How to Use beatnik in a Sentence

beatnik

noun
  • There’s a touch of the beatnik and a touch of the hippie here.
    — Brian T. Allen, National Review, 29 Feb. 2020
  • The café boasted the city’s first espresso machine and catered to the beatnik scene.
    — oregonlive, 23 Mar. 2023
  • On your right is the way out pad of the beatnik-hippie Grateful Dead.
    — Marin Independent Journal, The Mercury News, 11 Feb. 2017
  • Perhaps in response the free surfer has turned ever more scraggly-haired, more rambling beatnik.
    — Jamie Brisick, The New Yorker, 26 Aug. 2019
  • Golden State’s floor leader, Curry, exudes the vibes of a beatnik, not a brawler.
    — Karen Crouse, New York Times, 11 Feb. 2016
  • According to his son, Crump was a beatnik with a reputation as a rebel among the Disney fold.
    — Todd Martens, Los Angeles Times, 13 Mar. 2023
  • But that generation-defining gesture isn’t just the stale move of a 1950s beatnik.
    — New York Times, 24 Feb. 2020
  • Few can actually wear one on a regular basis without looking like a pretentious beatnik.
    — Julie Ma, The Cut, 1 Mar. 2018
  • Crump was known for his eccentric beatnik style and pop art approach, which was evident in his personal art projects, such as a series of posters celebrating drugs.
    — Pat Saperstein, Variety, 13 Mar. 2023
  • Beneath the Spotify present and the punk-rock attitude, there’s the heart of a beatnik to Gasoline Rainbow.
    — Alison Willmore, Vulture, 10 May 2024
  • Everybody in the audience wants to see the English guitar band, and here's this kind of beatnik-looking guy from New Jersey.
    — Sam Gillette, Peoplemag, 23 Sep. 2022
  • The ecstatic transport here was as much to Fluxus as to the San Francisco beatnik clubs of the 1950s.
    — Los Angeles Times, 8 Sep. 2019
  • Novak's Gillian is a chic, Greenwich Village witch in the beatnik era who owns an unusual art gallery and an extremely unusual black cat.
    — Gwen Ihnat, EW.com, 26 Sep. 2023
  • This month’s events in the city encompass everything from the Castro Street Fair to the week-long Litquake, a chance to indulge your inner beatnik.
    — Mark Ellwood, CNT, 5 Sep. 2017
  • Suzuki is a young beatnik of Greenwich Village, a moral, sharp-witted kid wanting a place where children can be taken seriously, free to manage their own affairs.
    — Literary Hub, 10 June 2026
  • The landlord was a bearded beatnik, a vestige of another era, who’d bought several ramshackle structures for a song in the sixties and liked to curate an assortment of interesting tenants.
    — Sarah Braunstein, The New Yorker, 21 July 2024
  • The chances of finding a springbok in the National Museum were about as strong as finding a beatnik on a bog road between Balleybofey and Lifford.
    — Paul Muldoon, The New Yorker, 4 Oct. 2021
  • John Sinclair, the beatnik poet and Detroit counterculture icon, died Tuesday morning of heart failure at 82.
    — Brian McCollum, Detroit Free Press, 12 Apr. 2024
  • Le Bus, however, stemmed from its founder's disruptive idea of chartering inexpensive shuttle buses to fetch young clubbers and beatniks from neighboring suburbs and drop them home in the early hours of the day.
    — Lindsey Tramuta, Travel + Leisure, 23 May 2026
  • Also, the Cool Post Office was founded in 1885, so Todd must have either been a very forward-thinking beatnik, or a time-traveling one.
    — Ken Jennings, Condé Nast Traveler, 28 May 2018
  • These beatnik businessmen were precursors to the libertarians who turned broadly toward the counterculture in the 1960s.
    — Jeet Heer, New Republic, 15 Feb. 2018
  • Stand-up partially originated in the Village in the 1950s, in coffeehouses where folk musicians and beatnik poets entertained too.
    — Cnt Editors, Condé Nast Traveler, 14 Apr. 2020
  • Big Sur, ancestral home of the Esselen Tribe, former refuge for beatniks and literati like Henry Miller, and a hiking haven where the redwoods meet the Pacific Ocean, is fully accessible once more.
    — Aislyn Greene, AFAR Media, 16 Jan. 2026

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