Example sentences for: yuppie

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

  • Rich patrons flock to faux blues clubs on the yuppie North Side, while authentic blues men are left audienceless in the slums.

  • Only New York has no suburb with an essentially yuppie character--by which I mean dotted with little strip centers containing, perhaps, one or two casually chic restaurants, a Starbucks, a Borders, an upscale food market, an art gallery, a Merchant-Ivory-type movie theater, and a mildly stylish home-furnishings store.

  • Most of our (yuppie) friends have their kids call my wife and me by our first names.

  • He's (briefly) a slick but wholesome yuppie and then (interminably) Death, who takes over the young man's body when he's thumped by a couple of cars in the movie's most promising moment.

  • Marc is a bit of a youpie yuppie and has to ensure he is keeping his standing social status.


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