How to Use punk rock in a Sentence

punk rock

noun
  • The Damned were the first English punk rock band to tour the U.S.
    Jim Ruland, Los Angeles Times, 1 Feb. 2022
  • These were the last great days of the punk rock movement.
    Chadd Scott, Forbes, 12 July 2022
  • The band plays a mix of '80s metal, rock, grunge and punk rock.
    Hannah Kirby, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 13 June 2018
  • Westwood first rose to prominence in the U.K. punk rock scene of the 1970s.
    Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 29 Dec. 2022
  • The Pretenders served as a bridge between punk rock and the new wave sounds of the 1980s.
    Troy L. Smith, cleveland, 30 Oct. 2021
  • The track holds true to the concept of punk rock getting a catchy facelift.
    Troy L. Smith, cleveland, 2 Mar. 2022
  • Coats wasn’t from the punk rock world and didn’t know who Morris was.
    Steve Appleford, Los Angeles Times, 26 July 2024
  • As the name suggests, pop punk has its roots in punk rock.
    Troy L. Smith, cleveland, 2 Mar. 2022
  • Gang of Four took punk rock and tilted it further to the left.
    Kory Grow, Rolling Stone, 12 Mar. 2021
  • The combo makes every dude look like a punk rock god about to take the stage.
    Kelsey Stiegman, Seventeen, 29 Apr. 2019
  • Beto O'Rourke was in a punk rock band, Foss, at one point.
    Katherine J. Igoe, Marie Claire, 14 Mar. 2019
  • Rollins is known for being the singer/frontman for the punk rock band Black Flag.
    Baltimore Sun Staff, Baltimore Sun, 19 Sep. 2023
  • Soti is more of this punk rock drummer from Long Beach.
    Alexandra Schonfeld, Peoplemag, 12 Oct. 2023
  • But many of this past year’s stars sang in ways that recalled punk rock.
    Spencer Kornhaber, The Atlantic, 20 Dec. 2021
  • The boys in Blink-182 were wannabe rock stars who happened to play poppy punk rock.
    Jim Ruland, Los Angeles Times, 3 Nov. 2021
  • Pink, blue and 'punk rock' hair Long hair isn't the only target.
    Amy Haneline, USA TODAY, 29 Oct. 2019
  • Lee Bains and the Glory Fires are known for their Southern punk rock bangers.
    Sophia Solano, Washington Post, 10 Aug. 2022
  • Most days, the playlists lean a little more punk rock, Egbert says.
    Tirion Morris, The Arizona Republic, 3 Sep. 2021
  • About three years ago, Fat Mike came to Vegas with the idea of opening a punk rock store.
    Brett Martin, New York Times, 28 Nov. 2023
  • There was just a few of us that knew about it—both skateboarding and punk rock.
    Brad Cohan, SPIN, 13 June 2023
  • Brokaw has roots in post-punk rock bands like Codeine and Come who released indie records in the 1990s.
    Manuel Mendoza, Dallas News, 16 Jan. 2020
  • The outfit combo makes every dude look like a punk rock god about to take the stage.
    Yoora Kim, Seventeen, 28 Mar. 2023
  • Born at the right time for the punk rock revolution, Clements was a big Clash fan.
    Jim Higgins, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 23 Jan. 2020
  • Speck expects to see these grungy punk rock bangs make a comeback in 2023.
    Loren Savini, Allure, 2 Feb. 2023
  • The part of me that will always be punk rock thought this was exactly what the Clash would do.
    José Adorno, BGR, 24 Oct. 2022
  • As someone who came out of the punk rock scene in New York, later on, that’s what that place was for me.
    Jazz Tangcay, Variety, 31 Jan. 2022
  • Passages Jamie Reid, the artist who helped give British punk rock its edgy, rough-hewn look, has died at 76.
    Carolina A. Miranda, Los Angeles Times, 12 Aug. 2023
  • Meanwhile, the part of Madonna’s punk rock boyfriend nearly went to a young Bruce Willis.
    Pat Saperstein, Variety, 21 June 2024
  • It’s got skateboarding, it’s got punk rock clubs, it’s got Nineties music.
    Tomás Mier, Rolling Stone, 16 Sep. 2024
  • Earlier that day, Jason Cohen had mentioned to me that Tucker's had almost a punk rock ethos.
    Keith Pandolfi, The Enquirer, 27 Sep. 2024

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