How to Use yuppie in a Sentence

yuppie

noun

• Her friends are just a bunch of yuppies.
• This Christmas tale about a yuppie’s descent to skid row is pitch black.
  — Jody Rosen, Los Angeles Times, 14 Dec. 2020
• Arguably, the film is a sly satire of ’80s yuppies and the baby-boomers who abandoned their values to chase the stock market.
  — Jesse David Fox, Vulture, 16 Mar. 2024
• Back inside there's a mixed crowd of black and white men and women—lots of students, punk rockers, and yuppies.
  — Aimee Levitt, Chicago Reader, 23 May 2018
• What this means is that the Cage character has to hit bottom to purge himself, to come out the other side of his pain and his yuppie dream.
  — Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 18 May 2024
• Ben Stiller also makes an appearance as a suave yuppie who wants to help push Lelaina to success.
  — Kelly Lawler, USA TODAY, 3 June 2017
• In the ’80s and ’90s, branded Gucci and Chanel belt buckles served as signal flares for yuppie shoppers.
  — Faran Krentcil, WSJ, 27 Oct. 2023
• This new scumbag combines the tech-savvyness of Silicon Valley with the moral and ethics of 1980s Wall Street yuppies.
  — Craig Timberg, Washington Post, 19 Mar. 2018
• Her fantasies are those of the proto-yuppie who is not quite there yet but definitely on her way.
  — Rina Nkulu, Vulture, 30 Oct. 2021
• In the comedy hit, a yuppie couple from New York City dumps a bunch of money into what is supposed to be their dream home.
  — Craig Hlavaty, Houston Chronicle, 17 Jan. 2018
• First artists, then yuppies and tech workers arrived, leaving a tide of displacement in their wake.
  — Julia Wick, Los Angeles Times, 6 May 2020
• Not far away was a Zen bakery, a corner store run by brothers from Palestine, and a gym frequented by the types then known as yuppies.
  — Nathan Heller, The New Yorker, 7 June 2019
• And in recent years downtown and central Phoenix has become just as full of bars restaurants and culture but less of a party zone and more of a yuppie zone.
  — Patrick May, The Mercury News, 18 June 2019
• Miles, the eldest, is a top lawyer and yuppie who becomes a drug addict and pauper, then turns his life around and becomes a state senator.
  — Mark Greif, The Atlantic, 15 Mar. 2022
• Chandler was the yuppie of the group, with a well-paying white-collar job his friends did not entirely understand.
  — Matt Stevens, New York Times, 30 Oct. 2023
• Convenience, freshness, a culture-hopping menu, and a yuppie gloss are what Blue Apron has to offer.
  — April Glaser, Slate Magazine, 20 July 2017
• But Amazon has a strategy that may go beyond selling aged manchego to yuppies.
  — Daniel Gross, Slate Magazine, 16 June 2017
• That’s a hyperpop bogeyman as potent as the yuppie was for hardcore punk, or as the senator’s son was for the Woodstock crowd.
  — Spencer Kornhaber, The Atlantic, 14 Feb. 2021
• There’s a disco ball above the bar where plaid flannel shirts and local yuppies in rumpled Patagonia Better Sweaters drink off their weeks.
  — Oset Babur, Bon Appetit, 6 June 2018
• Your yuppie sister doesn’t know Lou Reed from a broken dishwasher.
  — Hannah Seidlitz, Longreads, 10 Aug. 2020
• An eager yuppie and his wife adopt a little boy, Junior, who’s totally out of control.
  — Los Angeles Times, 13 Sep. 2019
• On the verge of turning 40, an unhappy Manhattan yuppie is roped into joining his two friends on a cattle drive in the southwest.
  — Houston Chronicle, 14 Nov. 2019
• Over the decades, Mr. Contant grew bitter about the volcanic upheaval in the East Village’s demographics, from hippie to yuppie.
  — Sam Roberts, New York Times, 23 Nov. 2023
• But there’s the difference: Bale is intentionally going over the top as a soulless yuppie who doesn’t quite know how to act human.
  — Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 28 Jan. 2021
• Having catered to the hustle-like, yuppie millennials who would forgo their lunch breaks to eat a $15 salad at their desk, Sweetgreen had been hit hard by the pandemic.
  — Michelle Cheng, Quartz, 29 Oct. 2021
• And for those seeking the stable, yuppie suit-and-tie lifestyle, law school might be a better bet than the talent agencies and entertainment companies at this point.
  — Ryan Faughnder, Los Angeles Times, 7 June 2022
• Others shun the store as an overpriced monument to yuppie indulgence.
  — Craig Giammona, chicagotribune.com, 19 June 2017
• At its best, the movie takes the unlikely shape of a yuppie-in-peril thriller about chickens coming home to roost—Cape Fear reinvented into a Shakespearean sports drama.
  — A.a. Dowd, Chron, 24 Feb. 2023
• Hippies, yuppies, millennials, snobs of all stripes: Lower your health standards, or dip at your own peril.
  — Josh Hafner, USA TODAY, 21 Sep. 2017
• Law's Rory looks like the poster boy for yuppie prosperity with his Mercedes sedan, espresso machine, and general master-of-the-universe air.
  — Leah Greenblatt, EW.com, 18 Sep. 2020

Last Updated: 16 Nov 2024