How to Use headbanger in a Sentence
headbanger
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The pit is the Promised Land every true headbanger longs for.
—Bob Larsen, SPIN, 12 Feb. 2022
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This is why headbangers and punks are the most loyal fans on the planet.
—Jim Ruland, Los Angeles Times, 1 May 2023
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But she’s been a punk, a headbanger, a grunge brat, a club kid, an R&B girl-for-hire, and a law-breaking lover of 4 Non Blondes.
—Kate Sullivan, SPIN, 18 Feb. 2023
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The worst part about weddings for headbangers is wedding DJs and their staid playlists.
—Andy O'Connor, SPIN, 29 May 2023
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That's right, the producers are pulling out all the headbanger classics for All Stars!
—Sydney Bucksbaum, EW.com, 1 Apr. 2021
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Goths, punks, headbangers, and even a few normies are scattered throughout the crowd, ready to give these road dogs a victory lap.
—Andy O'Connor, SPIN, 24 May 2023
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The last elimination of the season is a good old-fashioned headbanger.
—Sydney Bucksbaum, EW.com, 10 May 2023
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That’s two new tunes, two classics in four nights — something for every headbanger.
—Lars Brandle, Billboard, 14 Apr. 2023
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Anyone who suffers from the hell that is migraine headaches wonders the same thing: Are there any effective ways to stave off the next headbanger?
—Lisa Bain, Good Housekeeping, 23 July 2021
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Meanwhile, the Nashville concert was sold-out and 9,800 headbangers were waiting.
—Matt Wake | Mwake@al.com, al, 27 Feb. 2023
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The title track kicks off with a tornado of high-speed shred that plays like the headbanger’s version of a classical overture.
—Hank Shteamer, SPIN, 24 Jan. 2023
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Taylor Momsen slays a sludgy headbanger, with an assist from half of Soundgarden.
—Matt Wake | Mwake@al.com, al, 7 July 2021
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At March Shredness, part of an annual, themed music project, Andy Segedi looks back at his youth as a headbanger.
—Aaron Gilbreath, Longreads, 12 Oct. 2017
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Like the classic headbanger this challenge is based on, this will all be happening at once, so players can and will collide in the center, like a three-way Hall Brawl.
—Sydney Bucksbaum, EW.com, 18 Nov. 2021
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And if the elimination is a headbanger, Big Easy would obviously win.
—Kyndall Cunningham, Vulture, 16 Apr. 2021
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The string arrangement adds a gorgeous drama to the tune, while also making the headbanger shockingly graceful.
—Rania Aniftos, Billboard, 4 Oct. 2019
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But according to the film, Alago was recognized as a headbanger whose knowledge of the scene demanded respect.
—John Defore, The Hollywood Reporter, 21 July 2017
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Demna, who looks like a headbanger, in torn jeans and ratty band T-shirts, with piercings in both ears, seemed to have emerged onto fashion’s biggest stage straight from a Rammstein concert.
—Nick Haramis Nick Haramis Photographs By Lise Sarfati Styled By Suzanne Koller Sasha Weiss Photographs By Justin French Adam Bradley Photographs By D’angelo Lovell Williams Styled By Ian Bradley Susan Dominus Photographs By Luis Alberto Rodriguez Styled By Charlotte Collet, New York Times, 13 Oct. 2022
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Walking into Purgatory, there's just an empty circle in the pit, meaning this is going to be a headbanger!
—Sydney Bucksbaum, EW.com, 25 June 2020
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For nearly 50 years, Flip Side has withstood changing times and changing music formats to remain the old-school go-to for headbangers throughout San Antonio.
—René A. Guzman, ExpressNews.com, 23 Jan. 2020
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Hordes of headbangers amassed in Germany for the world’s largest heavy metal festival – among them, two elderly men who apparently left their retirement home to rock out, police said.
—Rick Noack, The Seattle Times, 6 Aug. 2018
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As far as biases go, my taste is for anything exciting, emotional, dance-worthy, and an outright headbanger.
—Vogue, 7 Dec. 2021
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The wobbly, bass-centric sound hit every nerve in America's collective collegiate youth, turning Greek-life gym rats and edge-dwelling nerds into kindred headbangers.
—Billboard Staff, Billboard, 26 Nov. 2019
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Flavors of Detroit techno and soulful wailing gradually seep in to this deranged headbanger that seemingly crept in from a dimension just adjacent to ours.
—Katie Bain, Billboard, 30 Jan. 2021
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That performance remains essential viewing for headbangers.
—Matt Wake | Mwake@al.com, al, 14 Mar. 2023
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