How to Use counterculture in a Sentence

counterculture

noun

• He was part of the antiwar counterculture.
• 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
• 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
• 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
• The first head shop in this state at the forefront of counterculture and legal marijuana plans to close with the new year.
  — USA TODAY, 4 Dec. 2019
• The Mamas and the Papas were an integral part of the 1960s counterculture.
  — Troy L. Smith, cleveland, 11 Jan. 2022
• Johnson: Not just the lesbian mafia, but the whole counterculture.
  — Agatha French, latimes.com, 30 Mar. 2018
• Striking out for a sixth time was the MC5, the Detroit band whose high-octane counterculture music helped set the stage for hard rock and punk.
  — Brian McCollum, Detroit Free Press, 4 May 2022
• Unless, for a hero of the counterculture like Gordon, obliterating the brand is, in fact, the brand.
  — Chris Richards, Washington Post, 8 Mar. 2024
• Adding to the import of the tour was the presence of Allen Ginsberg, the counterculture’s poet laureate.
  — latimes.com, 11 June 2019
• Art Nouveau became the house style for the counterculture of the mid 20th century.
  — Regina Cole, Forbes, 1 Jan. 2023
• If counterculture and a thriving art scene are selling points to you, Santa Fe will win you over in 2024.
  — Steph Koyfman, Condé Nast Traveler, 19 Dec. 2023
• If counterculture and a thriving art scene are selling points to you, Santa Fe will win you over in 2024.
  — Steph Koyfman, Condé Nast Traveler, 20 Dec. 2023
• Typically cheap, army surplus stores informed counterculture style in the 1960s, later shaping the uniform of aughts indie bands like The Strokes.
  — Zoe Whitfield, CNN, 9 Oct. 2024
• This, coupled with the counterculture’s embrace of psychedelics, led to a perception shift — from a tool for scientific exploration to a dangerous societal threat.
  — Milan Kordestani, Rolling Stone, 9 Aug. 2024

Last Updated: 18 Nov 2024