[ US /ˈʒɑnɹə/ ]
[ UK /ʒˈɒnɹɐ/ ]
NOUN
  1. a style of expressing yourself in writing
  2. an expressive style of music
  3. a class of art (or artistic endeavor) having a characteristic form or technique
  4. a kind of literary or artistic work
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How To Use genre In A Sentence

  • I record my favourite songs onto blank tapes to play in the car and I normally do them by mood or genre.
  • It was followed by Crime, where plot and suspense were king, and those often sidelined as "genre fiction" — Crichton, King or Rendell — were given credit for their craft.
  • As a result, instead of the clean visuals that typify the science fiction genre, we see lens flares, shaky handheld cameras, zooms, and sloppy rack focuses even in CGI shots.
  • “Yes, of course, the whole idea is utterly inane, but to let its predictable inanities blind you to its truly fabulous and breathtaking aspects is to do both oneself and the genre a disservice.” — The Codex Continual. Official Website of Steven E. Schend
  • Trash and harrowingly low budgets are the point of a Versus movie, as the genre's pioneers well knew back when they were churning out Abbott And Costello Meet Frankenstein/The Invisible Man/The Mummy. Cowboys & Aliens: the Versus movie without Versus in its name
  • You know how sometimes SF/Fantasy is referred to as "speculative fiction", in an attempt to encompass all types of non-realistic fiction, and also to avoid the stigma of genrefication?
  • As an author of a romantic comedy myself, I do understand that it is difficult to make the genre seem fresh after many miserable retreads.
  • The film has a very gritty, realistic feel, again lifting it above being a merely stereotypical genre exercise.
  • At the bottom were the Théâtre de la Gaieté for pantomimes and harlequinades, the Porte-Saint-Martin Theatre for melodramas, and the Théâtre des Variétés for ‘little plays of the bawdy, vulgar or rustic genres'.
  • Ondaatje's novels prominently reflected hybrid language and multi-language voice, Mosaic Genre, Style Simulation, and Parody, make the novels be a carnival square.
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