How to Use raunch in a Sentence

raunch

noun
  • The art of the time was marked by both raunch and fear, wild abandon and anxious suspicion.
    — The New Yorker, 15 Mar. 2024
  • Just as often, though, that earnestness shades into insults and raunch.
    — Katy Waldman, Slate Magazine, 15 Feb. 2017
  • But by and large the show is still defined by extended riffs of surreal whimsy and raunch.
    — Spencer Kornhaber, The Atlantic, 13 Sep. 2017
  • But this was a nasty show, too, boldly evoking the raunch of American Pie-era youth.
    — Darren Franich, EW.com, 6 Dec. 2021
  • The show revels in both raunch and darkness, wrapping it up with quirky yet ruthless one-liners, and tops it off with canned laughter.
    — Darcie Wilder, The Cut, 21 Aug. 2017
  • The genre first came to notoriety for its lyrical raunch, a quality that has remained at the core of reggaeton.
    — Isabela Raygoza, Billboard, 9 Oct. 2022
  • But Support the Girls is not at all the winkingly misogynist raunch-com for dudes that such a premise might imply.
    — Alissa Wilkinson, Vox, 14 Dec. 2018
  • Despite the jubilance and raunch, the uncertainty that has shaken the nation in the past few days echoed throughout the show.
    — Ian Malone, Vogue, 3 Oct. 2019
  • What was your relationship with raunch comedy going into this?
    — Mikey O'Connell, The Hollywood Reporter, 23 June 2023
  • Mikey is a vision of early-aughts raunch culture grown desperate in middle age, but his ugliness is always masked with a twinge of humor.
    — Nate Jones, Vulture, 8 Nov. 2021
  • The show had its moments of raunch and spectacle, including topless dancers, multiple costume changes, aerial stunts and more.
    — Melody Chiu, Peoplemag, 25 Oct. 2023
  • As a genre, the romantic comedy has been on its last legs lately, mired in raunch and ribald jokes on the one hand, or insipid wish-fulfillment on the other.
    — Ann Hornaday, idahostatesman, 13 July 2017
  • There aren’t a ton of ideas in Bottoms aside from testing the limits of raunch, but Sennott and Edebiri do make a winsome pair.
    — Matthew Jacobs, Vulture, 16 Mar. 2023
  • Neither the retro raunch that emits from Stephanie’s mouth nor the satire of present-tense political correctitude is funnier than it is labored by any wide margin.
    — Dennis Harvey, Variety, 13 May 2022
  • Judd Apatow’s entire oeuvre is based on transplanting rom-com tropes into movies aimed more explicitly at the guy-heavy raunch-com audience.
    — Alissa Wilkinson, Vox, 29 Aug. 2018
  • The Country Bear Jamboree had a very oddball vaudevillian energy, its songs brimming with violence and raunch, all of it played for hyuks.
    — Rebecca Alter, Vulture, 29 Jan. 2024
  • That their 50-minute dialogue, both terrifying and hilarious in equal measure, exists at all in a comedy podcast so known for its raunch quotient is a miracle.
    — Sean Malin, Vulture, 25 Jan. 2023
  • McCartney injected that elevated raunch into the French house that had been long known for flouncy romance and femininity.
    — Liana Satenstein, Vogue, 22 Aug. 2021
  • Megan and Cardi simply update ancient dirty-blues vulgarity, now common lingo for generations brought up on Internet raunch.
    — Armond White, National Review, 14 Aug. 2020
  • Besides the raunch — which is less extreme than much of what flourishes in Hollywood — the New Bad Boys stand apart through their emphasis on character and theater.
    — Scott Timberg, Los Angeles Times, 16 Aug. 2019
  • Take the all-quadrant pandering and formulas of old-school network TV, add in the messianism of a telethon, and swirl in some Reddit-friendly raunch and crassness, and set it all to hyperspeed.
    — Spencer Kornhaber, The Atlantic, 11 Apr. 2020
  • Streaming on Prime from March 7, the movie might tap into the nostalgia of audiences raised on the Farrelly brand of goofy raunch, gross-out laughs, slapstick, escalating chaos and sticky sentiment.
    — David Rooney, The Hollywood Reporter, 6 Mar. 2024
  • The romantic comedy briefly revived the concept of female characters with authority and desires of their own, but was largely eclipsed in the 2000s by the raunch comedy and the dawn of the superhero era.
    — Sophie Gilbert, The Atlantic, 4 Aug. 2022
  • In typical trap fashion, which revels in the pleasures of excess, the Puerto Rican trap star manages to maneuver the juxtaposition of raunch, vulnerability and desire across a dozen tracks.
    — Ingrid Fajardo, Billboard, 27 Oct. 2023
  • But Coel also uses musical cues and flashbacks to nod to the early 2000s, when raunch culture was defining sexuality for a generation of women who are only now coming to terms with its consequences.
    — Sophie Gilbert, The Atlantic, 7 June 2020
  • Female viewers appear drawn by the romance and the toned bodies, of course, but also by the entirely consensual nature of the vigorous raunch, the desire for mutual pleasure between partners and the relative absence of macho toxicity.
    — David Rooney, HollywoodReporter, 3 Sep. 2019

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