How to Use yuppie in a Sentence

yuppie

noun
Definition of yuppienext
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • Maybe that’s because yuppie is an insult directed at young professionals, and no one is really mad at people with nine-to-fives these days.
    — Tara Gonzalez, Harper's BAZAAR, 6 Feb. 2023
  • The communal spirit in the Dome was such that in the press box, jaded yuppies danced uninhibitedly with ushers and janitors.
    — J.r. Gonzales, Houston Chronicle, 27 Nov. 2019
  • While ballroom culture sizzled uptown, there was also the rise of the yuppie Trump era and the excess of a different kind coming together farther downtown.
    — Melissa Magsaysay, latimes.com, 12 July 2018
  • Despite those sterling credits, not to mention Meryl Streep and Jack Nicholson in the starring roles, the film is unambiguously atrocious, a boring slog through yuppie malaise.
    — Helen Rosner, The New Yorker, 24 June 2021

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