punkie

Example Sentences

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Here’s McVie, as a songwriter, doing her best Lindsey Buckingham, rising to her bandmate’s challenge of bringing a punkier edge to the band’s sprawling 1979 double album “Tusk.”

From New York Times • Nov. 30, 2022

It’s their first attempt at reggae, played punkier, with a new, Jones-penned intro.

From The Guardian • Jan. 9, 2020

The Monkeys opened with “Four Out of Five,” a new song that owes more to David Bowie than Turner’s punkier early inspirations, foremost of whom is spoken-word performer John Cooper Clarke.

From Washington Post • Jul. 29, 2018

They preferred the punkier numbers, like “Even the Losers” and “Refugee,” to the Byrds-ier T.P.

From The New Yorker • Nov. 13, 2015

A punkier version of a song I’d heard before started to play over the coffee shop’s speakers.

From "The First Rule of Punk" by Celia C. Pérez