How to Use mainstream in a Sentence

mainstream

1 of 3 noun

• The next mainstream won’t come from playing safe.
  — John Hopewell, Variety, 26 Apr. 2026
• Would this rhetoric spread and become mainstream among many of my peers?
  — Eli Thompson, Rolling Stone, 8 Nov. 2025
• But the best races often lie in the less mainstream genres.
  — Steve Baltin, Los Angeles Times, 29 Jan. 2026
• Her activism sets her apart from other mainstream artists, fans say.
  — Eleanor Nash, Kansas City Star, 5 Oct. 2025
• That said, the data shows both mainstream browsers are far from perfect.
  — Zak Doffman, Forbes.com, 16 Sep. 2025
• That said, the data shows both mainstream browsers are far from perfect.
  — Zak Doffman, Forbes.com, 18 Sep. 2025
• Such work made the neuroscience of play mainstream.
  — Big Think, 22 Oct. 2025
• Livestreamed concerts by mainstream artists are often more like note-by-note recitals.
  — Jenn Pelly, New York Times, 9 May 2023
• The art world, both grassroots and mainstream, noticed.
  — Bradley Wong, Mercury News, 22 Apr. 2026
• This was barely covered by mainstream news.
  — Mark Minevich, Forbes.com, 30 Jan. 2026
• That often equals a welcome mainstream signal boost to films that could use it.
  — Brian Truitt, USA Today, 22 Jan. 2026
• Up to that point, mainstream science thought only humans made and used tools.
  — Keith Matheny, Freep.com, 9 Sep. 2025
• Over time, that could help move the placement of the league from fringe to mainstream interest.
  — Ian Nicholas Quillen, Forbes.com, 25 May 2026
• Tiffany sang her way through suburban malls until the crowds swelled big enough to take her mainstream.
  — Chris Cardillo, Rolling Stone, 23 Sep. 2025
• To a certain extent, there wasn’t any mainstream artist still in their prime who was doing that.
  — Craig Jenkins, Vulture, 9 May 2023
• None of this work was suitable for mainstream audiences.
  — Chadd Scott, Forbes.com, 23 Jan. 2026
• Not all video streaming services aim for mainstream appeal.
  — PC Magazine, 4 Oct. 2025
• But this growth isn’t driven by price-conscious mainstream consumers.
  — Boaz Sobrado, Forbes.com, 3 Sep. 2025
• Back then, UFOs were very much not part of mainstream culture.
  — Adam Frank, Forbes.com, 25 June 2026
• Wellness and longevity travel has moved from niche to mainstream at the top end of the market.
  — Roger Sands, Forbes.com, 1 July 2026
• Jonathan Groff is one of the few theater stars with mainstream name recognition.
  — Alexandra Starr, Vulture, 27 Mar. 2026
• The old complaint is that mainstream media takes orders from Democrats.
  — Larry Clifton, The Orlando Sentinel, 3 May 2026
• The path from niche to mainstream runs through living rooms, not warehouses, in this way of thinking.
  — John Koetsier, Forbes.com, 1 June 2026
• More mainstream drinks like lattes and drip coffee are also available.
  — Mario Cortez, San Francisco Chronicle, 4 May 2023
• Many mainstream vehicles came as two-door coupes, four-door sedans and two-door convertibles.
  — Jason Fogelson, AJC.com, 20 Mar. 2026
• Øystein and Anna wanted to make a mainstream show.
  — K.j. Yossman, Variety, 26 Mar. 2026
• Ain’t nobody else in mainstream country making anything that sounds like this.
  — Ross Raihala, Twin Cities, 8 Feb. 2026
• Fuentes, chased off mainstream platforms, expands and confirms this belief for them.
  — Donie O'Sullivan, CNN Money, 6 June 2026
• Craft date nights have moved from niche to mainstream, with workshop bookings climbing across the country the past two years.
  — Hanna Wickes, Kansas City Star, 25 June 2026
• The Odyssey marks Page’s return to mainstream film and his first major movie role as a trans man.
  — Brianna Zigler, Entertainment Weekly, 3 July 2026

