grunge
Example Sentences
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The grunge collection may have helped define the era’s style and, in later years, proven Jacobs’ visionary status.
From Salon • Mar. 27, 2026
Their signature sound, much like the East L.A. neighborhood they grew up in, is a melting pot of influences, combining old-school cumbias, ’90s grunge, and psychedelic rock into something completely unique to them.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 11, 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
A signature development—and a true detail—is that Eddie Vedder actually asked them to perform as an opener for his grunge band Pearl Jam, which was as cool as anything could be at the time.
From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 24, 2025
Feigning shame, I showed it to some hard grunge types, to their even harder women, to red-faced professionals.
From "Native Speaker" by Chang-rae Lee
