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How to use subgenre in a sentence

14 example sentences · noun

Subgenre means one of several categories within a particular genre. Example: “You have to give director Colm McCarthy, a Scottish TV veteran making his feature film debut, and writer Mike Carey, adapting his own novel, credit for attempting the seemingly impossible task of doing something new with the zombie subgenre.”

Examples of subgenre by meaning

nounOne of several categories within a particular genre.

  • You have to give director Colm McCarthy, a Scottish TV veteran making his feature film debut, and writer Mike Carey, adapting his own novel, credit for attempting the seemingly impossible task of doing something new with the zombie subgenre.2017 February 23, Katie Rife, “The Girl With All The Gifts tries to put a fresh spin on overripe zombie clichés”, in The Onion AV Club...
  • Black metal is a subgenre of heavy metal music that typically takes on anti-Christian, satanic and pagan themes.2019 April 12, Paul P. Murphy and Samira Said, “Louisiana arson suspect expressed disgust with Baptist churches on Facebook”, in CNN

More sentences with subgenre

  • In Melville’s era, the “L’Envoi” was considered a distinct poetic subgenre.2023, Cody Marrs, Melville, Beauty, and American Literary Studies: An Aesthetics in All Things, Oxford, Oxon: Oxford University Press…. From the entry l'envoi
  • Do you know about the subgenre of Tegan and Sara fan fiction called quincest?2020, M./Megan Milks, “The Strands”, in Foglifter, volume 4, number 2, page 11. From the entry Quincest
  • "Snarry is part of a subgenre of fan fiction called Slash," she says.2009 July 17, David Templeton, “One geek over the line”, in Pacific Sun. From the entry Snarry
  • Modern industrial music subgenres and fusion-genres include EBM, futurepop, power-noise, aggrotech (terror-EBM), coldwave, elektro, dark-electro, and industrial-metal.2007, Raven Digitalis, Goth Craft: The Magickal Side of Dark Culture, page 37. From the entry EBM
  • The aesthetics and subgenres of taste in that era spanned beyond the world of indie music and soft grunge.2021 October 13, Sadhbh O'Sullivan, “Welcome To The Age Of Newstalgia”, in Refinery29, archived from the original on 09 Jun 2023. From the entry soft grunge
  • Suicide Commando, Combichrist), and a number of other subgenres.2015, Isabella van Elferen, Jeffrey Andrew Weinstock, Goth Music: From Sound to Subculture. From the entry futurepop
  • The Black New World Order may be a niche subgenre, making it easy to discredit as evidence of a larger phenomenon, its implications are far-reaching.2025 January 30, Laura-Ashley Modunkwu, “Welcome to the Black New World Order”, in Candour (blogpost), archived from the original on 24…. From the entry black new world order
  • In metalcore subgenres, bass drops are often utilized under the first chord of a breakdown, to emphasize the breakdown and give it a presence.2016, CTI Reviews, Photography, A Cultural History, →ISBN. From the entry bass drop
  • We’re Open is categorised as mallsoft, the vaporwave subgenre which evokes the sounds and atmosphere of shopping malls, and which obliquely references their current, precarious state.2021, Roisin Kiberd, The Disconnect: A Personal Journey Through the Internet, Serpent’s Tail, →ISBN. From the entry mallsoft
  • As at the previous edition, the event will have six stages featuring diverse music styles: techno, psychedelic, deep house, jazz, ambient, live bands, cumbia, psychill and many other subgenres.2017 July 12, “Music festival kicks off in scenic Romania village”, in Romania Insider. From the entry psychill
  • From techno, psychedelic, deep house, jazz, ambient, live bands, cumbia, psychill and many other subgenres only the DJs know, relaxation and zen are in order here.2016 June 19, Oana Vasiliu, “Top festivals in Romania to check out in July”, in (Romania) Business Review. From the entry psychill
  • The recent development of a distinct subgenre of autobiography, the culinary memoir, is another indication that women’s food-writing is increasingly perceived and cast within more formal, literary conventions.2003, Tamar Heller, Patricia Moran, “Introduction: Scenes of the Apple: Appetite, Desire, Writing”, in Tamar Heller, Patricia Moran…. From the entry food-writing

Meaning of subgenre

  1. noun One of several categories within a particular genre.

Full definition of subgenre

Questions about subgenre in a sentence

How do you use subgenre in a sentence?
Subgenre is used as a noun. For example: “You have to give director Colm McCarthy, a Scottish TV veteran making his feature film debut, and writer Mike Carey, adapting his own novel, credit for attempting the seemingly impossible task of doing something new with the zombie subgenre.”
What is a short sentence with subgenre?
“Suicide Commando, Combichrist), and a number of other subgenres.”
What does subgenre mean?
Subgenre means one of several categories within a particular genre.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: subgenre (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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