How to Use hipster in a Sentence

hipster

noun
  • And that's probably where the whole thing with the hipster comes in.
    Luke O'Neil, Esquire, 20 Jan. 2016
  • There's enough hipsters there making tasty veggie dishes.
    Emily Zemler, Esquire, 14 Oct. 2016
  • Called the Venture Out section, the space had a decidedly hipster feel to it.
    Joe Jackson, Outside Online, 4 Feb. 2015
  • The toy-like seahorses, which reduced the leather-jacket hipsters to puddles of people jelly.
    Karla Peterson, sandiegouniontribune.com, 26 May 2017
  • The farm goods store and adjacent restaurant were filled with artist types, thirtysomething hipsters and their kids, and turned out to be the Moscow clubhouse for committed foodies.
    Alex Halberstadt, Town & Country, 9 Oct. 2015
  • The farm goods store and adjacent restaurant were filled with artist types, thirtysomething hipsters and their kids, and turned out to be the Moscow clubhouse for committed foodies.
    Alex Halberstadt, Town & Country, 9 Oct. 2015
  • There are also families, hipsters and the occasional American tourist.
    Steven Stolman, Town & Country, 24 Oct. 2016
  • The cheese curds have a hipster aspect ... gotta give points for that.
    Chuck Blount, San Antonio Express-News, 18 June 2018
  • On one side: that rain, those hipsters, those protests.
    oregonlive, 14 Sep. 2019
  • That’s not a concern with this hipster from Third Love.
    Barbara Bellesi Zito, Travel + Leisure, 24 Jan. 2024
  • It's got hipster cred - that rub might have espresso in it.
    Lisa Gutierrez, kansascity, 5 Mar. 2018
  • All of which looked effortlessly cool on the frames of the hipster crowd.
    Max Berlinger, Los Angeles Times, 15 Aug. 2019
  • Owens will play Sophia, a Bushwick hipster that works in the office.
    Breanna Bell, Variety, 15 Dec. 2022
  • By night, the local pubs and nightlife scene draws both hipster and local crowds.
    Natasha Huang Smith, Harper's BAZAAR, 14 July 2017
  • By night, the local pubs and nightlife scene draws both hipster and local crowds.
    Natasha Huang Smith, Harper's BAZAAR, 14 July 2017
  • In truth, the NFL’s hard-core fan base is not composed of bicoastal hipsters.
    Victor Davis Hanson, National Review, 5 Oct. 2017
  • The Five O'Clock Lounge has developed as a hipster hotspot on the weekends.
    Anne Nickoloff, cleveland.com, 11 Oct. 2017
  • Many of these ‘23 Phish fans looked more like hipsters than hippies.
    Matt Wake | Mwake@al.com, al, 12 July 2023
  • In the spring, the Reykjavík Festival filled the hall again with new music and more hipsters.
    Mark Swed, latimes.com, 29 June 2017
  • In this day and age, with phonies and hipster doofuses.
    Marc Bona, cleveland, 26 Nov. 2020
  • Jack’s clearly trying to prove her hipster cred to a toy.
    Spencer Kornhaber, The Atlantic, 6 June 2019
  • To the people getting squeezed out, the white hipster became the avatar for the invasion.
    Brittny Mejia, Joe Mozingo, www.latimes.com, 3 Apr. 2018
  • Right now, value investing may be in the hipster stage, look to the cool kids to start jumping on the trend.
    Jj Kinahan, Forbes, 29 Sep. 2021
  • Granted, no one likes being called a hipster, but Condit checks a lot of the boxes: Lived in the city.
    Phil Bourjaily, Field & Stream, 16 Nov. 2020
  • Today it and the adjacent 7Paramount Cafe are Cheyenne’s first true dose of hipster.
    Dina Mishev, Washington Post, 10 July 2019
  • Maybe – maybe – the hipsters knew that Italy would be a real force in this tournament.
    SI.com, 4 July 2019
  • From there, drive to Sebastopol for a wine hipster haven and a garagiste winery.
    Urmila Ramakrishnan, SFChronicle.com, 27 Oct. 2017
  • This is the stuff that even a French hipster would recognize as très Brooklyn.
    Hugh Garvey, Condé Nast Traveler, 23 Mar. 2018
  • Here, the retiree shopped alongside the hipster, and the only colors that mattered were the bright blue and pink on the marquee of each store.
    Gustavo Arellano, Los Angeles Times, 9 Apr. 2024
  • Critics say the hipsters have taken over, but the approach has attracted fans around the world.
    Ed O’Loughlin, New York Times, 1 Apr. 2024

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