How to Use emo in a Sentence

emo

noun

• There are traces of post-rock, shoegaze, and heavy emo.
  — Keegan Bradford, SPIN, 25 July 2024
• The twists are the cute emo cashier that keeps you coming back.
  — Emily Palmer Heller, Vulture, 14 May 2021
• The Cure marks the beginnings and peaks of both goth rock and emo.
  — Troy L. Smith, cleveland, 30 Oct. 2021
• So don't expect Iron Man to show up to fight the emo Spidey.
  — Eliana Dockterman, Time, 7 July 2017
• This isn’t a show of emo bands and metal bands and hard-core bands.
  — Nick Vadala, Philly.com, 9 May 2018
• The set, released in 2004, remains a standard in the emo world.
  — Hugh McIntyre, Forbes, 17 Oct. 2024
• To them, and to the many people that Emo Nite serves, the success of the event is all part of the plan to bust down the doors for emo.
  — Jessica Shalvoy, Variety, 10 June 2022
• And the return of Paramore, one of the most iconic emo bands of the past 20 years, is only part of the reason.
  — Sydney Bucksbaum, EW.com, 11 Feb. 2023
• At the same time, emo DNA is everywhere in the mainstream.
  — Peter C. Baker, The New Yorker, 28 July 2023
• My lil emo cancer heart is soooo grateful for the best friends a girl could have.
  — Jessica Sager, Peoplemag, 17 Feb. 2023
• The song is a welcome return, with its blend of emo and post-hardcore.
  — Spin Staff, SPIN, 12 May 2022
• Much of that community flowed around the edges of rap, emo, punk and trap.
  — Kenan Draughornestaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 13 Feb. 2023
• What transitioned me into that was the emo and scene days.
  — Christian Allaire, Vogue, 18 Aug. 2022
• The emo kids ruled the internet during the early 2010s.
  — Hannah Oh, Seventeen, 14 Dec. 2022
• Not to mention way more emo — The Cure and Joy Division both pop up.
  — Shannon Carlin, refinery29.com, 18 Nov. 2020
• On Wednesday, the beloved emo group released a whole batch of new dates for a reunion tour this fall.
  — Christian Holub, EW.com, 29 Jan. 2020
• The influence of bands like that stayed with us all the way through to our starting to play emo and punk ourselves.
  — Billboard Japan, Billboard, 21 Sep. 2022
• Around that time, Stereogum criticized Laroi as a grifter on the emo-rap wave.
  — Justin Curto, Vulture, 16 Aug. 2021
• Madison band Rainer Maria was one of the standout acts that emerged during the emo era from the mid-90s to the early aughts.
  — Piet Levy, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 14 Sep. 2017
• Cosplayers have found a home on the app, along with new wave emo kids and the anime obsessed.
  — Julia Alexander, The Verge, 5 Nov. 2018
• Have people warmed towards Paramore’s dropping of the mall emo look?
  — Chris Payne, Billboard, 12 May 2017
• Don't cry too many tears, my fellow emo kids and skaters – Vans won spot numero dos in 48 states.
  — Kelsey Stiegman, Seventeen, 25 May 2017
• The free event will feature the best pop-punk and emo tunes, past and present, all night long, for attendees 21 years and older.
  — Anne Nickoloff, cleveland, 22 July 2021
• The track takes pop, hip-hop, emo and screamo all into its stride for an intense trip into a wild night out in Paris.
  — Stephen Daw, Billboard, 15 Jan. 2021
• This gothily phallocentric boy-band ethos is part of why mid-aughts emo still seems, to many, like a joke.
  — Jia Tolentino, The New Yorker, 11 Jan. 2017
• The black and red color scheme of this outfit totally screams emo.
  — Hannah Oh, Seventeen, 14 Dec. 2022
• This song is in the pop punk, emo and alternative rock genres.
  — Kris Holt, Forbes, 9 Aug. 2022
• The Indonesian scene is more crusty, whereas the Russian scene is more ’90s emo and hardcore and youth crew.
  — Brendan Seibel, WIRED, 16 May 2010
• The iPod boom went with the rise of emo, backpack rap, and other mass-romantic cult genres.
  — Rob Sheffield, Rolling Stone, 13 May 2022
• A lot of musicians who helped make Warped Tour a signature festival for the pop-punk and emo genres have also stepped up to bring the heyday energy back for 2025.
  — Maya Georgi, Rolling Stone, 17 Oct. 2024

Last Updated: 12 Dec 2024