How to Use counterculture in a Sentence

counterculture

noun
  • He was part of the antiwar counterculture.
  • What used to be thought of as counterculture is now par for the course.
    — Jason Parham, WIRED, 6 Feb. 2024
  • As far as the counterculture stuff, yeah.
    — Matt Donnelly, Variety, 17 Dec. 2025
  • What effect did that counterculture ethos have on you and your art?
    — Jason Newman, Rolling Stone, 10 Mar. 2026
  • And the one with all the psychedelics and the counterculture origins.
    — Recode Staff, Recode, 13 June 2018
  • But, for the most part, signs of the counterculture were muted.
    — Emily Witt, The New Yorker, 29 Dec. 2021
  • It’s known as eco-friendly and open to artists and countercultures.
    — Matt Donnelly, Variety, 27 Mar. 2025
  • What may have started as a goofy, counterculture look has become full-on trendy.
    — Lily Ritter, Outside, 14 Jan. 2026
  • The first one was a comment on the hold of drugs that was beginning to take hold in the counterculture.
    — Tim Greiving, Los Angeles Times, 9 Aug. 2019
  • Mastodon isn’t the same as before—there are more mainstream voices mixed in with the counterculture.
    — WIRED, 7 Feb. 2023
  • The leading bands of Detroit counterculture were cut from the same cloth.
    — Brian McCollum, Detroit Free Press, 26 Jan. 2024
  • Anderson was drawn to the counterculture, and found a group of friends within the city’s small but noisy punk scene.
    — Rebecca Mead, The New Yorker, 29 July 2024
  • Stunts and gags drew attention to the hot new company just as the counterculture took off.
    — Michael O’Donnell, The Atlantic, 5 Aug. 2021
  • Rock and roll has always been about embracing the counterculture and going against the grain.
    — Jenny Ta, Rolling Stone, 26 Dec. 2022
  • The counterculture movement in the 1960s brought about the rise of jean shorts.
    — Hannah Jackson, Vogue, 4 July 2024
  • Communal arrangements are seen as a toll paid by the poor, the young, and counterculture weirdos.
    — Lola Milholland, TIME, 3 Sep. 2024
  • Skateboarding once was part of the counterculture, a haven for misfit kids, backed by soundtracks of punk and rap.
    — John Branch, New York Times, 26 Jan. 2020
  • Shop vintage where counterculture still breathes.
    — Lewis Nunn, Forbes.com, 22 Jan. 2026
  • That same kind of counterculture is what makes Argentina be in such turmoil.
    — Los Angeles Times, 2 July 2026
  • The first head shop in this state at the forefront of counterculture and legal marijuana plans to close with the new year.
    — USA TODAY, 4 Dec. 2019
  • The job gave him a taste for counterculture comedy and the nuts and bolts of indie production.
    — Scott Roxborough, HollywoodReporter, 27 Aug. 2025
  • The books spawned reading groups across the country and filtered into the counterculture.
    — Sam Kestenbaum, New York Times, 29 Oct. 2019
  • The group took prominence during the rise of the counterculture and became a symbol of the movement.
    — Jared Gans, The Hill, 12 Jan. 2026
  • Cast him in a western, The Cowboys, on the waning side of the peak of the counterculture.
    — Matt Goulet, Esquire, 18 Sep. 2017
  • In the 1960s, with the rise of the counterculture, totems became an even more widespread trope.
    — Glenn Adamson, Artforum, 2 May 2026
  • At first, Guy didn’t know what to make of the emerging counterculture that embraced him in the Sixties.
    — David Browne, Rolling Stone, 30 Nov. 2025
  • Cheech and Chong often seemed like they were simply meant to be, sprouting up like a random weed plant from the soil of the counterculture.
    — Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 28 Apr. 2025
  • One of the defining bands of the late 1960s hippie counterculture.
    — Troy L. Smith, cleveland, 30 Oct. 2021
  • Yet the influence of the 1970s counterculture food movement is too great to be laughed off.
    — Jonathan Kauffman, San Francisco Chronicle, 19 Jan. 2018
  • The Rowds were the only counterculture vibe I had ever been exposed to at this point.
    — Literary Hub, 12 Jan. 2026

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