How to Use cyberpunk in a Sentence

cyberpunk

noun
  • The car silently and accurately slinks around curves, with the precision of sci-fi cyberpunk killer snake assassin.
    Rob Verger, Popular Science, 9 Aug. 2023
  • The series is based on a cyberpunk novel of the same name.
    Eliana Dockterman, Time, 27 Dec. 2017
  • But where the 1993 film took the brothers into a gonzo cyberpunk fever dream, the new Super Mario Bros. plays it safe.
    Christopher Cruz, Rolling Stone, 4 Apr. 2023
  • For the record, each model had crimped blonde cyberpunk hair, deep red lips, intense stares and stomps.
    Tara Gonzalez, Harper's BAZAAR, 27 June 2023
  • As such, a game that could play like a cyberpunk thriller often feels like a slice-of-life story, a trip through the most complex and detailed world Square Enix could muster.
    Julie Muncy, Wired, 10 Apr. 2020
  • First up is Cyberpunk 2077, the game about a dark cyberpunk future where Keanu Reeves never ages.
    Julie Muncy, Wired, 17 Jan. 2020
  • Take a look: Since 2008, Taylor's gone from curly-haired country to classic beauty to edgy cyberpunk.
    Elizabeth Denton, Seventeen, 28 Apr. 2017
  • For the final event before the big show, the remaining 12 entered the digital age in a cyberpunk standoff.
    Emily Gaynor, Teen Vogue, 17 July 2017
  • Her songs draw on the cyberpunk heroism celebrated in our pages and pixels.
    WIRED, 8 Aug. 2023
  • The Matrix is a classic hero’s-journey narrative, wrapped up in a cyberpunk dressing and stuffed with sci-fi hacker talk.
    David Sims, The Atlantic, 21 Aug. 2019
  • Perhaps the most exciting of these is an adaptation of Neil Stephenson's 1992 cyberpunk cult hit Snow Crash.
    Sophie Weiner, Popular Mechanics, 29 Sep. 2017
  • Against a bright yellow backdrop, Offset performs in a number of cyberpunk pieces made from waxy leather and PVC (his rave-ready, flared jeans in particular are a stand out).
    Rachel Hahn, Vogue, 17 Apr. 2019
  • The car silently and accurately slinks around curves, with the precision of sci-fi cyberpunk killer snake assassin.
    Kevin Williams, Popular Science, 10 Apr. 2023
  • Battle Angel, the cyberpunk epic based on the popular manga series, has very few bankable stars.
    Pamela McClintock, The Hollywood Reporter, 27 Apr. 2018
  • These garments are often black, throwbacks to the cyberpunk look that dominated 1999’s The Matrix.
    Nadra Nittle, Vox, 24 Oct. 2018
  • Gibson was far from the first sci-fi writer to explore computers and their consequences; a movement, soon to be known as cyberpunk, was already under way.
    Joshua Rothman, The New Yorker, 9 Dec. 2019
  • BrickinNick said he's long been a fan of Tesla and cyberpunk aesthetics, and built and rebuilt his original Cybertruck model over the course of a 24-hour live stream on his Twitch channel.
    Sebastian Blanco, Car and Driver, 26 Jan. 2020
  • The bracelet is like an anti-smartwatch, both in its cyberpunk aesthetic and in its purpose of defeating technology.
    New York Times, 14 Feb. 2020
  • But Harajuku fashion has, historically, comprised styles like Lolita, a doll-like sort of subset of kawaii, goth, and cyberpunk, among others.
    Katherine Cusumano, Teen Vogue, 10 Apr. 2018
  • The System Shock remake was announced back in 2015, soon after developer Nightdive tracked down the elusive rights to the classic cyberpunk horror series.
    Adi Robertson, The Verge, 14 Mar. 2023
  • The darker potential of technology is a staple of William Gibson’s and Bruce Sterling’s cyberpunk.
    Jennifer Senior, New York Times, 2 Oct. 2016
  • One of the most expensive anime films ever made, Ghost in the Shell came to theaters when cyberpunk stories were becoming massively popular.
    Tiffany Kelly, Popular Mechanics, 31 Mar. 2017
  • The company has some other fun things for aspiring cyberpunk car owners to play with — literally.
    Andrew Liptak, The Verge, 29 June 2019
  • There were the traditional New Age types: hippies, cyberpunks, and transhumanists, too.
    Joi Ito, WIRED, 4 June 2018
  • At one point the studio said up-patching the game would be too time-consuming, given its focus on its mysterious next game, a cyberpunk fantasy set in an open-world metropolis.
    Matt Peckham, Time, 4 Oct. 2017
  • This time around it’s Transistor, Supergiant’s cyberpunk tactics-lite game.
    Hayden Dingman, PCWorld, 15 Apr. 2019
  • After over a million man-hours of construction and nearly a decade of preparation, the super-computer optimized nightmare of cyberpunk wires and tubes was finally turned on, and its initial test was a success.
    Eric Limer, Popular Mechanics, 4 Feb. 2016
  • Dame Helen Mirren was in attendance, channeling Kojima’s cyberpunk-meets-postpunk aesthetic in a long black blazer with a Radiohead patch on the breast.
    Adrian Chen, New York Times, 3 Mar. 2020
  • His releases as Perturbator are steeped in a neo-cyberpunk aesthetic that gradually gets under one’s skin with a sense of oncoming doom befitting a dark sci-fi film.
    Monica Kendrick, Chicago Reader, 29 Sep. 2017
  • His new movie Chappie maintains the cyberpunk styling of his previous films District 9 and Elysium while addressing new thematic areas with a comedic undertone.
    Ramy, Popular Mechanics, 3 Mar. 2015

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