Example sentences for: hipster

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

  • Always read "more for his trend-setting insights than his novelistic dexterity," he loses his hipster cred with this novel "by jumping on the already tired beauty-pageant-bashing bandwagon" ( Publishers' Weekly ). Even worse, "his brand labels are just slightly faded," and the story feels "curiously clipped and uptight" (Tom Shone, the New York Times ). On a more positive note, many also point out that despite his faux pas, Coupland has put together "a brilliant set of riffs" on pop culture and Hollywood life (James Poniewozik, Time ). (Click here to see some of the furniture the author has designed.)

  • But his performance is pure Kramer, "a hipster doofus just the same" (Rita Kempley, the Washington Post ). Even British director Jonathan Lynn is forgiven for indulging in the same lawyer jokes and romantic-comedy subplots he used in My Cousin Vinny . (Click here for the Trial and Error site.)

  • He's a hipster with a canny understanding of the popular culture.

  • Blaine, a 23-year-old hipster magician with a goatee and no fancy equipment, is proclaimed a performer for the people, an anti-David Copperfield.

  • In fact, hipster travel magazines like Time Out and Wallpaper have recently been taking a camp approach to oft-visited locales, telling their readers to embrace their tourist status, to take Circle Line cruises in New York and ride to the top of the Eiffel Tower in Paris.


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