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
• Even though my career has always maintained in the mainstream, that song just put me right back in the spotlight.
  — Andre Gee, Rolling Stone, 12 Nov. 2023
• The leotard helps lift star gymnasts into the mainstream.
  — Thuc Nhi Nguyen, Orlando Sentinel, 11 July 2024
• In All the Jingle Ladies, her nightmares are revisited when the song gets used in a new hit film, bringing it back into the mainstream.
  — Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 8 Dec. 2024

Last Updated: 28 Dec 2024