Example sentences for: rock

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

  • But they also don’t seem to mind when the tranquillity of a Zen temple rock garden is shattered by recorded announcements blaring from loudspeakers parroting the information already contained in the leaflets provided at the ticket office; when heavy-metal pop music loudly emanates from the radio of the middle-aged owner of a corner grocery store; and when parks, gardens, and hallowed temples are ringed by garish souvenir shops whose shelves display both the tastefully understated and the hideously kitsch.

  • If Sinatra was the father of rock 'n' roll, as almost every tribute of the past few days has claimed, it was only Oedipally, as the oppressive father figure you were just itching to slay.

  • Book -- Easy Riders, Raging Bulls: How the Sex-Drugs-and-Rock 'n' Roll Generation Saved Hollywood , by Peter Biskind;

  • Beijing also offers bungee jumping (at the Shidu Bungee Jumping Facility in the Fangshan District), paintball (at Color Me Purple in Wanfangting Park), rock climbing (at the Qidagudu Climbing Club in the Xuanwu District), horseback riding (check with the Movenpick Hotel), and shooting (at the China North Shooting Range near the Great Wall Badaling — where even machine guns are for rent).

  • Dillard’s became one of the first department stores in the late 1980s to build a centralized inventory-tracking system to provide its headquarters in Little Rock, Arkansas, with real-time information on sales, by both store and item.


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