How To Use Yuppie In A Sentence

  • Why don't they mention the yuppies or the businessmen who have a skinful on a Friday night in the wine bar after work?
  • He was disappointed in her choice of restaurant, a noisy, yuppie hang-out, the sort of place where design took precedence over comfort. YELLOW BIRD
  • Her overbearingly entitled yuppie brother, Beau (Craig Wallace), clumsily pitches a tent near Johnnie's with girlfriend-of-the-moment Shavondra (Fatima Quander), a clotheshorse who would flee nature faster than you can say "American Express. '24, 7, 365' review: Perpetual state of angst can be hard to handle
  • Her overbearingly entitled yuppie brother, Beau (Craig Wallace), clumsily pitches a tent near Johnnie's with girlfriend-of-the-moment Shavondra (Fatima Quander), a clotheshorse who would flee nature faster than you can say "American Express. '24, 7, 365' review: Perpetual state of angst can be hard to handle
  • He lived the high life as a London yuppie and threw it all away to work with the poor and destitute in Liverpool slums.
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  • Guber, the quintessential New Age yuppie, is seen heading off his divorce because it would cost him too much, and participating in hand-holding group therapy sessions with business partner Peters. Archive 2005-12-01
  • The yuppies in the burbs of Austin, Houston and Dallas don't have anything to worry about, and if they did, they would just sell their house for a profit.
  • Another unforeseen bit of business: yuppies started paying half a million for a condo on the canal, right next to the smoky old factory.
  • Richard Chamberlain: The sound of King Lear pitching Eldorados, Didn't the Yuppie-angst thing die with "thirtysomething"? Pitching With The Stars
  • In case after case, from somnambulism to neurasthenia to ‘Yuppie flu,’ we see how medical and cultural trends alternately reinforce and erode particular psychosomatic symptoms.
  • Once only a few precious Yuppies had cellphones, now every burglar has at least one mobile.
  • Perrier's coy advertising, aimed at yuppies everywhere, made bottled water fashionable.
  • One of the more noteworthy conflicts of the earlier series saw Ozzy and family tormenting the nouveau yuppies over the back fence for their appalling taste in music.
  • You can't expect to be free to work the street in areas used extensively by gentrified yuppies.
  • miles credit card of a masochistic inframaxillary unpaved undone out his yuppie in virgin, imposingly alexandrite, csa. Rational Review
  • To me, Cabbagetown is a sometimes hilarious mix between dollar-store and yuppie, with some great mid-range too. » Cities for People: The Melancholy of East Chinatown • Spacing Toronto • understanding the urban landscape
  • The current proposals are being overviewed this month, but is the yuppie public ready to buy ‘market rate’ condos in Woodward's?
  • This was a perfectly nice Polish neighborhood before you guys decided to move in, open up your hip bars, and generally make the area more inhabitable for the Yuppies.
  • Yuppie scum are buying a product called "rimming sugar", do you think they even know what "rimming" is? Archive 2005-07-01
  • Way before 3/4ths of you were even alive, Grasso invented disco mixing by blending heavy rock and heavy funk (Santana, JB, War, etc.) for a rabid audience of newly sexually liberated future yuppies, guppies, and buppies.
  • But to watch yuppie parents squirm with dread and confusion when anything in their households goes on the fritz is to wonder whether it was such a bad thing for one half of the marriageable population to know how to mend a fallen hem and the other to have rudimentary knowledge of the workings of a fuse box. Leaving It to the Professionals
  • `They keep putting us off with murmurings of entrepreneurs and quick-buck merchants -- yuppie treason, someone called it. THE LAST RAVEN
  • `They keep putting us off with murmurings of entrepreneurs and quick-buck merchants -- yuppie treason, someone called it. THE LAST RAVEN
  • We can send the yuppies running, eradicate the trustafarians, obliterate the trendoids.
  • It saw rapid expansion as the niche became - in yuppie fashion - mainstream. Starbucks to Double Its Purchase of Fair Trade Coffee in 2009
  • So the "key aspirations" of egalitarian liberals and social conservatives are "broadly in consonance" with ruining the lives of poor immigrants in order to cut native-born yuppies down to size? Malevolent Aspirations, Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
  • So there are these three visually challenged yuppies at the zoo, checking out their first elephant.
  • He was disappointed in her choice of restaurant, a noisy, yuppie hang-out, the sort of place where design took precedence over comfort. YELLOW BIRD
  • This was the rise of the baby boom generation - and young upwardly mobile professionals, known as yuppies.
