How to Use soft rock in a Sentence

soft rock

noun
  • Music will range from pop and soft rock to country and show tunes.
    — Pomerado News, San Diego Union-Tribune, 5 June 2024
  • The reggae and soft rock even resulted in a drop in blood pressure and stress for the dogs.
    — Cathy M. Rosenthal, ExpressNews.com, 27 Sep. 2019
  • Running through the shale—a relatively soft rock—was a fault.
    — Bypaul Voosen, science.org, 7 Nov. 2024
  • The Dead was already such a crazy scene, but there are all these soft rock stations playing that song.
    — Los Angeles Times, 30 Apr. 2026
  • This is listed as an alternative rock, soft rock and pop rock song on Wikipedia.
    — Kris Holt, Forbes, 20 June 2022
  • Yet at the show’s start, the novelty factor was dulled by a pileup of young acts doing soft rock.
    — Spencer Kornhaber, The Atlantic, 15 Mar. 2021
  • Our current music collection has a lot of Easy-breezy soft rock, yacht rock.
    — Liza Lentini, SPIN, 13 Dec. 2024
  • Busta’s epic song grew out of a soft rock tune and became one of the great miracles of Nineties hip hop.
    — Troy L. Smith, cleveland, 13 Apr. 2021
  • Reggae and soft rock music reduced stress, barking habits and heart rates among our furry friends, the research found.
    — Herb Scribner, Washington Post, 25 Aug. 2023
  • Musician Dash Crofts, one half of the soft rock duo Seals & Crofts, has died.
    — Edward Segarra, USA Today, 26 Mar. 2026
  • The song is far more intricate than most of the other soft rock anthems of the 1980s.
    — Troy L. Smith, cleveland, 13 May 2021
  • Desperado flowed nicely, had a virtuso mix of soft rock and country, and this tune, one of their finest.
    — Paul Daugherty, Cincinnati.com, 14 Jan. 2020
  • This soft rock hit poetically explores young love and the loss of innocence.
    — Maggie Horton, Country Living, 2 Aug. 2022
  • Evening entertainment is low-key (think acoustic guitars and soft rock tunes under a starry sky).
    — Allison Tibaldi, USA Today, 27 Sep. 2025
  • The stadium's audio system switched from rap to soft rock for Houston's batters to take their cuts.
    — USA TODAY, 24 Oct. 2017
  • Yacht rock is a term to describe soft rock from the late 1970s and early 1980s.
    — Janelle Ash , Larry Fink, FOXNews.com, 1 Apr. 2026
  • And, another fun fact that’s interesting to discover is the soft rock song with the most covers.
    — Anne Easton, Forbes.com, 29 Aug. 2025
  • Nathaniel was a shy, undersized adolescent who favored soft rock and Motown.
    — New York Times, 16 June 2022
  • But elsewhere the dominant influence seems to be seventies soft rock.
    — Kelefa Sanneh, New Yorker, 8 May 2026
  • The three-part documentary will include new interviews with soft rock artists, as well as archival and performance footage.
    — Melinda Newman, Billboard, 8 Mar. 2022
  • The soundtrack alone, with its intrusive string of montage-backing soft rock tunes, could shut down less forgiving viewers.
    — Gary Goldstein, latimes.com, 14 Sep. 2017
  • Its radio mix turns it into a jaunty ’70s soft rock jam worthy of Fleetwood Mac.
    — Richard S. He, Billboard, 28 Aug. 2019
  • His 1972 album Bread Winners was a tribute to the soft rock band Bread.
    — Greg Evans, Deadline, 24 Oct. 2024
  • The title track from the new album by the reliable hitmakers is an unabashed love letter to ‘70s soft rock.
    — Melissa Ruggieri, USA TODAY, 8 June 2022
  • And here Kgasi was, pulling bone after bone out of the soft rock, ultimately extracting the entire skeleton and a chunk of the skull.
    — Ari Daniel, NPR, 4 Feb. 2026
  • The band will perform a blend of 80s, 90s and current covers of rock, soft rock, and best of alternative songs.
    — Chris Shelton, Houston Chronicle, 22 June 2020
  • Gunpowder & Sky is in the process of reaching out to iconic soft rock and metal artists to participate in both docuseries.
    — Melinda Newman, Billboard, 8 Mar. 2022
  • After playing a nice upbeat music mix during the Dodgers time on the field, the playlist turned to a mix of 70s and 80s soft rock.
    — Jenny Dial Creech, Houston Chronicle, 24 Oct. 2017
  • The free concert, directed by Carl Allison, features pop, country music, soft rock and show tunes from across the decades.
    — Linda McIntosh, San Diego Union-Tribune, 6 Jan. 2024
  • Her music, too, tightropes the line between glitzy country pop and 1970s California soft rock.
    — Sophia Solano, Washington Post, 23 July 2023

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