How to Use beatnik in a Sentence

beatnik

noun
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  • There’s a touch of the beatnik and a touch of the hippie here.
    — Brian T. Allen, National Review, 29 Feb. 2020
  • On your right is the way out pad of the beatnik-hippie Grateful Dead.
    — Marin Independent Journal, The Mercury News, 11 Feb. 2017
  • The ecstatic transport here was as much to Fluxus as to the San Francisco beatnik clubs of the 1950s.
    — Los Angeles Times, 8 Sep. 2019
  • Golden State’s floor leader, Curry, exudes the vibes of a beatnik, not a brawler.
    — Karen Crouse, New York Times, 11 Feb. 2016
  • This month’s events in the city encompass everything from the Castro Street Fair to the week-long Litquake, a chance to indulge your inner beatnik.
    — Mark Ellwood, CNT, 5 Sep. 2017
  • According to his son, Crump was a beatnik with a reputation as a rebel among the Disney fold.
    — Todd Martens, Los Angeles Times, 13 Mar. 2023
  • But that generation-defining gesture isn’t just the stale move of a 1950s beatnik.
    — New York Times, 24 Feb. 2020
  • Perhaps in response the free surfer has turned ever more scraggly-haired, more rambling beatnik.
    — Jamie Brisick, The New Yorker, 26 Aug. 2019
  • Everybody in the audience wants to see the English guitar band, and here's this kind of beatnik-looking guy from New Jersey.
    — Sam Gillette, Peoplemag, 23 Sep. 2022
  • Also, the Cool Post Office was founded in 1885, so Todd must have either been a very forward-thinking beatnik, or a time-traveling one.
    — Ken Jennings, Condé Nast Traveler, 28 May 2018
  • The chances of finding a springbok in the National Museum were about as strong as finding a beatnik on a bog road between Balleybofey and Lifford.
    — Paul Muldoon, The New Yorker, 4 Oct. 2021
  • Crump was known for his eccentric beatnik style and pop art approach, which was evident in his personal art projects, such as a series of posters celebrating drugs.
    — Pat Saperstein, Variety, 13 Mar. 2023
  • These beatnik businessmen were precursors to the libertarians who turned broadly toward the counterculture in the 1960s.
    — Jeet Heer, New Republic, 15 Feb. 2018
  • Few can actually wear one on a regular basis without looking like a pretentious beatnik.
    — Julie Ma, The Cut, 1 Mar. 2018
  • Stand-up partially originated in the Village in the 1950s, in coffeehouses where folk musicians and beatnik poets entertained too.
    — Cnt Editors, Condé Nast Traveler, 14 Apr. 2020
  • Also: beatnik intellectuals, art-world galleristi, emo teens and Benedictine monks.
    — Kareem Rashed, Robb Report, 18 Sep. 2022

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