Example Sentences

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The guys realize they’re in a different era primarily through shifts in 21st-century culture: Bill Cosby is beloved, cinema audiences laugh freely at gay jokes, teenage goths stalk the streets of Toronto.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 12, 2026

For my fellow covert goths, may I recommend Ela Minus?

From Salon • Jun. 28, 2025

I often have visions of these characters in this rain-drenched, neon-lit city where there are proto goths hanging on street corners looking for something to do.

From BBC • Feb. 22, 2025

No matter where you found yourself during Block Party — ducking into Big Mario’s for a slice and some shade, or rocking with the goths in the bowels of Barboza — the music kept playing.

From Seattle Times • Jul. 24, 2023

Weird beyond the interesting weirdness of the punks and the goths and the mods who were wearing their subcultures like political affiliations as they strolled by the shops.

From Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town by Doctorow, Cory