How to Use mainstream in a Sentence

mainstream

1 of 3 noun

• That has been well outside the judicial mainstream since around the time of the New Deal.
  — John Timmer, Ars Technica, 25 May 2023
• So mainstream users can still use it for a little longer.
  — Michael Kan, PCMAG, 4 Aug. 2023
• Subaru was the top mainstream brand, and No. 2 overall.
  — Mark Phelan, Detroit Free Press, 27 Feb. 2024
• The movement to make pay transparency mainstream in the U.S. has picked up steam over the past few years.
  — Natasha Solo-Lyons, Anchorage Daily News, 5 June 2023
• To a certain extent, there wasn’t any mainstream artist still in their prime who was doing that.
  — Craig Jenkins, Vulture, 9 May 2023
• But for the industry mainstream, Toronto will be the real stress test.
  — Scott Roxborough, The Hollywood Reporter, 8 Sep. 2023
• Far from it: For me, part of the real joy of a life of dedicated movie-watching is the mix of old and new, art house and mainstream, all of it.
  — Mark Olsen, Los Angeles Times, 18 Aug. 2023
• Livestreamed concerts by mainstream artists are often more like note-by-note recitals.
  — Jenn Pelly, New York Times, 9 May 2023
• They got signed to a metal label, Roadrunner Records, as the sole mainstream rock guys.
  — Jada Yuan, Washington Post, 14 Sep. 2023
• The high costs of trying to turn the metaverse into a mainstream business have spooked Wall Street, causing Meta’s stock to plunge last year.
  — Natasha Singer, New York Times, 16 June 2023
• Home-schooling, on the other hand, has changed drastically over the past few decades, evolving from a fringe choice to a mainstream one.
  — Alissa Wilkinson, New York Times, 14 Jan. 2024
• But mainstream awareness of kala namak was still slow-going over the past decade, said Vora of Rainbow Plant Life.
  — Mayukh Sen, Washington Post, 20 Sep. 2023
• As the years have progressed, it’s been fun to see all of this become a little bit more mainstream and weirdly accepted as fact.
  — Brian Davids, The Hollywood Reporter, 21 Sep. 2023
• Barnes’s 1966 New York show might have marked his triumphant emergence into the artistic mainstream.
  — Adam Bradley, New York Times, 15 Sep. 2023
• In 1993, the album The Chronic (originally released the year before) broke through to hip-hop’s mainstream.
  — Armond White, National Review, 15 Nov. 2023
• This was the first mainstream show centered entirely around climate.
  — Melissa Jun Rowley, Rolling Stone, 22 Feb. 2024
• As part of that push for mainstream appeal, Linden said the company is not advertising the fact that NFTs or the blockchain are being used.
  — Marco Quiroz-Gutierrez, Fortune Crypto, 26 Apr. 2023
• Drag Race is such a viral and mainstream platform that absolutely drag kings deserve to be on.
  — Joey Nolfi, EW.com, 25 Mar. 2024
• Both were popular Christian singers who also crossed over to mainstream pop and country tunes.
  — Melissa Locker, Southern Living, 31 Oct. 2023
• The Army Corps was attacked relentlessly in Congress and mainstream newspapers—but not for the treatment of Black refugees.
  — Geoff Dembicki, The New Republic, 2 Aug. 2023
• The south has a big and growing Latine population that is rarely seen or discussed in mainstream media.
  — Nicole Froio, refinery29.com, 17 Aug. 2023
• But the opportunity to go mainstream was not afforded to all Latin artists.
  — Allie Weintraub, ABC News, 15 Sep. 2023
• Bob Hope, then one of the country’s biggest and most mainstream entertainers, saw Bennett there and invited him to open one of his shows.
  — David Browne, Rolling Stone, 21 July 2023
• There was a sci-fi genre that mainstream writers were very serious about, and that was romance comics (soonjeong manhwa).
  — Kate Knibbs, WIRED, 11 July 2023
• Because, when an artist gets this level of mainstream, the accepted rules of the fandom aren’t just inaccessible to a group of new fans.
  — Ct Jones, Rolling Stone, 26 Aug. 2023
• More mainstream drinks like lattes and drip coffee are also available.
  — Mario Cortez, San Francisco Chronicle, 4 May 2023
• This is yet more evidence that the worlds of blockchain and mainstream finance are drawing closer together.
  — Jeff John Roberts, Fortune Crypto, 28 Apr. 2023
• Aimee tries something new by taking an Art A-Level and Adam grapples with whether mainstream education is for him.
  — Sophia Scorziello, Variety, 3 Aug. 2023
• It’s rapidly become mainstream with ChatGPT, which can help write you a cocktail recipe and even guide you through woodworking projects.
  — Matt Crisara, Popular Mechanics, 14 Aug. 2023
• The delay was on-brand for the company’s decade-long project to make virtual reality mainstream.
  — Steven Levy, WIRED, 29 Sep. 2023

