rock-and-roll

[ US /ˈɹɑˈkænˈdɹoʊɫ/ ]
NOUN
  1. a genre of popular music originating in the 1950s; a blend of black rhythm-and-blues with white country-and-western
    rock is a generic term for the range of styles that evolved out of rock'n'roll.
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How To Use rock-and-roll In A Sentence

  • His parting shot in the series, a fatal double-play groundout in the ninth, sent me to the Amtrak station near the Rock-and-Roll Hall of Fame totally bummed. One Season
  • I loved rock-and-roll music and dancing and went frequently, starting in eighth or ninth grade, even though I was fat, uncool, and hardly popular with the girls.
  • What has always separated them from other rock-and-roll bands is a curious mixture of maturity and immaturity.
  • 1959 - The Day The Music Died: A plane crash kills rock-and-roll performers Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens, and The Big Bopper.
  • The scores of assembled guests, numerous luminaries in their own right, crane with curiosity, eager to discover how a plucky Yale graduate once smuggled sex and politics and rock-and-roll past the gates of the nation's stodgiest newspaper muckety-mucks. Riffs' Best Books of 2010: Trudeau reflects on 40 years of 'DOONESBURY'
  • Hiatt's eponymous Gibson dreadnought buzzed and untuned itself throughout the two-hour performance, which added a rock-and-roll edge to the unplugged affair. In concert: Lyle Lovett and John Hiatt at the Birchmere
  • He was one of those cats that just came along at the right time with an incredible gift, an incredible presence, an incredible magnetism that just dominated the entire rock-and-roll world.
  • But here is the problem with that view: it is actually no sillier to assert the right to rock-and-roll or ice cream than to assert the right to healthcare or education.
  • No one means to seriously assert the right to rock-and-roll or ice cream — they're just being silly, having some fun!
  • Prima chided his generation for attacking rock-and-roll and thereby renouncing its primitive past. A Renegade History of the United States
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