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
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
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
That girl was still going round from chair to chair selling beadwork, her hair curly, messy, grunge, but her face all smiles.
From "Legendary Frybread Drive-In" by Cynthia Leitich Smith
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