punky

Example Sentences

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They had developed kindred styles on their solo albums, absorbing lapidary Laurel Canyon folk-pop, punky electric-guitar drive, glimmers of electronics and psychedelia, and lyrics that mix confession and fantasy, the diaristic and the surreal.

From New York Times

So when I stepped into the Palace Theatre in downtown Los Angeles on Saturday evening, I could feel my brain toggling between punky skepticism and happy anticipation.

From Washington Post

Swamp ash—also called “music ash” or “punky ash”—is primarily green ash, but the term can encompass other species that grow in bottomlands, such as black ash and white ash.

From Scientific American

“There’s great demand, but I don’t think we’re going to have much punky ash to sell,” Jones says.

From Scientific American

After not much deliberation, he decided it would be punky and funny to forgo France and Spain and go to Kazakhstan.

From New York Times