How to Use city slicker in a Sentence

city slicker

noun
  • Next to the country bumpkin, the city slicker comes up short.
    — Los Angeles Times, 13 Sep. 2019
  • As modeled by this city slicker, turn to a crochet top for a textured finish.
    — Laura Jackson, Vogue, 21 Mar. 2025
  • Workaholic city slicker Michael isn’t planning to be in Ohio for long.
    — Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 6 Sep. 2024
  • The big city slickers are sometimes snobs — yes, there are snobs in the art world — and sometimes don’t give the small places a fair shake.
    — Brian T. Allen, National Review, 14 Sep. 2019
  • Last but not least, Queens is home to Rockaway Beach, where city slickers go to soak up the sun.
    — Lauren Dana Ellman, Travel + Leisure, 22 July 2024
  • For most city slickers, a good old-fashioned bean Boot is classic and versatile enough to get you through the winter.
    — Todd Plummer, Robb Report, 2 Nov. 2023
  • Early in the show, Thornton’s Tommy takes a city slicker lady lawyer out into the oil fields.
    — Stephen Rodrick, Rolling Stone, 9 Mar. 2025
  • Yet despite this, rural Africans are more likely to vote than city slickers, by 77% to 67%.
    — The Economist, 22 Feb. 2020
  • Another big Texas ranch has traded but the buyer isn’t the usually city slicker or wannabe cowboy.
    — Steve Brown, Dallas News, 13 Feb. 2020
  • Babe McCarthy, the country-boy coach, enjoying out-slicking the city slickers.
    — NOLA.com, 20 Oct. 2017
  • As a New Yorker for many years now, Irina Shayk has perfected the art of city slicker style.
    — Christian Allaire, Vogue, 19 Nov. 2024
  • Maybe so, but this is one city slicker who would like to have seen the background of Dusty, Ruby, and Callie colored in more.
    — Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 27 Jan. 2025
  • Metal-head friends Wayne and Garth sell their basement cable-access TV show to a city slicker.
    — Los Angeles Times, 4 Oct. 2019
  • Metal-head friends Wayne and Garth sell their basement cable-access TV show to a city slicker.
    — Los Angeles Times, 26 Mar. 2021
  • Metal-head friends Wayne and Garth sell their basement cable-access TV show to a city slicker.
    — Los Angeles Times, 13 Sep. 2019
  • The pack is completed by old Luo (Yi Ping), a local guide who's on hand to help and monitor these city slickers.
    — Clarence Tsui, The Hollywood Reporter, 23 May 2018
  • Everybody knows each other there, news travels fast and city slickers — with their cynicism and logic and skepticism — rarely intrude.
    — Rene Rodriguez, Variety, 4 July 2024
  • There are liberals and conservatives, cowboys and city slickers, white folks, brown folks, black folks and every shade in between wearing cowboy boots.
    — Robert Dean, ajc, 2 Sep. 2017
  • Using video footage from divers and camera traps, the scientists were able to observe the social behavior of city slicker octopuses.
    — Annalee Newitz, Ars Technica, 27 Sep. 2017
  • Pat Tyler’s homespun frocks, as well as smart suits for the city slickers of Asheville, mesh beautifully with the warp and woof of the people of bluegrass country.
    — Joanne Engelhardt, The Mercury News, 16 Sep. 2019
  • This and a sandwich from the warming bin of a gas station is an all-star breakfast for a blue-collar hoss or a city slicker who’s on safari in the hinterlands of America.
    — Pete Cottell, WIRED, 8 Aug. 2024
  • The décor is a more elevated offering for the Catskills and its stylish cocktail bar attracts a sophisticated crowd of city slickers.
    — Emma Harding, Vogue, 28 Oct. 2024
  • There is one thing most of us, even city slickers, can do to connect to nature, reduce our demands on the Earth and even produce some of our food, and that’s to plant and tend a garden, however small.
    — Adrian Higgins, idahostatesman, 1 Nov. 2017
  • From outdoor cafe tables (such as this one) to compact outdoor sofas and more, Urban Outfitters is a one-stop shop destination for city slickers.
    — Isiah Magsino, Town & Country, 6 July 2023
  • Eleven years later, city slickers and megastars alike continue to flock to this West of their dreams, drawn by the rustic-chic interiors and overall insane level of pampering.
    — Priscilla Eakeley, Town & Country, 30 Nov. 2016
  • For city slickers, the historic Hotel Alex Johnson is in downtown Rapid City (1 hour from each park), with modern rooms and a rooftop bar.
    — Robert Annis, Midwest Living, 14 May 2026
  • Pfeiffer plays Stacy Clyburn, a city slicker who moves her family from New York City to Montana after tragedy strikes.
    — William Earl, Variety, 14 Mar. 2026
  • For all his flourishes and meanderings, Wolfe set it down as solemnly and inoffensively as an anthropologist and plainly enough for a city slicker to grasp.
    — Bruce Henderson, charlotteobserver, 25 May 2018
  • Cavanagh stars as Jack, the new lead detective of the local Police Department and former city slicker who is trying to acclimate to the quirks of small-town life.
    — Denise Petski, Deadline, 28 May 2026
  • Over the months since Baldwin was recharged earlier this year, the defense had quibbled over and over about evidence, discovery and tactics with what has sometimes seen like a battle of locals versus city slickers.
    — Dominic Patten, Deadline, 12 July 2024

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