  • He contents himself with a class analysis of the attractiveness of the sport to yuppie parents.
  • Harlem is a relatively harmless, rather dull patch of a great city still garnering a tiny cachet among the local yuppies because it used to have quite a spunky black community.
  • The term yuppie (short for "young urban professional" or "young upwardly-mobile professional") refers to an 1980s and early 1990s term for financially secure, upper-middle class young people in their 20s and early 30s. LA IMC
  • Across the street, half a dozen guys spilled out of a yuppie bar, two of them mouthing off at each other, the others watching. NEW YORK DEAD
  • The whole area was full of tourists looking lost, families looking bored and yuppies looking drunk.
  • Yuppies are a prime target group for marketing strategies.
  • The yuppie crowds love the concept and organisers swear that these events are extremely popular.
  • The yuppie apostles of the ‘new economy’ will also be humbled by a plunging stock market.
  • He was disappointed in her choice of restaurant, a noisy, yuppie hang-out, the sort of place where design took precedence over comfort. YELLOW BIRD
  • `They keep putting us off with murmurings of entrepreneurs and quick-buck merchants -- yuppie treason, someone called it. THE LAST RAVEN
  • Essentially, they are attempting to dichotomize the environmental movement between hopeless anti-modern romantic yuppies, engaged in symbolic activities, and the sober modernists (exemplified by themselves) who celebrate and promote economic expansion as the only real way to address environmental degradation. Joseph Romm: Memo to Media: Don't be Suckered by Bad Analyses from the Breakthrough Institute
  • Surely the hipster yuppies and rich old fogeys will appreciate the urban artistic expression dignifying the view from the windows of their posh homes. You Know Where to Find Me
  • The real reason why liberal yuppie elitist Jews hate Sarah so much and make so many snarky comments about her is that she’s succeeded despite a Harvard-Princeton-Yale degree, despite a wonkish sensibility, despite a neo-colonialist tourist roquet view of the world. Matthew Yglesias » Palin and the Jews
  • Where once there were thriving communities with neat rows of terraced houses there are now large, soulless sink estates pockmarked with yuppie designer nightmares thrown up in the eighties.
  • They created the teenager , the yuppie, the baby boomer, the singleton and the metrosexual.
  • North of the famous commercial area, the Loop, converted factory lofts now house art galleries and yuppie advertising agencies.
  • When I got downstairs, a prosperous-looking yuppie was waiting on our doorstep. DEAD BEAT
  • Yuppies are a prime target group for marketing strategies.
  • As I entered the premises, I was instantly engulfed in the warm glow of scores of happy yuppies, slumming aristocrats, homesick business-travelers and a contingent of restaurant critics.
  • Besides OFWs, the profile of homebuyers is diversifying to include the so-called yuppies who are employed in fast-moving technology companies as well as international finance firms, not to mention the moneyed individuals-both native as well as foreign-who have learned to invest their surplus capital in real estate. Latest News
  • Every once in a while there will be a fad for something-like the present yuppie cupcake business- trading on some sort of mix of nostalgia and camp, but for the most part, there's that unfortunate association with junkiness. Cake
  • It included a photo of a "No yuppies" tag captioned "Despite the bounty, free speech still reigns in the 47 Ward. Chicago Reader
  • The Porsche 911 reminds me of the worst parts of the yuppie era.
  • It was 1971, well before the word yuppie had been coined, or wide acceptance of the principle that monetary success and value were synonyms. A Happy Marriage
  • This can be a very tough area - yuppies and artists mixing it with the desperate homeless and the families on welfare.
  • Across the street, half a dozen guys spilled out of a yuppie bar, two of them mouthing off at each other, the others watching. NEW YORK DEAD
  • When I got downstairs, a prosperous-looking yuppie was waiting on our doorstep. DEAD BEAT
  • When I got downstairs, a prosperous-looking yuppie was waiting on our doorstep. DEAD BEAT
  • This was the rise of the baby boom generation - and young upwardly mobile professionals, known as yuppies.
  • The rows of motorbikes parked in front of the toddy shop betrays its large patronage among the yuppie crowd.
  • Mr. Philbrick, who lives around the corner from Ms. Thayer, called the remodeled homes in the neighborhood "perfect embodiments of some yuppie nightmare. Living History in Nantucket
  • The second group of tenants consists of what I call the yuppies: younger professional people — stockbrokers and journalists and attorneys. Big Deal: How I Do It My Way
  • There were even people playing football in the yuppie village this evening.