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mainstream

2 of 3 adjective

• Some, like the Dave Matthews Band and Phish, have achieved mainstream success.
  — David L. Coddon, San Diego Union-Tribune, 11 Jan. 2024
• But the fact that the footage has now been seen across the globe has risked damaging her mainstream image.
  — Stefano Pitrelli, Washington Post, 11 Jan. 2024
• Even among mainstream auto brands, like Ford, EVs tend to cost more.
  — Peter Valdes-Dapena, CNN, 9 Feb. 2024
• Payne said that in the 1990s, many Christian groups wanted to get mainstream success.
  — Bob Smietana, Fortune, 15 Sep. 2023
• How mainstream the court will become for the NBA is still to be determined.
  — The Indianapolis Star, 15 Feb. 2024
• Because solos have slipped out of mainstream music, along with bands, for the most part.
  — Brian Hiatt, Rolling Stone, 9 Aug. 2023
• The site wasn’t too keen on the idea, with cofounder Evan Williams going so far as to tell Messina that hashtags were too niche to go mainstream.
  — Chris Morris, Fortune, 19 Apr. 2023
• There’s this rumor that fat and thick people don't work out, and obesity shouldn't be mainstream.
  — Rita Omokha, ELLE, 14 July 2023
• From where is Microsoft pulling the idea that these very mainstream, midrange shoppers don’t need backlit keys?
  — Tom Warren, The Verge, 24 Oct. 2023
• None of these claims sat well with more mainstream conservatives.
  — TIME, 20 Oct. 2023
• Google may be the company that’s able to make foldable phones more mainstream, CNET has suggested.
  — Justin Ray, Robb Report, 4 May 2023
• But speaking of Team Evolve, will the next album project be a pivot back to more obviously mainstream fare, or…?
  — Chris Willman, Variety, 7 Apr. 2024
• What, exactly, is mainstream at a time when so many people get their news through a mélange of social-media posts?
  — Jay Caspian Kang, The New Yorker, 10 Nov. 2023
• The Pogues achieved mainstream success with their unique blend of punk rock and traditional Irish folk songs and instruments.
  — Conor Murray, Forbes, 30 Nov. 2023
• In the age where tin-foil hat conspiracies go mainstream, cracking the door with any breadcrumb to doubt the integrity of games was rigged or fixed builds a house of cards.
  — Michael Casagrande | [e-mail], al, 13 July 2023
• And that pejorative is so mainstream, that even Michelle Obama said it.
  — The Foretold Team, Los Angeles Times, 11 Apr. 2023
• The company pledged not to sell ads on content that rejects mainstream climate science more than a year ago.
  — Justine Calma, The Verge, 2 May 2023
• That one of the most mainstream celebrities should align themselves with the aesthetics of a nihilistic subculture is a bit fun.
  — Daniel Rodgers, Glamour, 7 Nov. 2023
• There have been many mainstream movies of late taking on the anxiety and impact of being an immigrant in the United States.
  — The Arizona Republic, 14 Mar. 2024
• But mainstream political leaders in the U.S. lack the power or the will to explore even common-sense measures.
  — Matthew King, The New Republic, 18 Aug. 2023
• Over the past 30 years, video games have grown from a toy, to a niche hobby, and finally into mainstream entertainment.
  — Steven T. Wright, Popular Mechanics, 22 June 2023
• The ceremony will cap one of the buzziest years for mainstream movies in recent memory.
  — Wesley Stenzel, EW.com, 8 Mar. 2024
• Yet more mainstream groups have also offered this advice.
  — Lauren Leffer, Scientific American, 20 Dec. 2023
• Consistently, he’s put the culture in mainstream eyes with grace and elegance.
  — Daniel Kohn, Spin, 28 Aug. 2023
• Although Nickelback has achieved mainstream success, the band has been a polarizing force in the music world.
  — Mary Colurso | [e-mail], al, 8 June 2023
• The types of care vary by the age and goals of the recipient and are considered the standard of care by many mainstream medical associations.
  — Nicquel Terry Ellis, CNN, 3 Oct. 2023
• Year by year, songs by Reggaeton artists slowly started creeping up the Billboard charts and soon enough became mainstream pop.
  — Allie Weintraub, ABC News, 15 Sep. 2023
• Many predict that technology could take a decade to become mainstream.
  — Michael Verdon, Robb Report, 3 Dec. 2023
• The motivations that led to end-to-end encryption going mainstream lie far out on the political fringe.
  — Kai Ye, WIRED, 23 July 2023
• Who’s to say that the views expressed by Wenner aren’t shared by others in positions of power in mainstream music journalism?
  — Fidel Martinez, Los Angeles Times, 21 Sep. 2023

