grunge
Example Sentences
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Celeste took our breath away with a grungier, angrier sound than the floaty jazz-soul of her debut.
From BBC • Jun. 29, 2025
It delivered Davis’s first gold and platinum albums, and shifted mainstream jazz from elegant arrangements optimized for cramped nightclubs to bigger, grungier structures tailor-made for stadium speakers.
From New York Times • Mar. 28, 2023
“It was all dirtier and grungier and louder. You’d have to go to Aberdeen to find anything close to it, with Melvins and Nirvana.”
From Seattle Times • Oct. 18, 2022
As budding singer-songwriters with distinctive voices and a penchant for wordplay, they offered a much-needed bridge from plasticine 1980s pop to a grungier, earthier 1990s-era sound.
From Salon • Apr. 25, 2020
But always at the center is “Mike and Phil,” the two forces behind the show whose back-and-forth crossed many species for oddball sketches that at times resembled a grungier descendant of “South Park.”
From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 31, 2018
