How to Use rocker in a Sentence

rocker

noun
  • In many ways, these young male rockers were ahead of their time.
    Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 27 Jan. 2025
  • The pair had been dating for less than a year when the Blink-182 rocker got down on one knee.
    Kelly Wynne, PEOPLE.com, 15 May 2022
  • Plant was the rare exception to the short rocker trend.
    Matt Wake | Mwake@al.com, al, 14 Oct. 2021
  • The deep door sills are hidden in the rocker-panel trim.
    Dan Neil, WSJ, 11 Mar. 2022
  • The rocker who tops his wish list to share a stage and a scream with is Foo Fighters’ Dave Grohl.
    Melinda Newman, Billboard, 15 July 2024
  • The milestone marks the UK rockers’ first video to accomplish the feat.
    Rania Aniftos, Billboard, 24 Apr. 2024
  • The ‘80s rockers quencher is black with neon colors making up the rest of the design.
    Christopher Murray, Fox News, 17 Sep. 2024
  • Sadly, the Nashville alt-rocker isn’t the first AGT alum who has died since their time on the show.
    Glenn Rowley, Billboard, 9 Aug. 2022
  • That deep rocker shines in mank, breakable crust, and tracked pow.
    Marc Peruzzi, Outside Online, 9 Jan. 2022
  • And then, as if the rockers weren’t enough, the second act: There was a grand piano on the other side of the concourse.
    Robert Klose, The Christian Science Monitor, 14 Dec. 2023
  • Platform boots, rocker plaids, and leather pants are in again.
    ELLE, 8 Mar. 2022
  • Who says being a rocker in 2023 doesn’t have its perks?
    David Browne, Rolling Stone, 17 Jan. 2023
  • Think: bright logos, thick rails, flat rocker, and a wide tail.
    Zander Morton, Outside Online, 27 May 2022
  • Osbourne went missing for 24 hours, with the police called to help search for the rocker.
    Marianne Garvey, CNN, 2 Feb. 2023
  • To give the apparel more of a rocker edge, the former The Voice coach walked out in a pair of black leather platform heels.
    Adrianna Freedman, Good Housekeeping, 6 Apr. 2023
  • The only major caveat to our top pick is the mild rocker and lack of energy on the toe-off.
    Sarah Kester, Travel + Leisure, 30 Jan. 2024
  • The RockaRoo is a rocker with a gliding motion that moves front to back.
    Hamza Shaban, Washington Post, 15 Aug. 2022
  • Every rocker knows the biggest hits are touched by both God and the Devil.
    Rich Cohen, WSJ, 12 Nov. 2022
  • Katy Perry took on the challenge with this rocker luxe look.
    Ann Wang, Seventeen, 9 Nov. 2022
  • The base has an analog knob and power button to control the range of motion of the rocker.
    Mark Heim | Mheim@al.com, al, 16 Aug. 2022
  • There was a time when being a rocker or a metalhead in Mexico was a crime in the eyes of the state.
    Alan Hernández Pastén, SPIN, 2 Mar. 2023
  • The British actress, who played Ros on Game of Thrones, was one of more than a dozen women to speak out against the shock-rocker last year.
    Jason Newman, Rolling Stone, 27 Apr. 2022
  • And finally, Joe, a celebrity rocker, the one who made it.
    Ellen Akins, Washington Post, 29 July 2023
  • When backed by his band, the rocker can put entire crowds under his spell.
    Mike Miller, EW.com, 16 Dec. 2022
  • The fuel lid and seat are unlocked via a rocker switch adjacent to the main knob.
    Josh Max, Forbes, 25 Mar. 2022
  • But who will play Sphere following the famed Irish rockers?
    Eric Renner Brown, Billboard, 28 Sep. 2023
  • Like Meat, Foley was a theater actor and a rough rocker with hard-nosed chops on both sides of the ledger.
    A.d. Amorosi, Variety, 21 Jan. 2022
  • Artists including the rocker Neil Young and the singer Joni Mitchell pulled their music from the platform in protest.
    Alyssa Lukpat, WSJ, 30 Nov. 2022
  • During his own speech, Trump spoke about Kid Rock, saying the rocker had called him and asked him if he could be involved with the convention.
    Janelle Ash, Fox News, 11 Feb. 2025
  • The band claims multiple albums and compilations that have sold well into the millions of copies, and a number of tracks pushed by the rockers have also accumulated massive sales sums throughout the years.
    Hugh McIntyre, Forbes, 20 Feb. 2025

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