Example sentences for: yuppies

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

  • I think I have heard these very jokes told about yuppies, lawyers, and Jews--which raises an interesting journalism question: How close can the butt of a joke genre get to a newspaper's readership before the paper won't actually repeat the jokes?

  • Without protection for those marginal, cosmopolitan souls who cling to it tenuously, Manhattan would become much more the way people who don't live here imagine it, a soulless playground for yuppies, with an alienated underclass underfoot.

  • TV critics, at least the political-minded ones, opine gravely that Roseanne 's cancellation proves that a complacent America has lost its appetite for "real-life," "blue-collar" characters, that all TV viewers want now are 3 rd Rock From the Sun aliens and Seinfeld yuppies.

  • Soho, along with the Lan Kwai Fong area, is popular with chuppies (Hong Kong yuppies) and has a lively bar scene.

  • Today you are more likely to spot yuppies than hippies shopping in the clothing boutiques and record stores, although a number of homeless youth and posturing teens hang out on the sidewalks seeking spare change.


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