Example sentences for: downmarket

How can you use “downmarket” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • If your tastes are downmarket, you can be a purist in that department too--just buy the works of white-trash aficionados Jane and Michael Stern, all of whose dishes must be presented with the requisite ironic appurtenances, such as trays and swizzle sticks.

  • No--they are the "extremely rich, who sell homes for millions of dollars" and their downmarket cousins, "those who have spent many years trading up from one home to another and now have homes worth more than $500,000."

  • Cute might seem downmarket, given the associations companies usually want to attach to their top-flight computers and cars--you know, power, speed, precision engineering, the building blocks of American masculinity.


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