How to Use grunge in a Sentence

grunge

noun

• I cleared the grunge out of the drains.
• I'm a fan of grunge.
• The ‘90s were the decade of grunge rock and rap-going-big.
  — Matt Wake | [e-mail], al, 18 July 2022
• Not the kind of grunge with the flannel and the Pearl Jams and whatnot.
  — Mike Sutter, San Antonio Express-News, 17 May 2018
• The mani fits right in with the resurgence in grunge goth glam.
  — Danielle Sinay, Glamour, 7 Mar. 2024
• The decade was marked by the rise of hip hop, the dot-com era, and grunge culture.
  — Brandee Gruener, Southern Living, 13 Sep. 2024
• The band plays a mix of '80s metal, rock, grunge and punk rock.
  — Hannah Kirby, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 13 June 2018
• But, then again, that was pretty much the grunge scene at the time.
  — Lucia Gillot, SPIN, 6 July 2023
• Shop below and add a dose of grunge to your fall wardrobe!
  — Dominique Hobdy, Essence, 3 Sep. 2019
• The rock opera leans heavily on grunge, which pins it to the 90's.
  — Emily Bamforth, cleveland.com, 5 Mar. 2018
• The grunge rock album reached No. 1 on the U.S. Billboard 200.
  — Heidi Pérez-Moreno, Washington Post, 23 Dec. 2023
• Ryan showed off a more grunge side in a leather jacket.
  — Alexandra Schonfeld, Peoplemag, 25 Oct. 2023
• Cornell was a leading voice of the grunge movement in the 1990s.
  — Sandy Cohen, The Denver Post, 26 May 2017
• As tech startups go, Artsy.net has just the right blend of grunge and glamour.
  — Michael Shnayerson, Town & Country, 15 Mar. 2018
• The Seattle native was a leading voice of the grunge movement in the 1990s.
  — The Associated Press, The Hollywood Reporter, 26 May 2017
• There’s kind of a grunge going on, a lot of available light.
  — Chris O'Falt, IndieWire, 6 Jan. 2025
• At the time, the high-low mix of grunge and glamour was groundbreaking.
  — Leanne Potts, Better Homes & Gardens, 2 Aug. 2023
• With the grunge clothing, Frulio is both artist and craftsman.
  — Rick Barrett, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 6 July 2018
• For Justin, the foam footwear goes grunge with metal hardware and a chunky sole.
  — Leah Campano, Seventeen, 4 Apr. 2022
• Jenkins wasn’t angry and didn’t fit the post-grunge mold.
  — Courtney Devores, charlotteobserver, 14 June 2017
• Pearl Jam was the most successful band to come out of the grunge movement.
  — Troy L. Smith, cleveland, 30 Oct. 2021
• Healey has long gray hair and peppery stubble and wears a grunge-like wardrobe.
  — Simon Parkin, The New Yorker, 19 Feb. 2020
• Also around then, there were the skinheads and punks, the New Wavers and goths, the grunge crowd and yuppies.
  — Eric J. Lyman, Fortune, 9 May 2021
• At the time, all this grunge and everything was coming in.
  — Andy Greene, Rolling Stone, 22 Apr. 2023
• Yet Big Thief’s style sounds more like old-time country crossed with grunge.
  — Mark Jenkins, Washington Post, 11 Nov. 2019
• But being the daughter of two of grunge's biggest names?
  — Gil Kaufman, Billboard, 5 Apr. 2018
• To play up the outfit's grunge appeal, Alexandra's hair was placed in a messy bun.
  — Adrianna Freedman, Good Housekeeping, 6 Nov. 2022
• Nirvana and Pearl Jam, two bastions of the grunge sound, are enshrined.
  — Chuck Yarborough, cleveland.com, 12 Aug. 2019
• Chris Cornell, perhaps best known as the lead singer of Soundgarden, one of the bands that defined the grunge sound of the ’90s, had died at the age of 52.
  — Krishnadev Calamur, The Atlantic, 18 May 2017
• Both Salma Hayek and Miley Cyrus married two of my fave throwback trends: glitter and grunge.
  — Katie McBroom, WWD, 6 Jan. 2025

Last Updated: 21 Feb 2025