Example sentences for: pop-culture

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

  • Critics praise the Long Island duo's latest offering as "their best album since 1990's Business As Usual " (Rob Hart, CMJ ). Erick Sermon and Parrish Smith's music is up to their usual high standards, but even more impressive are their lyrics, which "weave together tapestries of obscure pop-culture references and rap history homages that could keep lesser rhymers in business forever" (Matt Diehl, Entertainment Weekly ).

  • Disney CEO Eisner, who's actually underrated as a pop-culture maven (he was responsible for Happy Days and Welcome Back, Kotter ), insists that ABC's downturn is cyclical and that it will soon return to life.

  • "Interncourse" doesn't exactly flow easily off the tongue, while "Wag the Intern" rests too heavily on an ephemeral pop-culture reference that will be lost on future generations.

  • The upstart did not just so much challenge Cosby as envelop it: In perhaps the most sustained of the winking pop-culture references for which it has become famous (and on which it came to depend rather too heavily as time went on), The Simpsons soon featured an avuncular African-American physician with a penchant for multicolored sweaters.

  • Indeed, seen in a contemporary light, Darger begins to look like a progenitor of that rather common, campy sensibility--what might be called Mouseketeer Gothic--that sees angelic pop-culture figures as actually creepy and frightening.


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