How to Use mosh in a Sentence

mosh

verb
Definition of moshnext
  • The median age of the fans moshing near the front of the stage seems to be about 20.
    — Andy Greene, Rolling Stone, 17 Oct. 2023
  • For the first time, the air-conditioning was not enough to stifle the heat rising from the moshing fans.
    — Jessi Roti, chicagotribune.com, 21 July 2019
  • Linkin Park’s product was male rage in a form the entire family could mosh to.
    — Spencer Kornhaber, The Atlantic, 25 June 2018
  • My son slammed into the pit, happy to mosh without getting soaked in spilled beer.
    — Petula Dvorak, Washington Post, 8 June 2023
  • But while those in ancient Athens were round and freestanding, this one was flattened out and moshed up against a wall.
    — Ron Grossman, chicagotribune.com, 19 July 2019
  • And then some of the real hardcore people stepped out and were out there circle-pitting and moshing and stuff.
    — Steve Appleford, SPIN, 20 Apr. 2023
  • Regardless, fans didn't hold back on the floor, moshing, bouncing and, for some, even ripping cattails out of the ground to wave to the music.
    — Charles Trepany, USA TODAY, 19 Oct. 2019
  • Go ahead and mosh around to this beastly drop and forget your relationship woes.
    — Kat Bein, Billboard, 4 May 2018
  • The Chicago native even moshed with the crowd shirtless at one point, before asking for someone to bring the 22-year-old a water bottle to the stage.
    — Michael Saponara, Billboard, 14 Dec. 2017
  • Many party-goers dressed the part in natty rugby shirts and penny loafers with socks—and even more could be seen moshing in them.
    — Maria Ward, Vogue, 6 Sep. 2023
  • Somehow, everyone moshed and sang along, a small miracle given the weight of those words.
    — August Brown, latimes.com, 21 Feb. 2018
  • But over the hill, the grimier world of Hollywood is home to her soon-to-be boyfriend Randy (Josh Whitehouse), whose pierced and tatted pals prefer moshing at punk shows.
    — Natalia Winkelman, New York Times, 8 May 2020
  • The crowd turned into a living wave, moshing and crashing into each other as strobes and pink and green lights washed over everyone.
    — Jordan Moreau, Variety, 20 Apr. 2023
  • The band’s lead singer shouted the same profane line, before delving into a hardcore song that sent patrons moshing through the diner.
    — Lizzy Rosenberg, Peoplemag, 31 Oct. 2023
  • The gory attire has become a sort of uniform among his devoted fanbase, who scream-sing and mosh wildly at each of the rapper’s heart-pounding concerts.
    — Richard Villegas, Rolling Stone, 11 Apr. 2023
  • Teens joyously mosh and throw up metal horns while brandishing the colorful Amazigh flag.
    — Teen Vogue, 7 Oct. 2019
  • Two days later, the group took to Dr. Martens stage, where their high-energy performance compelled attendees to mosh (yes, as in Warped Tour-style moshing) and body roll, all in one set.
    — Gabrielle Nicole Pharms, Rolling Stone, 18 Mar. 2023
  • Two days later, the group took to Dr. Martens stage, where their high-energy performance compelled attendees to mosh (yes, as in Warped Tour-style moshing) and body roll, all in one set.
    — Gabrielle Nicole Pharms, Rolling Stone, 18 Mar. 2023
  • Before the day was over, Knocked Loose erupted on Coachella’s nightclub-sized Sonora stage, as the crowd reacted with the usual shouting, moshing, and stage-diving found at a hardcore show.
    — Steve Appleford, SPIN, 20 Apr. 2023
  • Couples, who make their own jewelry out of crystals, hang out in between tall trees while teens mosh to Rico Nasty, and girls in matching neon minidresses chatter off on the left-hand side of one of the festival’s three stages.
    — Adam Jason Cohen, Vogue, 24 July 2019
  • The audience cheered like mad for everyone, waving things, crowd-surfing, messing with cops, moshing under swirling colored lights.
    — Sarah Larson, The New Yorker, 12 Feb. 2020
  • Concertgoers were crowd-surfing, moshing, putting camera phones away — partly to protect them from getting dropped and trampled, partly to rage harder in real time.
    — Ashley Fetters Maloy, Washington Post, 8 June 2023
  • My teenage years were spent moshing to alternative music at live venues in the DC punk scene, vigorously honing my artistic skills, and reading everything Robert Heinlein ever wrote.
    — Brigid Ashwood, WIRED, 11 Oct. 2010
  • While the majority of Forecastle's performers attract youthful festival heads to mosh pits and head banging, Preservation Hall's crowd was a melting pot of ages, musical tastes and fashions.
    — Thomas Novelly, The Courier-Journal, 16 July 2017

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