How to Use subgenre in a Sentence

subgenre

noun
  • Star Wars fits in this subgenre as well.
    — Erik Kain, Forbes.com, 19 Aug. 2025
  • Yes, please go on; tell us more about our new favorite subgenre.
    — Devon Ivie, Vulture, 23 Nov. 2021
  • There is a subgenre of songs made from Slacks from pesky bosses.
    — Nathan Brackett, Rolling Stone, 25 May 2026
  • Patrick is working in a subgenre of a subgenre.
    — Borys Kit, HollywoodReporter, 12 June 2026
  • Since then, hip-hop has spawned a mass of subgenres – gangsta rap, crunk and trap among them.
    — Melissa Ruggieri, USA TODAY, 11 Aug. 2023
  • What are your favorite trendy, niche subgenres?
    — Clare Mulroy, USA Today, 21 Aug. 2025
  • The Latin music subgenre has had a presence in the region for decades.
    — Fidel Martinez, Los Angeles Times, 26 Sep. 2024
  • Detroit rap is the most hilarious subgenre in hip-hop right now.
    — Andre Gee, Rolling Stone, 12 May 2023
  • So many westerns are effectively road movies, which is sort of your subgenre.
    — Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 8 Dec. 2023
  • It’s been super-inclusive to all the subgenres of hip-hop, it’s been great to see.
    — Kyle Denis, Billboard, 15 Aug. 2023
  • There’s perhaps not quite enough meat on the subgenre’s bones to gnaw on for 108 minutes.
    — Noel Murray, Los Angeles Times, 30 July 2023
  • There’s also, what subgenres of horror are next?
    — Alison Herman, Variety, 17 June 2026
  • While her work is an excellent entry point into the subgenre, your reading need not end there.
    — Paula L. Woods, Los Angeles Times, 26 Oct. 2023
  • Such novelty seems a must these days for a crime-movie subgenre so susceptible to cliché.
    — Justin Chang, The New Yorker, 21 Mar. 2025
  • Dear was part of the underground rap scene and known for his work in the sigilkore subgenre of trap music.
    — Kimi Robinson, USA Today, 24 Feb. 2026
  • Of all the horror subgenres, the werewolf movie is perhaps the hardest to pull off.
    — Jordan Mintzer, The Hollywood Reporter, 26 July 2024
  • Which brings us to the musical subgenre within the the wide world of Wordle.
    — Glenn Rowley, Billboard, 22 Mar. 2022
  • There are so many subgenres within the genre, and there is something for everyone.
    — Brian Davids, HollywoodReporter, 10 June 2026
  • Finding a new niche subgenre is practically a love language of mine.
    — Clare Mulroy, USA Today, 21 Aug. 2025
  • There’s so—like, that’s the category, but there are so many subgenres under that.
    — Steve Baltin, Forbes.com, 6 June 2025
  • Certainly, all of the above will enhance a sports movie into that greater realm of great movie, not one reduced to a subgenre.
    — Ben Flanagan | [email protected], al, 8 Apr. 2023
  • Learn how medicine can swap out failing body parts, from prostheses to transplants and beyond from the queen of the subgenre.
    — Lizz Schumer, PEOPLE, 13 Nov. 2025
  • The dance subgenre can swell into something bigger if another notable artist takes a crack at it.
    — Carl Lamarre, Billboard, 7 Feb. 2023
  • It is regarded as one of the greatest wuxia, a subgenre of martial arts, ever made.
    — Pamela McClintock, The Hollywood Reporter, 1 Aug. 2024
  • There is seemingly a show for each subgenre for fans of all those great 2000s series.
    — Kelly Lawler, USA Today, 9 May 2025
  • Each segment showcases one of the crime scenes and explores horror subgenres along the way.
    — Jesse Whittock, Deadline, 18 Mar. 2025
  • As recent entries in the subgenre have proven, there’s plenty of compassion to be squeezed from the slasher genre as well.
    — Richard Newby, The Hollywood Reporter, 14 Mar. 2025
  • With the groundwork laid, drill went from an unheard-of subgenre to rap’s most promising yet controversial new face.
    — Trey Alston, Vulture, 17 Aug. 2022
  • But the first two films, both directed by Eli Roth, represent the best of the subgenre.
    — Katie Rife, IndieWire, 12 Aug. 2024
  • Her songs have also been classified as trillwave, a dreamy, lo-fi subgenre of Southern rap.
    — Danyel Smith, New York Times, 8 Feb. 2023

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