How to Use the mainstream in a Sentence

the mainstream

noun
  • Over the past few years, ’90s style has returned to the mainstream.
    Madeleine Aggeler, New York Times, 31 Mar. 2023
  • That has long since fallen from the ears of the mass public, of the mainstream.
    Alan Hernández Pastén, SPIN, 2 Mar. 2023
  • The sudden death of someone who was so new to the mainstream was of course a shock.
    Paul Grein, Billboard, 20 Sep. 2023
  • The challenge for us now will be to push it out into the mainstream.
    Yasmeen Serhan, TIME, 10 Dec. 2024
  • But after the boom came the bust, and the garment billowed out of the mainstream in the decades that followed.
    Isiah Magsino, Town & Country, 2 Sep. 2023
  • At present, few Black artists rise to the mainstream charts’ highest spots.
    Danielle Amir Jackson Malike Sidibe, New York Times, 11 Oct. 2023
  • Yet in recent years, the mainstream seems to be catching up to Owens.
    Nick Haramis Ola Rindal Dogukan Nesanir, New York Times, 16 Feb. 2024
  • Trap was heavy, trap music was super heavy in the clubs; the mainstream clubs.
    Okla Jones, Essence, 28 Oct. 2023
  • Blues has got to be put back in the mainstream for total survival.
    Margie Goldsmith, Forbes, 16 Mar. 2023
  • Suddenly, Carey had stepped out of the mainstream and was now cool.
    Cliff Joannou, Rolling Stone, 27 July 2023
  • The Smart #3 takes an even bigger step towards the mainstream.
    James Morris, Forbes, 29 Nov. 2024
  • To embrace the split toe is to consciously buck the mainstream.
    Amy X. Wang, New York Times, 26 Sep. 2023
  • For the first time, the true depth of the Palestinian struggle was thrust onto the mainstream stage.
    Hoda Sherif, TIME, 10 May 2024
  • Trans women who do try to make it by playing to the mainstream are shut out, too.
    Frankie De La Cretaz, Them, 10 Oct. 2024
  • But there is no space for Black women like me in the mainstream markets.
    Cerys Davies, Los Angeles Times, 16 July 2024
  • As ever, trends are being set by those with the vision to break away from the mainstream.
    Jill Newman, Robb Report, 18 Nov. 2023
  • To live the goth lifestyle is to reject the mainstream and embrace a bit of darkness and melancholy.
    Kevin Jacobsen, EW.com, 21 Feb. 2024
  • Truman led the mainstream Democrats and carried 28 states.
    W. Joseph Campbell, Fortune, 5 Apr. 2024
  • How a fringe claim about immigrants eating pets made it to the mainstream.
    Elizabeth Robinson, NBC News, 13 Sep. 2024
  • NFTs have now hit the mainstream, with big names from the music world jumping on the bandwagon.
    Kim Pham, Rolling Stone, 18 Oct. 2023
  • Is the mainstream media guilty of trying to cover up Biden’s age?
    Stephen Stromberg, Washington Post, 11 July 2024
  • So, what happens when a beloved cult brand begins to hit the mainstream zeitgeist?
    Kerensa Cadenas, ELLE, 10 Aug. 2023
  • And at the end of the day, when people want something, [there’s] nothing the mainstream can really do to stop it.
    Gary Washburn, BostonGlobe.com, 5 Aug. 2023
  • Tesla was the first company to bring over-the-air software updates to the mainstream.
    Andrew J. Hawkins, The Verge, 12 Oct. 2023
  • It’s happened with every genre of Black music that’s hit the mainstream.
    Kate Nelson, Condé Nast Traveler, 17 Aug. 2024
  • Yet, the president-elect brags about killing the mainstream media.
    Matt Robison, Newsweek, 20 Nov. 2024
  • By 1980, the extremism of Goldwater had become the mainstream of the GOP.
    David Conrads, The Christian Science Monitor, 7 Mar. 2023
  • The pop song launched the 22-year-old singer into the mainstream, and now he’s nominated for Best New Artist at the Grammys.
    Lea Veloso, StyleCaster, 2 Feb. 2025
  • Schatz is working off a playbook that assumes the courts, remade over the last two decades to be decidedly right-of-center, will stick to the law as the mainstream legal community has long interpreted it.
    Philip Elliott, TIME, 10 Feb. 2025
  • Democrats assert daily, aided by the mainstream media, that the United States faces a constitutional crisis.
    Matt Klink, Orange County Register, 19 Feb. 2025

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