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mainstream

3 of 3 verb

• The poor should be mainstreamed into the private health-insurance system.
• Ideas that were once controversial have now become mainstreamed.
• In the last two years, Margiela’s split-toe Tabi went from fringe to mainstream.
  — Tara Gonzalez, Harper's BAZAAR, 23 June 2023
• The goal is to help mainstream the Irish language through the reach of a medium like film.
  — Carlos Aguilar, Los Angeles Times, 23 Feb. 2023
• Only now, some on the right are trying to mainstream the idea.
  — Richard Galant, CNN, 31 Oct. 2021
• What was then fringe is now tacking sharply to mainstream.
  — Nick Paumgarten, The New Yorker, 1 Nov. 2021
• These are just a few out-there sounding trends that are getting mainstreamed at spas around the world.
  — Victoria Veilleux, Condé Nast Traveler, 24 Jan. 2018
• There were kids like Jim, who — like me — had been mainstreamed, and were the only disabled person in his posse.
  — Maysoon Zayid, refinery29.com, 30 Mar. 2020
• Many of the tracks on the album explore an edge to pop-punk that’s not typical to mainstream Top 40 radio.
  — cleveland, 24 Feb. 2022
• Perhaps the most profound shift is in the way that mainstream America talks about gender.
  — Michael Schulman, The New Yorker, 27 Sep. 2019
• This is how the smart home market transitions from early adopters to mainstream consumers over the next two or three years.
  — Bill Curtis, Forbes, 27 Jan. 2023
• Now, Ezra has announced a fresh $21 million in venture funding to take full-body scans mainstream.
  — Rashi Shrivastava, Forbes, 10 Feb. 2024
• Compare that to TikTok’s 1 billion-plus monthly active users and it’s clear that the leap to mainstream adoption still needs to be made.
  — Iris Ten Teije, Forbes, 5 Oct. 2022
• So begins the war of the voices, to see which platform—if any—can rise to mainstream status and shape the future of social networking.
  — Arielle Pardes, Wired, 16 Dec. 2020
• While other artists brought rap to mainstream America prior his arrival, no one pushed the genre to the heights like Eminem did.
  — Troy L. Smith, cleveland, 18 Apr. 2022
• What can mainstream networks learn from PJ in reaching young people?
  — Leila Cobo, Billboard, 20 July 2022
• The Christian right owes its current influence in part to Bush, who mainstreamed it in ways that his father and Ronald Reagan did not.
  — Sarah Jones, The New Republic, 15 Mar. 2018
• That connection turned out to be too tenuous to sell to mainstream news outlets.
  — David D. Kirkpatrick, The New Yorker, 27 Mar. 2023
• Buoyed by the pandemic, 2020 was undoubtedly the year that telehealth turned the corner to mainstream.
  — Mario Aguilar, STAT, 14 Jan. 2021
• There’s been a major impact in terms of what Tesla has done to mainstream the idea of electric vehicles.
  — Katie Kilkenny, The Hollywood Reporter, 20 May 2022
• By Wednesday, the hashtag had quickly jumped from the hard-right of the internet to mainstream Republicans.
  — Nick Corasaniti, New York Times, 5 Nov. 2020
• If the Force is with Funko — and the winds cooperate — the company and its line of vinyl figurines could make the leap from the cool nerds’ lunch table to mainstream pop consciousness.
  — New York Times, 24 Nov. 2021
• These plaudits, of course, don’t add up to mainstream commercial success.
  — Jacob Carpenter, Fortune, 28 Mar. 2022
• Throughout the campaign and since the election, Márquez has used her growing prominence to mainstream her Afro-Colombian heritage.
  — Diana Durán, Washington Post, 16 July 2022
• In the years since, replacement theory has moved from the online fringe to mainstream right-wing politics.
  — Chris Megerian, Chicago Tribune, 16 May 2022
• Teams was the first to mainstream the use of virtual rooms, which Microsoft calls Together Mode.
  — Emily Dreyfuss, SFChronicle.com, 9 Aug. 2020
• Since then, the singular they has been further mainstreamed, though the path to acceptance has not been entirely smooth.
  — Ben Zimmer, The Atlantic, 27 Sep. 2019
• Ukraine has an ambitious plan to both mainstream the nation’s thriving trade in crypto and to rebrand the entire country.
  — New York Times, 18 Nov. 2021
• But in 2001, his influence helped mainstream the rush to incriminate America for the crimes and sins of others.
  — A. J. Caschetta, National Review, 14 Oct. 2021
• As a child, Bowie was a Little Richard fanatic who went Mod in the ‘60s, was a space-age folk singer, and the original glam-rock superstar, gender-blending to mainstream alarm.
  — Steve Appleford, SPIN, 15 Sep. 2022

Last Updated: 7 May 2024