How to Use subculture in a Sentence

subculture

noun
  • The script was very much looking at a subculture.
    — David Canfield, HollywoodReporter, 16 Dec. 2025
  • Gibbs' binders full of sheet music touch all sorts of subcultures.
    — Leo Bertucci, Louisville Courier Journal, 9 Oct. 2025
  • Every film like this starts with a subculture.
    — Chris Cardillo, Rolling Stone, 5 Nov. 2025
  • Like all post-war subcultures, goth was born out of a need to rage against the machine.
    — Tish Weinstock, Vogue, 31 Aug. 2024
  • Of course, slang can come from other subcultures.
    — Michael Tedder, The Atlantic, 25 Jan. 2026
  • We’re spoiled for choice; even the most niche subculture is never more than a few clicks away.
    — Philip Sherburne, Pitchfork, 9 Dec. 2024
  • So there may be a whole subculture of music/Way fans who knew about it.
    — cleveland, 7 Aug. 2020
  • Club culture is close to subculture in which clothing speaks in code.
    — Vogue, 20 Aug. 2019
  • What works better is how the miniseries brings the whole chess subculture to life.
    — Darren Franich, EW.com, 21 Oct. 2020
  • Li grew up in a unique subculture where crime spoke many languages and crossed borders with ease.
    — Sebastian Rotella, ProPublica, 11 Oct. 2022
  • Hip-hop, by then a dynamic subculture, was walloped but would not be set back.
    — Danyel Smith, New York Times, 8 Aug. 2023
  • Her career has since been marked by books that celebrate cities and their subcultures.
    — Emily Witt, The New Yorker, 21 Mar. 2024
  • But there are critics of this subculture, who claim the dogs are exploited.
    — Diane Herbst, PEOPLE.com, 17 Dec. 2019
  • These are nights of nostalgia, but for many, the punk subculture is a lifestyle.
    — Dallas News, 30 Dec. 2022
  • Rather than compromise its sound for rock hits, though, the band became a full-on subculture.
    — August Brown, Los Angeles Times, 11 Sep. 2024
  • Adherents of the straight edge subculture would draw large X's on their hands.
    — James Doubek, NPR, 17 Mar. 2026
  • Then, of course, there's the entire subculture of people who obsess over their pets!
    — Gabrielle Deleon, Houston Chronicle, 22 Mar. 2018
  • These were scary times, and Britain’s youth needed a subculture that would reflect this.
    — Tish Weinstock, Vogue, 31 Aug. 2024
  • Her work, written and visual, explores style, scenes, and subcultures past and present.
    — Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 24 Apr. 2026
  • But the five-years-long beef is a glimpse of a rap subculture suffocating on its own bloodlust.
    — Andre Gee, Rolling Stone, 26 Oct. 2024
  • As much as anything else, these marketplaces are full-fledged subcultures.
    — Allie Garfinkle, Fortune, 6 May 2026
  • No one was getting any money then, so these guys were risking their lives to get their name out into the subculture.
    — Cole Louison, GQ, 3 Apr. 2018
  • Even within rock, the subcultures were divided — and none more so than the punk and heavy metal crowds.
    — Jem Aswad, Variety, 7 Nov. 2025
  • What began as a way to give a larger platform to what used to be considered a subculture.
    — Jessi Roti, chicagotribune.com, 21 July 2019
  • In the close subculture of strongmen and strongwomen, her suicide came as a shock, even among those who knew her well.
    — John Leland, New York Times, 20 Jan. 2023
  • There’s this whole subculture of teenagers all the way through ages 29 and 30, my wife being one of them.
    — Jessi Virtusio, chicagotribune.com, 25 Mar. 2022
  • The cycle that Columbine helped kick off has evolved into a subculture that is dark, unwieldy, and durable.
    — Charlie Warzel, The Atlantic, 4 Sep. 2025
  • This documentary short is an ode to the kind of style that binds a subculture together.
    — The New Yorker, 15 Sep. 2023
  • What have four seasons of the show taught you about that part of the country and the evangelical subculture?
    — Alison Herman, Variety, 21 Apr. 2025
  • And each venue has its own personality, its own look and feel that drives its own subculture within the show.
    — Steve Baltin, Forbes.com, 14 Aug. 2025

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