Example sentences for: subculture

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

  • At my inaugural hockey-parents' meeting, I realized that I had wandered into a vast and all-encompassing subculture.

  • At best, the stone-faced attitudes of retail-outlet clerks have become the manifestation of a subculture that is soon to disappear, like all the other subcultures that have faded into history.

  • morality play on the subject of loyalty" (Donald Westlake, the New York Times Book Review ). Though it retreads tired observations about Mafia life, Underboss still enriches the "portrait of a subculture some of us can't get enough of" (Bruce Handy, Time ). (HarperCollins plugs the book.)

  • What I mean is that being a wizard is very much like being gay: You grow up in a hostile world governed by codes and norms that seem nonsensical to you, and you discover at a certain age that there are people like you--what's more, there's a whole subculture with its own codes and norms right alongside the straight (muggle) one, yet strangely invisible to it.

  • Next we encounter an X-Files moment--a blurry black-and-white photo that's even less distinct than the ones of flying saucers that are the talismans of an entire subculture.


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