How to Use the mainstream in a Sentence

the mainstream

noun
  • This is just the mainstream stuff.
    — Katy Waldman, New Yorker, 9 Aug. 2025
  • For the band, less than half that time was spent in the mainstream.
    — Daniel Kreps, Rolling Stone, 7 Sep. 2025
  • Her show leaked into the mainstream like punk.
    — Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 17 June 2026
  • Of course, that wasn’t always the case, at least not in the mainstream.
    — Sam Reed, Glamour, 15 Apr. 2025
  • The challenge for us now will be to push it out into the mainstream.
    — Yasmeen Serhan, TIME, 10 Dec. 2024
  • Blues has got to be put back in the mainstream for total survival.
    — Margie Goldsmith, Forbes, 16 Mar. 2023
  • The crackpots are the mainstream.
    — David Frum, The Atlantic, 31 Dec. 2025
  • The phrase has made its way in the mainstream several times over the years.
    — Greta Cross, USA Today, 6 Sep. 2025
  • What lived outside of the mainstream now is the mainstream.
    — Alex Weprin, HollywoodReporter, 11 May 2026
  • That has long since fallen from the ears of the mass public, of the mainstream.
    — Alan Hernández Pastén, SPIN, 2 Mar. 2023
  • The sudden death of someone who was so new to the mainstream was of course a shock.
    — Paul Grein, Billboard, 20 Sep. 2023
  • Trans women who do try to make it by playing to the mainstream are shut out, too.
    — Frankie De La Cretaz, Them, 10 Oct. 2024
  • Trap was heavy, trap music was super heavy in the clubs; the mainstream clubs.
    — Okla Jones, Essence, 28 Oct. 2023
  • At present, few Black artists rise to the mainstream charts’ highest spots.
    — Danielle Amir Jackson Malike Sidibe, New York Times, 11 Oct. 2023
  • Over the past few years, ’90s style has returned to the mainstream.
    — Madeleine Aggeler, New York Times, 31 Mar. 2023
  • Those are starting to creep into the mainstream.
    — Victoria Gomelsky, Robb Report, 5 Jan. 2026
  • While those might be outliers, the mainstream is growing.
    — Beth Livesay, AJC.com, 26 June 2026
  • They’re now regarded as part of the mainstream.
    — Damon Wise, Deadline, 29 Oct. 2025
  • Asian singers were largely absent from the mainstream.
    — Margaret Heidenry, Vanity Fair, 24 Feb. 2026
  • Off the Chain Chain bags have moved in and out of the mainstream over the years.
    — Alice Cary, Vogue, 16 Dec. 2025
  • Trump’s pitch came at a time when mixed martial arts had fought its way into the mainstream.
    — Zac Anderson, USA Today, 12 June 2026
  • But there is no space for Black women like me in the mainstream markets.
    — Cerys Davies, Los Angeles Times, 16 July 2024
  • Yet in recent years, the mainstream seems to be catching up to Owens.
    — Nick Haramis Ola Rindal Dogukan Nesanir, New York Times, 16 Feb. 2024
  • How a fringe claim about immigrants eating pets made it to the mainstream.
    — Elizabeth Robinson, NBC News, 13 Sep. 2024
  • Suddenly, Carey had stepped out of the mainstream and was now cool.
    — Cliff Joannou, Rolling Stone, 27 July 2023
  • The movement clearly strikes a chord with young men where the mainstream loses them.
    — Preeti Kulkarni, Baltimore Sun, 14 Aug. 2025
  • To embrace the split toe is to consciously buck the mainstream.
    — Amy X. Wang, New York Times, 26 Sep. 2023
  • As ever, trends are being set by those with the vision to break away from the mainstream.
    — Jill Newman, Robb Report, 18 Nov. 2023
  • So, what happens when a beloved cult brand begins to hit the mainstream zeitgeist?
    — Kerensa Cadenas, ELLE, 10 Aug. 2023
  • Here’s a look back at the events that pushed denim into the mainstream news cycle.
    — Angela Velasquez, Sourcing Journal, 22 Dec. 2025

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