How to use steampunk in a sentence
13 example sentences · noun, verb
Steampunk means a subgenre of science fiction that depicts advanced technology combined with Victorian style and aesthetics, such as steam-powered machines and vehicles, visible gears and screws and people dressed in 19th-century attires. Example: “I prefer aetherpunk over steampunk any day of the week.”
Examples of steampunk by meaning
nounA subgenre of science fiction that depicts advanced technology combined with Victorian style and aesthetics, such as...
- Lovers of steampunk will find it especially pleasing.2021 November 3, Dr Joseph Brennan, “Boxes with functions across the centuries”, in RAIL, number 943, page 57
nounA person cosplaying as a steampunk character.
- It wound up being an overwhelmingly positive experience that made me appreciate the steampunks around me even more.2009 September, Klaude Davenport, “An interview with Emmett and Klaude Davenport of the Clockwork Cabaret”, in Exhibition Hall, number 1...
verbTo depict in a steampunk manner.
- Some steampunks will take a favorite character, such as Boba Fett, Alice, Dorothy, Professor Snape, or Sherlock Holmes, and “steampunk” him or her out by adding elements of leather (or faux leather), gears, clock parts, electricity, motors, and so on.2012, Sybil Fogg, “Mechomancy: Steampunk Sensibilities in Pagan Traditions”, in Llewellyn's 2013 Magical Almanac: Practical Magic for...
More sentences with steampunk
- I prefer aetherpunk over steampunk any day of the week.From the entry aetherpunk
- Alexander has written a number of steampunk short stories, children’s science-learning books, and a full-length elfpunk novel.2015, “About The Author”, in Claudia Alexander, Which of the Mountains Is Greatest of All? (Windows to Adventure; 1), Red Phoenix Books…. From the entry elfpunk
- Any style of music can become steampunk if the story is right.2013, Julie Anne Taddeo, Cynthia J. Miller, Steaming into a Victorian Future, page 90. From the entry chap-hop
- Thus the rise of a seemingly incongruous pairing: steampunk rap, or chap-hop.2013, Julie Anne Taddeo, Cynthia J. Miller, Steaming into a Victorian Future, page 90. From the entry chap-hop
- Fogg's house on savile Row is a steampunk paradise of newfanglement.2013, Joyce E. Chaplin, Round About the Earth: Circumnavigation from Magellan to Orbit. From the entry newfanglement
- In steampunk all the myths and miracles of the East that enchanted the Victorians can come true.2012, Shira Tarrant, Marjorie Jolles, Fashion Talks: Undressing the Power of Style, page 197. From the entry Victoriental
- Then, having driven through a high-security gate, you’re surrounded by towering chimneys, pipework, chugging cooling plants, everything dressed in steampunk.December 15 2022, Samanth Subramanian, “Dismantling Sellafield: the epic task of shutting down a nuclear site”, in The Guardian. From the entry cooling plant
- Watson-ish waistcoats slung with chains heavy enough to pull the Queen Mary to port—it all fits the steampunk aesthetic.2013, K[evin] W[ayne] Jeter, “Foreword”, in Katherine Gleason, Anatomy of Steampunk: The Fashion of Victorian Futurism, Race Point…. From the entry Dr. Watson-ish
- In other words, steampunk explores adjustment to an industrial culture from the opposite direction to cyberpunk -- but has very much the same agenda.2002 November 20, Charlie Stross, “Re: What "steampunk" genre?”, in rec.arts.sf.written (Usenet). From the entry dieselpunk
- Steampunk Musha is an alternative setting for the Iron Gauntlets Roleplaying Game that features a Victoriental feudal land, torn between honoring the old traditions and embracing new technologies.2006, Alana Abbott, Brett M. Bernstein, Rick Hershey, Steampunk Musha: An Alternative Game Setting for Iron Gauntlets. From the entry Victoriental
Meaning of steampunk
- noun A subgenre of science fiction that depicts advanced technology combined with Victorian style and aesthetics, such as steam-powered machines and vehicles, visible gears and screws and people dressed in 19th-century attires.
- noun A writer of steampunk fiction.
- noun A person cosplaying as a steampunk character.
Questions about steampunk in a sentence
- How do you use steampunk in a sentence?
- Steampunk is used as a noun and verb. For example: “I prefer aetherpunk over steampunk any day of the week.”
- What is a short sentence with steampunk?
- “Lovers of steampunk will find it especially pleasing.”
- What does steampunk mean?
- Steampunk means a subgenre of science fiction that depicts advanced technology combined with Victorian style and aesthetics, such as steam-powered machines and vehicles, visible gears and screws and people dressed in 19th-century attires.
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Adapted from Wiktionary: steampunk (page history and authors) and the entries each sentence comes from. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws chose the sentences, left out offensive ones and quotations older than 1900, and marked the word in each. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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