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"Genre" in a Sentence (15 examples)
I think style and genre are less important factors in making us like music than the individual artist's skills in arrangement and playing of the instrument.
This singer's genre of music is electronic.
One can never be too young or too old to enjoy a certain genre of music.
My favourite genre of music is pop.
This story belongs clearly to no genre.
Figures of speech are tools well employed by writers in any literary genre.
My brother listens to a music genre called ambient.
"The Castle of Otranto" is the first gothic novel in English, and it set the standards of the whole genre.
The historical novel was a very popular genre.
Although critics have sometimes dismissed genre fiction as escapist, poorly written and full of clichés, some writers — such as Jules Verne, H.G. Wells, Mary Shelley and Edgar Allan Poe — have transcended the genres of science fiction or of horror to craft classic works of literature.
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The still life has been a popular genre in painting since the 17th century.
This film is a cross-genre piece, dark and funny at the same time.
The computer game Half-Life redefined the first-person shooter genre.
One of the difficulties that plague conversations about industrial music is that the genre has come to include (to the chagrin and outright denial of some purists) anything from gentle synthesized droning to metal-inspired riffage.
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