How to Use hard rock in a Sentence

hard rock

noun
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  • Yeah Yeahs, and the pounding hard rock of Queens of the Stone Age.
    — Dave Brooks, Billboard, 10 Jan. 2023
  • On April 28, the drilling crew hit an area of hard rock and the drill pipe snapped.
    — oregonlive, 1 Sep. 2020
  • Suzanne came with her 18-year-old daughter, who is a fan of the hard rock group.
    — Andrew Darosa, Connecticut Post, 30 Sep. 2024
  • Leading the way on both counts was lead singer, David Lee Roth, the clown prince of hard rock.
    — The Enquirer, 7 Oct. 2020
  • There are legends in the world of hard rock, and then there’s Ozzy Osbourne.
    — Josh Chesler, SPIN, 12 Dec. 2023
  • The band tore through more than two hours of hard rock, left the stage, returned for the encore and left again.
    — Travis M. Andrews, Washington Post, 15 Nov. 2022
  • The tour hits Intuit Dome Sept. 13-14 (the first hard rock shows in the shiny new arena).
    — August Brown, Los Angeles Times, 11 Sep. 2024
  • Linkin Park is far and away one of the most successful hard rock bands of all time.
    — Hugh McIntyre, Forbes, 14 Feb. 2024
  • But hold the hard rock — there's no need to get super intense.
    — Elizabeth Narins, Cosmopolitan, 16 Oct. 2015
  • The album is soulful mix of hip-hop, hard rock, neo-soul, and, of course, pure pop.
    — Brittany Spanos, Rolling Stone, 22 Oct. 2022
  • As essential to the genre as a power chord is to hard rock.
    — Los Angeles Times, 20 June 2022
  • But this one is mostly for the first pumping hard rock lovers.
    — cleveland, 17 Jan. 2023
  • What’s that like to be the only guitar on stage for a hard rock band like The Warning?
    — Spin Contributor, SPIN, 4 Sep. 2024
  • He’s been with the hard rock band since 1978, and plays drums with the use of electronic pedals.
    — Victoria Ballard, Sun Sentinel, 16 Mar. 2023
  • Ronnie James Dio and Ian Gillan are two of the most beloved singers in the history of hard rock.
    — Andy Greene, Rolling Stone, 22 Apr. 2023
  • Confidence is a big hard rock that's not easy to get rolling.
    — Adam Baum, Cincinnati.com, 26 Nov. 2019
  • Van Halen were the new kings, soon to inspire the next wave of successful hard rock bands.
    — Matt Wake | [email protected], al, 27 Feb. 2023
  • The hard rock band blends post-grunge licks with southern styled ballads.
    — Brandon Moeller, Houston Chronicle, 4 Aug. 2020
  • And weak rocks break down to mud faster than hard rocks, so sand tends to be made of the harder types that break down slowly.
    — David R. Montgomery, Discover Magazine, 12 July 2024
  • This molten rock begins to melt the rock above it, and that melted rock, less dense than the hard rock around it, rises.
    — Jennifer Leman, Popular Mechanics, 18 Nov. 2019
  • Considered one of the greatest hard rock songs of all time, this song plays when Thor and the Guardians of the Galaxy have joined forces.
    — Jazz Tangcay, Variety, 8 July 2022
  • Then, on April 28, the drilling crew hit an unexpected area of hard rock.
    — oregonlive, 13 Aug. 2020
  • Ford is known as one of the members of the groundbreaking all-women punk and hard rock group The Runaways.
    — cleveland, 13 July 2023
  • He was drawn to nu-metal and hard rock as well as rap, and tried to teach himself how to play the guitar and the piano.
    — Corinna Burford, Vulture, 9 June 2022
  • He was loved for his melodic hard rock, nasally vocals and down-to-earth style.
    — Bloomberg.com, 20 Jan. 2018
  • Does their success — and Hardy’s pivot to hard rock — spell the looming end of bro-country?
    — Los Angeles Times, 16 Feb. 2023
  • The idea was to crack the hard rock formations around the well and stimulate the release of oil or gas trapped within.
    — Rebecca Maitland, Houston Chronicle, 15 Feb. 2018
  • For nearly 50 years, Cooper and the band bearing that name is one of the iconic figures in hard rock.
    — Al Shipley, SPIN, 9 June 2023
  • Some of the biggest hard rock bands sanded down their edges a little and invaded top 40 in the process.
    — Billboard Staff, Billboard, 5 Apr. 2021
  • As that hard rock cut continues to overperform, the group is moving on—at least in part—to another tune.
    — Hugh McIntyre, Forbes, 24 Sep. 2024

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