How to Use dubstep in a Sentence

dubstep

noun
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  • The rest of the list spans techno, hardstyle, disco, dubstep and more.
    — Katie Bain, Billboard, 24 Feb. 2023
  • Uz and Buz, and the editing from Cooper Peltz gets the names bumping with dubstep and the Survivor theme song.
    — Pablo Goldstein, Vulture, 7 Oct. 2021
  • This trailer seems to suggest that the Paramount+ revival will be less hip-hop and more dubstep.
    — Bethy Squires, Vulture, 5 May 2021
  • But on the flip side there’s junglist hip-hop from Ming & FS that helped pave the way for new breakbeat/dubstep artists today.
    — Katie Bain, Billboard, 25 Aug. 2020
  • To be honest, there's not a lot of dubstep labels left—not ones that are focused on dubstep.
    — Lisa Kocay, Forbes, 31 July 2022
  • Los Angeles is one city where the dubstep dream never dies.
    — Kat Bein, Billboard, 19 Jan. 2018
  • Mellody, who adopted the name Zomboy from a video game, quickly became one of the most famous dubstep artists in the world.
    — Allison Stewart, chicagotribune.com, 19 July 2017
  • About a decade ago, pop music seemed to thicken and slow thanks to the influence of trap, dubstep, and chill-out playlists on streaming platforms.
    — Spencer Kornhaber, The Atlantic, 4 Mar. 2023
  • Difficult-to-place samples echo back to late aughts post-dubstep sonic cues.
    — chicagotribune.com, 22 June 2017
  • In the minute-long video, Kaepernick is seen working out using free weights and exercise machines as a dubstep-style track plays.
    — Tre'vaughn Howard, CBS News, 9 Aug. 2019
  • There have been genres created from this sound, like dubstep.
    — Katie Bain, Billboard, 1 Oct. 2021
  • This song is the first time Swift introduced dubstep to her sound, a stark contrast from her previous country-pop style.
    — Maggie Horton, Country Living, 2 Aug. 2022
  • That [chart position] is crazy to me, because there’s a full on headbanging dubstep section in this, so that’s cool.
    — Katie Bain, Billboard, 16 July 2021
  • The big man threw down a bass-heavy dubstep set, and made liberal use of Mémoire’s laser light system, 450-inch LED wall, and overhead fog cannons.
    — Kevin Slane, BostonGlobe.com, 28 June 2019
  • In 2018, Shaq traded in basketballs for bass drops and reemerged as DJ Diesel -- a bone-crushing dubstep producer with friends in high places.
    — Billboard Staff, Billboard, 17 Dec. 2019
  • In my opinion trap music in the past 5 years was hijacked by dubstep and bass and now are almost interchangeable.
    — Spin Staff, SPIN, 10 June 2022
  • Barker strapped in and jammed out to trap-dubstep cacophony for four minutes.
    — Chris Kelly, Washington Post, 12 July 2019
  • This year’s special guest is Sluggo, a dubstep DJ and music producer from Phoenix.
    — Alaska Dispatch News, 27 Oct. 2017
  • More than one waltz was derailed by disruptive outbursts of dubstep.
    — Michael Andor Brodeur, Washington Post, 22 Sep. 2023
  • The first part of the set moves through bass-heavy tracks with a dubstep undercurrent, with glowing chords occasionally cutting through the gloom.
    — Philip Sherburne, Pitchfork, 22 Aug. 2023
  • The taste-making star DJ and producer fuses hip-hop, dubstep, house, rock, and more to create a rattling style that will likely have the Pavilion quaking.
    — Justin Jacobs, Indianapolis Star, 1 Feb. 2018
  • Mr. Blake came out of English dubstep in 2009, and moved quickly toward a slow and lonely model of voice-keyboard-and-laptop songwriting.
    — Ben Ratliff, New York Times, 8 May 2016
  • In the hands of young Black British producers smitten by Chicago drill but raised on a diet of grime, dubstep, and other dance music, drill’s open space offered room for other rhythms to hop aboard.
    — Wayne Marshall, Vulture, 17 Aug. 2022
  • Altogether, this fleet of artists played thousands of tracks spanning house, techno, dance-pop, dubstep, hardstyle, EDM, trance, tech house and beyond.
    — Katie Bain, Billboard, 3 June 2022
  • The song combines riddim elements with classic country sounds — a genre rarely seen in the dance/dubstep community.
    — Xander Zellner, Billboard, 22 Feb. 2024
  • Come for the tropical house beat, be surprised by the multiple dubstep dance breaks, and leave ready to cut your own fancam of vocalist Nayeon going into a flawless vocal riff at the end of the bridge.
    — Alex Suskind, EW.com, 5 June 2020
  • Restaurants and shopping malls resounded with a cacophony of competing jingles: a snatch of hip hop here, a blast of dubstep there.
    — Saskia Solomon, The Economist, 17 Feb. 2021
  • YouTube commenters are describing the sound as a broken NES, dubstep and, my personal favorite, a dial-up modem.
    — Lauren Sigfusson, Discover Magazine, 27 Mar. 2018
  • At a stoplight, another cyclist, with a speaker blasting dubstep, pulled up.
    — Adam Iscoe, The New Yorker, 20 Sep. 2021
  • Shaquille O'Neal announced the release date for his debut dubstep album in the silliest way possible on Wednesday.
    — Natasha Dye, Peoplemag, 10 Aug. 2023

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