How to Use genre in a Sentence
genre
noun
- This book is a classic of the mystery genre.
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The new film is a shot in the arm for a moribund genre.
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Michael O'Sullivan,
Washington Post,
8 Jan. 2024
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Looking at the top-grossers of the genre ... not so much.
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Michael Ordoña,
Los Angeles Times,
2 Oct. 2023
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To know the man is to know the show is to know the very beginnings of the genre.
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Shinan Govani,
Town & Country,
22 Feb. 2023
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For the actor, part of the problem lies with the film’s genre.
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Mike Miller,
PEOPLE.com,
9 Apr. 2018
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This isn't the first time the singer has paid homage to the genre with his covers.
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Sara Delgado,
Teen Vogue,
20 Nov. 2018
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But at least one landmark of the genre should be spared the scorn.
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The Economist,
27 June 2020
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Take a trip through time and genres from the Baroque era to the Jazz Age.
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John Coffren,
Baltimore Sun,
3 Aug. 2023
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Then there's great genre stuff and tons of stuff in the pipeline.
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Lesley Goldberg,
The Hollywood Reporter,
11 June 2018
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The emotions paired with the genre are hard to describe.
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Katie Bain,
Billboard,
6 Aug. 2020
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In the grand scope of things, the genre is still young and has much more to offer.
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Kerane Marcellus,
Essence,
10 July 2023
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The last few months have been historic for the rap genre.
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Mankaprr Conteh,
Rolling Stone,
10 May 2024
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The latest entrant in the genre, though, comes with a twist.
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Brian Barrett,
WIRED,
10 July 2018
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Hilderbrand’s joke was tame by the standards of the genre.
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Kyle Smith,
National Review,
13 June 2021
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All helped in the rise of an entire genre of neato scary movies.
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Brian Truitt,
USA TODAY,
6 Sep. 2019
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The genre was sort of at a low ebb in the seventies and eighties.
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Adam Nayman,
The New Yorker,
28 Aug. 2022
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So what was the other genre that got mixed up with Mozart?
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Rob Hubbard,
Twin Cities,
17 Aug. 2019
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There’s so much more to the genre than bodice-ripping, though that’s a steamy part of it.
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Myisha Battle,
TIME,
2 Aug. 2024
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Among the hundreds of lyrics that have been in this genre, there’s one song that stands out from the rest.
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Heather Finn,
Good Housekeeping,
10 Aug. 2020
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Even though the studio is new to the mobile space, their genre of games isn’t.
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Washington Post,
30 Apr. 2021
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The act, on its own, is an entire genre of dumb YouTube videos.
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Si.com Staff,
SI.com,
11 June 2018
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Books in the emerging genre sold 11 million copies in the first five months of this year.
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Prarthana Prakash,
Fortune,
8 July 2024
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Some guys are already catching on to the joys of the romance genre.
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Emily Bond,
menshealth.com,
19 Apr. 2023
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In the genre of princesses and dragons, Milne makes his own way.
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Sarah Schutte,
National Review,
11 Apr. 2021
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The quest for those answers is often part of the genre’s appeal.
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Patti Greco,
Health.com,
29 Oct. 2020
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Costner knocks it out of the park once again in a genre for which he was clearly born.
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Ben Flanagan | Bflanagan@al.com,
al,
10 Aug. 2020
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The idea of genre as a space to express these things was intrinsic.
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Emma Grey Ellis,
Wired,
4 July 2020
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There have been a lot of great films in both genres, but few can lay a glove on this one.
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Brian Lowry,
CNN,
9 July 2019
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Murakami masterfully blends genres and themes in this dark sci-fi coming-of-age story.
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Theara Coleman,
theweek,
6 Nov. 2024
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Being a music historian, [my colleagues and I] talk a lot about that in African American music, no genre is completely new.
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Chris Klimek,
Smithsonian Magazine,
4 Nov. 2024
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