How to Use scenester in a Sentence

scenester

noun
  • Outside, dolled-up scenesters swarmed the barricades under the glow of the discotheque’s instantly recognizable marquee, lighting up Instagram stories for twenty-four hours.
    Alex Catarinella, Forbes.com, 19 Sep. 2025
  • As if to cool that fire, classical selections are used to bed large swathes of the film, with electronic grooves that hark back to the heyday of acid house from Paul Hartnoll, co-founder of British rave scenesters Orbital.
    Leslie Felperin, HollywoodReporter, 15 May 2026
  • Power to the People is a portrait of John and Yoko as a young married couple splashing down in New York City, making friends with the local radicals and con men and boho scenesters.
    Rob Sheffield, Rolling Stone, 14 Oct. 2025
  • New York’s uptown rap scene began cross-pollenating with the downtown new wave groups, and in 1981 Bambaata was invited by graffiti artist and scenester Fab Five Freddy to perform at venues like the Mudd Club and the Ritz.
    Jem Aswad, Variety, 9 Apr. 2026
  • Built on the bones of the Thunderbird Motel (born 1962), it was purchased by Andre Balazs and remodeled into a millennial party palace, beckoning to budget scenesters far and wide from 1999 until its closure in 2021.
    Seth Abramovitch, HollywoodReporter, 3 Nov. 2025
  • On the Mississippi Gulf Coast, where in the late Nineties 3 Doors Down grew such a rabid fanbase that label heads Monte Lipman of Universal and Jason Flom of Lava/Atlantic came in person to meet them, local scenesters remembered the generosity Arnold and the band showed them.
    Jim Beaugez, Rolling Stone, 15 Feb. 2026

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