How to Use breakbeat in a Sentence

breakbeat

noun
  • The track, as yet untitled, rides a drum-and-bass-style breakbeat that could best be described as filthy.
    — Jeff Ihaza, Rolling Stone, 14 Aug. 2025
  • Left Unsaid, a jazz breakbeat fusion duo, performed live for the first time at Unusual Tuesday‘s last April show.
    — Christopher Buchanan, Los Angeles Times, 18 May 2026
  • The 60-foot geodesic dome provided a place for people to cool down and take in breakbeats, dubstep and, eventually, other electronic subgenres.
    — Niyaz Pirani, Los Angeles Times, 10 Apr. 2026
  • Surprising melodic choices ride a chameleonic song structure that stutters and shrieks, bounces and raves with a fresh mix of Big Beat, UKG, breakbeats, and electro-pop sounds.
    — Kat Bein, SPIN, 21 May 2026
  • Ryan Davis, a singer and songwriter from Louisville, Kentucky, makes tuneful, funny music that’s vaguely rooted in country and indie-rock, but also leaves room for hard left turns, including unforeseeable breakbeats.
    — Amanda Petrusich, New Yorker, 1 Dec. 2025
  • As if rapping from a speeding time machine, Wiki flows about yellow taxis turning into Uber Eats over an instrumental that cruises from a soft breakbeat into a total breakdown of glitchy scratches courtesy of Lil Ugly Mane.
    — Lei Takanashi, Pitchfork, 16 June 2026
  • Twenty years ago, critic Mark Fisher described Burial’s Untrue as a kind of sonic hauntology, a montage of fractured breakbeats, spectral vocal fragments, and crackle collapsing past and future into a single, diffuse texture.
    — Keegan Brady, Rolling Stone, 25 Mar. 2026

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