Example sentences for: subculture

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

  • 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.

  • Often ignored is the subculture of the pinto experience that is exhibited in behavior, art expression, and published poetry.

  • The grammar of the original language is kept, but a distinctive vocabulary develops, quite often when referring to activities or areas important to the subculture that the creating the language.

  • It exemplifies liberals' wholehearted embrace of the gay-rights movement: "[T]he very fact that the vice president could use the phrase 'came out' and assume that his listeners knew exactly what he meant is an indication of how the private language of the homosexual subculture has become the common language of the cultural elite."

  • Scott claims that "Groening's willing, if somewhat ironic, embrace of the marketing bonanza his creation has unleashed may have cost him his rightful spot in the the Comics Journal 's highbrow/subculture pantheon."


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