, but the country music hall of fame, there’s nothing nearly as cool as the rock and roll hall of fame.
    Laura Johnston, cleveland, 6 May 2022
  • But, on the right, the bassist was locked in, radiating an attitude of pure rock and roll.
    The New Yorker, 27 Mar. 2022
  • If Fox is giving rock and roll, her fiancé is sticking to punk.
    Kathleen Walsh, Glamour, 8 Dec. 2022
  • The 1976 farewell concert at the center of the film was already a piece of rock and roll history by the time the film debuted.
    Steven Gaydos, Variety, 9 Oct. 2023
  • In full rock and roll fashion, both boys whip their hair back and forth throughout the performance.
    Georgia Slater, Peoplemag, 17 Aug. 2022
  • In full rock and roll fashion, both boys whipped their hair back and forth throughout the performance.
    Georgia Slater, Peoplemag, 29 Sep. 2022
  • This bluesy banshee sounded like no other white man in rock and roll.
    James Wood, The New Yorker, 24 Jan. 2022

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