How to Use mosh pit in a Sentence

mosh pit

noun
  • The crowd raged with the music; the mosh pit pulsed.
    — Ariane Lange, Sacbee.com, 13 Nov. 2025
  • As the band played, their fans’ dancing eventually turned into a mosh pit.
    — David Hill, Rolling Stone, 15 Oct. 2025
  • With chants in unison, mosh pits and bright red jerseys, the supporters made their presence felt.
    — Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 22 June 2026
  • From there, Rocky emerges from a garage with rollers in his hair, jumping into a mosh pit and taking a hit to the face.
    — Tomás Mier, Rolling Stone, 5 Jan. 2026
  • People in the mosh pit appear to be outnumbered by glowing smartphones.
    — Chris R. Morgan, The Washington Examiner, 22 Aug. 2025
  • The song set forth the biggest mosh pit of the night and served as the perfect celebratory way to end the tour in their hometown.
    — Charlie Vargas, Oc Register, 26 Nov. 2025
  • An individual particle can find some peace; a trillion billion are like a mosh pit.
    — Dan Garisto, Scientific American, 7 Oct. 2025
  • Model/Actriz, the hard-core band fronted by Cole Haden, is on a mission to make mosh pit slay.
    — Craig Jenkins, Vulture, 21 Apr. 2026
  • For about 20 minutes, the Giardini felt less like a sculpture park than a mosh pit.
    — Daniel Cassady, ARTnews.com, 6 May 2026
  • The enthusiasm reminds me of going to an Opium gig, except with no mosh pits and everyone seems to be an adult with a job.
    — Alphonse Pierre, Pitchfork, 30 Jan. 2026
  • It’s inspired by a video of a mosh pit in a Houston-area Denny’s that went viral in 2013.
    — Fielding Buck, Oc Register, 8 May 2026
  • The titular vampire gang has formed a band, and when its members start to shred, the stage sinks down to create a mosh pit—a hellish underworld into which victims later drop.
    — Emily Nussbaum, New Yorker, 30 Apr. 2026
  • That connection eventually drew him from headbanging and mosh pits in central Indiana venues to the peace and quiet of the outdoors.
    — Karl Schneider, IndyStar, 16 Sep. 2025
  • Curious Black patrons jumped into the mosh pit, feeling welcome enough to try it, while old heads were reanimated by genre nostalgia.
    — Deborah Sengupta Stith, Austin American Statesman, 17 Mar. 2026
  • As the hot, crowded waiting room starts to resemble a mosh pit, two ICE agents appear in the emergency department.
    — Judy Berman, Time, 20 Mar. 2026
  • There’s always new songs to talk about, new articles, new happenings, new viral occurrences, new albums; that’s just a constant mosh pit every week and just keeping up with it.
    — Dave Smith, Fortune, 12 Aug. 2025
  • For many of the afternoon-arriving spectators, the steamy walk into the festival was filled with chatter of favorite bands, mosh pit stories, cigarette smoke and smiles.
    — Matthew Glowicki, Louisville Courier Journal, 19 Sep. 2025
  • Cheryl — who jumped in the mosh pit briefly at the first party — hung out in the back, sitting on her walker and gently joshing Erika’s young son for wearing earplugs while a singer screamed into the microphone.
    — Ariane Lange, Sacbee.com, 13 Nov. 2025
  • The Philadelphia punks sound like they were swept off to the Middle Ages in a mosh pit and immediately started a revolution.
    — Brad Sanders, Pitchfork, 6 Apr. 2026
  • And just last year, an Irish punk band started mosh pits in an upscale restaurant while a McDonald’s breakfast campaign sponsored chart-topping Norteño.
    — Ramon Ramirez, Austin American Statesman, 11 Mar. 2026
  • At the climax, the music, seemingly stuck in a digital rut, comes to a halt as a static image of Charli is busted through by a bunch of young men seemingly bringing a mosh pit out into the open.
    — Chris Willman, Variety, 8 May 2026

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