mainstream

2 of 3 adjective

• That part of his message, at least, is now mainstream.
  — Xochitl Gonzalez, The Atlantic, 5 Feb. 2026
• Clearly, by that stage, the term had gone mainstream.
  — Michael Cox, New York Times, 11 Mar. 2026
• More mainstream movies can get shorter shrift.
  — Scott Roxborough, HollywoodReporter, 27 Aug. 2025
• The outsider art has gone mainstream.
  — Scott Roxborough, HollywoodReporter, 15 Jan. 2026
• In 2003, that idea was not yet mainstream.
  — John Hope Bryant, Time, 23 June 2026
• My dream was to become a pop star and to become mainstream.
  — Ilana Kaplan, PEOPLE, 12 June 2026
• Egg freezing has gone mainstream.
  — Allison Palmer march 9, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 9 Mar. 2026
• Sauna culture has gone mainstream.
  — Jen Murphy, Outside, 1 Feb. 2026
• Never had a mainstream rap artist made such a bold choice for their album art.
  — Rolling Stone, 26 Sep. 2025
• As these drinks hit more mainstream shelves, though, that perception could change.
  — Kate Bernot, Bon Appetit Magazine, 29 Oct. 2025
• This isn’t their first brush with mainstream attention.
  — Hanna Wickes, Miami Herald, 7 Apr. 2026
• So Mala Noche wasn’t about mainstream gay culture.
  — Scott Roxborough, HollywoodReporter, 27 Aug. 2025
• These brands are mainstream, just like Bad Bunny.
  — Vanessa Diaz, Rolling Stone, 30 Sep. 2025
• But mainstream Democrats have to think hard when arguing against the left.
  — David Brooks, The Atlantic, 8 July 2026
• Because solos have slipped out of mainstream music, along with bands, for the most part.
  — Brian Hiatt, Rolling Stone, 9 Aug. 2023
• And no approach was too office-coded, or too mainstream.
  — Kelsey Ables, The Atlantic, 13 June 2026
• 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
• None of these claims sat well with more mainstream conservatives.
  — TIME, 20 Oct. 2023
• As popular as lemon curd is, only a few brands are found at mainstream grocery stores.
  — Jolene Thym, Mercury News, 20 Mar. 2026
• The biggest tell is its lineup of headliners, which each year goes more mainstream and more pop.
  — José Criales-Unzueta, Vanity Fair, 15 Apr. 2026
• Even among mainstream auto brands, like Ford, EVs tend to cost more.
  — Peter Valdes-Dapena, CNN, 9 Feb. 2024
• Still, experts caution that more work needs to be done before the drops become mainstream.
  — Khloe Quill, FOXNews.com, 25 Sep. 2025
• When smartphones and tablets became mainstream, many of us used them to occupy and soothe our kids.
  — Sarah Said, Chicago Tribune, 5 June 2026
• There haven’t been very mainstream Trump songs over the past decade, but this doesn’t surprise Casale one bit.
  — Andy Greene, Rolling Stone, 3 July 2026
• 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
• But these days Formula 1 has gone mainstream.
  — Maxwell Adler, Vanity Fair, 27 Apr. 2026
• Even mainstream art world audiences.
  — Chadd Scott, Forbes.com, 23 Jan. 2026
• But doulas are becoming mainstream.
  — Laura Ungar, Chicago Tribune, 29 Mar. 2026
• Now the vaginal microbiome has gone mainstream.
  — Helen Carefoot, Flow Space, 28 May 2026
• Just a few years ago public displays of music and art were forbidden, and both are now mainstream.
  — Manal Albarakati, semafor.com, 1 Oct. 2025

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.
• Only now, some on the right are trying to mainstream the idea.
  — Richard Galant, CNN, 31 Oct. 2021
• He’s gone from being a pariah to mainstream.
  — Eli Thompson, Rolling Stone, 8 Nov. 2025
• 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
• 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
• Backyard chickens have gone from fringe hobby to mainstream pet in under a decade.
  — Ryan Brennan, Sacbee.com, 30 June 2026
• The singer feels remarkably relaxed about his fame for an artist on the path to mainstream success.
  — Los Angeles Times, 4 June 2026
• Why might mainstream media be hesitant to pick up the story?
  — Emma Woollacott, Forbes.com, 15 Sep. 2025
• 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
• Consider the path to mainstream adoption.
  — Lindsey Argalas, Forbes.com, 20 Jan. 2026
• This could go mainstream much faster than, say, power from nuclear fusion and be far less expensive.
  — Avery Hurt, Discover Magazine, 6 Sep. 2023
• 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
• Most upper-class people who end up in politics moderate their accents and mainstream their views.
  — The Economist, 1 Feb. 2018
• But each surgery adds evidence that brain-computer interfaces may one day move from lab trials to mainstream care.
  — Neetika Walter, Interesting Engineering, 4 Sep. 2025
• Experts estimate autonomous agents will be ready to go mainstream within three to five years.
  — François Candelon, Fortune, 1 Dec. 2023
• 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
• The commendable aim was to mainstream the principle of user control over data.
  — Julian Lucas, New Yorker, 29 Sep. 2025
• In fact, our messaging helped mainstream the concept that pursuing social good was also good for the bottom line.
  — Andrew Stuttaford, National Review, 20 Mar. 2021
• 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
• These efforts helped mainstream the idea working on one's physique was a sign of normal male sexuality, not deviance.
  — Natalia Mehlman Petrzela, CNN, 14 Dec. 2021
• As a result, companies can quickly go from niche to mainstream through a fast-spinning virtuous cycle.
  — Roomy Khan, Forbes, 27 June 2021
• As crypto moved from fringe to mainstream to cultural punch line, its promise of revolution faded.
  — Clara Molot, Vanity Fair, 17 Mar. 2026
• This is the wing of the organization most inclined to mainstream compromise.
  — Molly Fischer, New Yorker, 2 Apr. 2026
• But just as the technology seemed poised to move from moonshot to mainstream, customer complaints started coming in.
  — Los Angeles Times, 15 June 2026
• Often, the black avant-garde doesn’t get sufficient due until their output is co-opted by someone white or is somehow mainstreamed.
  — Michelle Legro, Longreads, 19 Dec. 2017
• LaPierre, who rarely speaks to mainstream media outlets, declined requests to be interviewed.
  — Washington Post, 9 Aug. 2019
• As zero-proof drinks move from novelty to mainstream, understanding what’s swirling around in your glass matters more than ever.
  — Lauren Schuster, Miami Herald, 27 May 2026
• Barker founded the brand to bring everyday wellness products to mainstream retail.
  — Ryan Brennan, Charlotte Observer, 7 May 2026
• Electric bicycles, better known as e-bikes, have moved from novelty to mainstream with breathtaking speed.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 25 Nov. 2021