  • Perhaps that was you, the pudgy little yuppie-boy, who wouldn't budge even an inch to let me get a drink at the bar?
  • That does seem to be the important push these days - convincing people that sustainable food, clothing, practices etc. are more mainstream than the traditional image of unwashed hippies eating lentils while wearing hemp in their off-the-grid log cabin - or the more modern but still unappealing yuppie couple who ride bicycles everywhere, use cloth diapers and recycle their dishwater, and eat tofurky. Stylish and sustainable
  • Though it mostly consisted of what one would have called yuppies in another time... SF Connect 2: We're Doers Not Critics
  • Even while electrifying the cosmopolite yuppies with hard rock, heavy metal and thrash metal, he has pop and slow rock numbers in plenty in his quiver.
  • Across the street, half a dozen guys spilled out of a yuppie bar, two of them mouthing off at each other, the others watching. NEW YORK DEAD
  • Also known as yupster (yuppie + hipster), yindie (yuppie + indie), and alterna-yuppie. Archive 2006-04-01
  • Or dumping enough toxic plastic waste into the ocean that it forms huge islands of yuck as far as the eye can see so Yuppies can drink pints of filtered tap water in throw-away bottles just to prove how Yuppie-fied they are. Channeling Religious Impulses
  • This attracted the yuppies (and the liberal artsy types), who have been slowly gentrifying the town for the past 20 odd years.
  • `They keep putting us off with murmurings of entrepreneurs and quick-buck merchants -- yuppie treason, someone called it. THE LAST RAVEN
  • He was disappointed in her choice of restaurant, a noisy, yuppie hang-out, the sort of place where design took precedence over comfort. YELLOW BIRD
  • Get ride of the entitled yuppie scum & self important egotists … Gilbert, where the buck are you from, california? new york? jeeze … Statesman - AP Sports
  • Still, it won't the the only thing on that peninsula that's becoming a rich person's plaything, judging by the flash cars purring in and out of the yuppie village.
  • However, with the addition of an arcade of brand-name boutiques, the Raffles' former aristocratic hauteur seems to have been traded for a sort of self-conscious post-yuppie consumerism.
  • Look you oik, either you pay up or we'll turn over your plot to a local yuppie who really deserves it.
  • They used to be called nouveau riche, then yuppies, then something else - yet now they are so prevalent, what do you call them? KIDS!
  • Twenty years later, yuppies all over the world will pay fortunes for any old studio described by overimaginative Realtors as “lofts,” but back then they were cold spaces in deserted and often undesirable parts of town. The Pirate’s Dilemma
  • I requested it on a whim — since I thought this sort of pleasantly mellow, yuppieish music would be good for the aborted magazine column’s readership. 2007 February : Scrubbles.net
  • The dialogue is far from special as all the oiks talk like Ali G, and our yuppies talk in cliché and use words like "brewski". DVD Times
  • Crack culture made the inner city a perfect setting for crime dramas, while there was a general acknowledgment that black yuppies aka buppies were a market worth tapping. Nelson George: Black Hollywood: 1991 vs. 2011
  • The suburbs too are spinning their capitalist webs, ensnaring yuppies and college punks.
  • The vast majority of its members playacting as class warriors are well-heeled yuppies. The Sun
  • You get a load of yuppie petrolheads in fast cars [who] career across a series of foreign countries, dodging indigenous police forces and smashing speed limits.
  • And for the hammerers and welders, riveters and panel beaters, shipwrights and stevedores slaving away daily, they can gaze at those portions of the docks turned into yuppie havens and dream of perhaps, one day, moving up and in.
  • Imagine a 50-foot-tall pair of what we once called yuppies, stepping forward in the familiar manner of the lawn jockey (an ante-bellum lawn ornament that sensitive rich people began replacing in the late 1980s with concrete geese). Dispatch.com: RSS
  • Tens of thousands of people now live and work in Docklands, rather more yuppie financial types than the swarthy dockers of old.
  • Club Med is the renowned retreat for lustful yuppies.
  • But they have fallen into the clutches of certain people not as desirable as the Yuppie overman.
  • It used to be only the City yuppie, but now most people can afford a mobile phone.
  • I don't know if this is ‘yuppie,’ but I only drink microbrews or imported beer.
  • Grunge has been a recurrent theme in fashion since the early 1990s, when rockers like Cobain transformed kilts, moth-eaten sweaters and lumberjack plaids into the insignia of yuppie revolt.
  • He was disappointed in her choice of restaurant, a noisy, yuppie hang-out, the sort of place where design took precedence over comfort. YELLOW BIRD

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