Example sentences for: genres

How can you use “genres” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Although pop music has grown more complicated, most current performers continue to recombine elements from the '50s, '60s, and '70s--sometimes literally ( sampling , a technique crucial to many current pop genres, involves lifting passages from older recordings and using them in new ones).

  • An interesting mix of genres (vampire and Western) winds up as a hokey mess: "[T]his gummy mix of fake-Catholic mumbo jumbo and teeth-in-neck horror goes limp" (Lisa Schwarzbaum, Entertainment Weekly ). "[T]he unintended campiness of Vampires makes Night of the Living Dead look like an episode of Nightline " (Michael O'Sullivan, the Washington Post ). But Gene Siskel praises the film, calling it "surprisingly entertaining" ( Chicago Tribune ). (Watch the trailer.)

  • Chicano students have taken an active interest in folklore in the last twenty years, and archives established at the University of California at Berkeley and Los Angeles hold growing collections of many genres of Mexican American folklore.

  • Refreshingly, this is one of the few works that does not contain references to other art genres, but jousts with the concept of the image itself, again a reflection of nothing at all.

  • If only certain genres of prose could be as succinct!


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