grunge
Example Sentences
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It’s as if a bubbly Jonas Brothers single got infected by a toxic cloud of grunge.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 28, 2026
And while it didn’t exactly fly off the shelves, its concurrence with the height of the Seattle grunge music scene made the disheveled aesthetic a street-style must-have.
From Salon • Mar. 27, 2026
Yet long before earning all these accolades, Shakira was a teen girl in Baranquilla, Colombia, waiting in line at her local record store for a copy of Nirvana’s 1991 grunge magnum opus, “Nevermind.”
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 18, 2026
The instrument also paved the way to an aesthetics of electricity—feedback, distortion, fuzz, sheer volume—that led to such genres as heavy metal, punk, grunge and shoegaze.
From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 14, 2026
He usually dated underclassmen with Alanis Morissette-style hair and an affinity for grunge attire.
From "Americanized" by Sara Saedi
