Example sentences for: yuppies

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

  • At movie's end, Tarzan and Jane move in with Mom and her furry family, like '90s yuppies who have given up and moved back home.

  • It may be a sop for the few remaining grizzled veterans, sweating out their pensions in the corners of the world's city rooms at papers taken over by Perrier-quaffing yuppies.

  • 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.

  • At Washington dinner parties in the late 1970s, the implausible new arbiter was a prime topic of conversation among yuppies, who then sent their hosts thank-you notes in blue or black ink, as she prescribed.

  • Tyler's subsequent idea of confining his group's mayhem to franchise coffee bars and corporate-subsidized art is a witty one--it's like a parody of neo-Nazism as re-enacted by yuppies.


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