How to Use zine in a Sentence

zine

noun
  • Novels are not zines, of course.
    — Literary Hub, 23 Apr. 2026
  • And then wrote about these travels in my zine.
    — Literary Hub, 23 Apr. 2026
  • The box turned out to be full of more zines and an old love letter.
    — Rachel Monroe, New Yorker, 26 Mar. 2026
  • First, try your hand at your own zine with the help of local artists.
    — Chris Kelly, Washington Post, 20 July 2023
  • That exchange now forms the basis of a zine by the two artists.
    — Maximilíano Durón, ARTnews.com, 8 May 2026
  • By the nineties, punk zines had been around long enough to be taken for granted.
    — Literary Hub, 23 Apr. 2026
  • After the talk, Turnstile hung out with fans and signed zines.
    — Pitchfork, 6 June 2025
  • Vivian starts an anonymous zine that calls out her school's sexism.
    — Leah Campano, Seventeen, 17 Mar. 2023
  • Anyone can go in there and buy a $5 zine or not buy anything; go in there and look around.
    — Max Bell, Los Angeles Times, 5 Aug. 2021
  • How zines taught Jeff Miller to be a novelist.
    — Literary Hub, 23 Apr. 2026
  • How zines taught Jeff Miller to be a novelist.
    — Literary Hub, 25 Apr. 2026
  • Campers could learn how to make a ‘zine, and Vale and Dorsey taught them how to write a song.
    — Karla Peterson Columnist, San Diego Union-Tribune, 17 Oct. 2020
  • This issue of our zine seeks to uplift those at the center of these movements.
    — Shelby Comroe, Marie Claire, 23 Mar. 2021
  • Each ticket includes a free copy of the Oklou zine.
    — Pitchfork, 7 Oct. 2025
  • Tickets include a free copy of the Oklou zine.
    — Pitchfork, 1 Oct. 2025
  • The team will be offering merch that includes tote bags, spices, sweatshirts, aprons and zines.
    — Los Angeles Times, 15 Apr. 2026
  • Every Swiftie worth their salt knows the pop star’s mythology like the back of one of her zines.
    — Ashley Hoffman, Time, 12 Jan. 2018
  • The walls are warm orange with a nook by the door for records, books and zines, plants above the bar and art down the back hallway.
    — Eva Flowe june 27, Charlotte Observer, 27 June 2026
  • That was the dynamic that fueled the hacker zines, in which the owners got owned.
    — Amanda Hess, New York Times, 28 Mar. 2017
  • Tim was all about the zine and people writing and doing their scene reports and record reviews.
    — Brady Gerber, Vulture, 19 Jan. 2024
  • Club members have learned how to decorate pastries, sew, crotchet and start a zine.
    — Arit John, Los Angeles Times, 29 Apr. 2021
  • Look inside an iconic comics and zine festival in Rome.
    — Literary Hub, 16 Aug. 2025
  • One zine title might be eight issues long; another might be a single issue.
    — Rachel Schneider, The Conversation, 17 June 2026
  • The group met secretly at first, and then opened up their ceremonies to the public and published two zines.
    — Liana Satenstein, Vogue, 21 June 2017
  • Come back in the evening for the store’s summer zine reading, featuring an open-mic approach with area creators.
    — Chris Kelly, Washington Post, 20 July 2023
  • In those brownstones, the icons scribbled about notepads and surrendered those eternal drafts to thin paper zines.
    — Literary Hub, 28 Jan. 2026
  • Reading those zines gave me the courage to jot down observations of my own world, which—as a teenager—was pretty small.
    — Literary Hub, 23 Apr. 2026
  • Over the years, his false theory spread through talk radio, zines, books, and gun shows in the era before social media.
    — Olivia B. Waxman, TIME, 12 July 2024
  • Each zine was part of this larger project, a communal push to create a scrappy literary scene of our own.
    — Literary Hub, 23 Apr. 2026
  • When my zine ballooned to over one hundred pages, my stapler refused to bind them, only leaving teeth marks on the cover.
    — Literary Hub, 23 Apr. 2026

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