grunge
Example Sentences
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Of Diamond’s ode to a life lived in denim, Vedder joked, “It’s the original grunge song.”
From Los Angeles Times • May 6, 2026
The grunge collection may have helped define the era’s style and, in later years, proven Jacobs’ visionary status.
From Salon • Mar. 27, 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
To showcase the “music, dance styles and feeling of the 1990s,” the ISU pointed them to pop, techno, hip-hop and grunge rock.
From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 9, 2026
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
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