Example sentences for: punks

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

  • 2) He's a wimp for succumbing to a couple of right-wing punks (Sens.

  • Freeman and the great Brad Dourif) with a mixture of rage and amusement, the way that Clint Eastwood looks at punks who momentarily have the upper hand but who he knows will be a bloody pulp in a matter of moments.

  • His brawling and boozing in the '50s presaged the punks' brawling and boozing in the '70s.

  • They're just Old Punks, and that's a lot worse than being a Young Punk.

  • Most critics like this "surprisingly genial and affecting comedy about the trials and tribulations of teenage rebellion during the Reagan '80s" (Jami Bernard, Daily News ). The title refers to two Salt Lake City punks whose tentative attempts at rebellion are more funny and halfhearted than seriously anarchistic: It's "an absurdist coming-of-age comedy" that's "better defined by its polish than by punk trappings" (Maslin, New York Times ). Some are not impressed with the film's watered down rebellion: "[T]his energetic but poorly structured, rather self-congratulatory look at spike-haired rebelliousness in mid-'80s Utah could strike unbiased viewers as more grating than gratifying," and the film "doesn't quite grasp how its slick, flashy package undermines any actual punk cred" it might have (Dennis Harvey, Variety ). (Brush up on your own punk cred by seeing how many of these bands you know.)


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