How to Use counterculture in a Sentence

counterculture

noun

• He was part of the antiwar counterculture.
• Black people are counterculture by the very nature of our being.
  — Stephanie Beasley and Emanuel Cavallaro, The Root, 23 Sep. 2017
• Catch highlights from its history and learn how counterculture and activism tie in to how this form of media is born and raised.
  — OregonLive.com, 17 Jan. 2018
• Cast him in a western, The Cowboys, on the waning side of the peak of the counterculture.
  — Matt Goulet, Esquire, 18 Sep. 2017
• Inside the skateboarding counterculture, there are two holy grails.
  — Wayne Ma, WSJ, 12 Sep. 2017
• The Flamin' Groovies were neither counterculture nor mainstream.
  — Troy L. Smith, cleveland.com, 18 Oct. 2017
• The younger teachers, products of 1960s counterculture, took the side of the students who put on the presentation.
  — James Angelos, New York Times, 10 Oct. 2017
• The surging counterculture—and their drugs—made mainstream America suspicious.
  — Erin Blakemore, Smithsonian, 27 Oct. 2017
• And the one with all the psychedelics and the counterculture origins.
  — Recode Staff, Recode, 13 June 2018
• The counterculture movement in the 1960s brought about the rise of jean shorts.
  — Hannah Jackson, Vogue, 19 July 2023
• Esalen was a sort of hub for the counterculture of its day.
  — Anthony Gottlieb, New York Times, 21 June 2018
• Guthrie’s work set the stage for the 1960s counterculture in the East Village.
  — Anthony Alofsin, Smithsonian Magazine, 24 Feb. 2020
• What used to be thought of as counterculture is now par for the course.
  — Jason Parham, WIRED, 6 Feb. 2024
• But, for the most part, signs of the counterculture were muted.
  — Emily Witt, The New Yorker, 29 Dec. 2021
• The first one was a comment on the hold of drugs that was beginning to take hold in the counterculture.
  — Tim Greiving, Los Angeles Times, 9 Aug. 2019
• In the 1960s, counterculture communes sprang up in Oregon and around the world.
  — oregonlive, 8 July 2020
• Launched in San Francisco, Rolling Stone played a pioneering role in coverage of the counterculture and the rise of rock music.
  — Richard Verrier, latimes.com, 21 Dec. 2017
• Still, for all the cult of the counterculture, the fate of the VW bus, starting in the nineteen-sixties, mainly had to do with the price of chicken.
  — Jill Lepore, The New Yorker, 18 July 2022
• One of the defining bands of the late 1960s hippie counterculture.
  — Troy L. Smith, cleveland, 30 Oct. 2021
• The drug has long lingered in the shadows of counterculture.
  — Lisa M. Krieger, The Mercury News, 9 Aug. 2024
• Anderson was drawn to the counterculture, and found a group of friends within the city’s small but noisy punk scene.
  — Rebecca Mead, The New Yorker, 29 July 2024
• The leading bands of Detroit counterculture were cut from the same cloth.
  — Brian McCollum, Detroit Free Press, 26 Jan. 2024
• The background to King Crimson is in the counterculture.
  — Jon Pareles, New York Times, 19 Sep. 2022
• An emblem of the 1960s counterculture in the United States.
  — Chicago Tribune Staff, chicagotribune.com, 10 July 2019
• Psychedelics have been banned at the federal level since the Nixon era, a response to the counterculture movement of the 1960s.
  — Todd J. Gillman, Dallas News, 13 July 2023
• Yet the influence of the 1970s counterculture food movement is too great to be laughed off.
  — Jonathan Kauffman, San Francisco Chronicle, 19 Jan. 2018
• Mastodon isn’t the same as before—there are more mainstream voices mixed in with the counterculture.
  — WIRED, 7 Feb. 2023
• My guide, Finn, took me for a walk to discover the urban counterculture of the former East Berlin.
  — Laura Parker, Forbes, 18 May 2022
• Since then, it’s moved West and morphed into a slick, high-end wellness behemoth—a constant site of workaday paparazzi photos, a case study in capitalism posing as counterculture.
  — Hannah Goldfield, The New Yorker, 30 Sep. 2024
• Advertisement The Famous Amos stores’ success was swift, becoming a magnet for celebrities, counterculture figures and children’s birthday parties.
  — Cindy Carcamo, Los Angeles Times, 3 Sep. 2024

Last Updated: 12 Dec 2024