How to Use hipster in a Sentence

hipster

noun
  • How did the hipster burn his mouth?
    — Hallie Milstein, Southern Living, 2 May 2026
  • This is the true soccer hipster’s dark horse.
    — Dieter Kurtenbach, Mercury News, 11 June 2026
  • Some hipster dudes in a car were passing by and yelled, 'So hot!
    — Emily Cronin For Trending Ny, Marie Claire, 15 Sep. 2014
  • And that's probably where the whole thing with the hipster comes in.
    — Luke O'Neil, Esquire, 20 Jan. 2016
  • By night, the local pubs and nightlife scene draws both hipster and local crowds.
    — Natasha Huang Smith, Harper's BAZAAR, 14 July 2017
  • All of which looked effortlessly cool on the frames of the hipster crowd.
    — Max Berlinger, Los Angeles Times, 15 Aug. 2019
  • Getting dissed by the alt-weekly of record could be a hipster’s nightmare.
    — David Fear, Rolling Stone, 15 Mar. 2026
  • Everyone in there has their hipster hat and their very skinny jeans, and doesn't have any kids.
    — Josh Wigler, The Hollywood Reporter, 26 May 2017
  • Sure to further satisfy hipsters, a food hall and lofts are coming to the same street.
    — Megan Lisagor Stoessell, BostonGlobe.com, 13 June 2019
  • And the antitrust hipsters need to know that break-ups are not stable solutions.
    — The Economist, 20 Jan. 2018
  • Owens will play Sophia, a Bushwick hipster that works in the office.
    — Breanna Bell, Variety, 15 Dec. 2022
  • From there, drive to Sebastopol for a wine hipster haven and a garagiste winery.
    — Urmila Ramakrishnan, SFChronicle.com, 27 Oct. 2017
  • Maybe – maybe – the hipsters knew that Italy would be a real force in this tournament.
    — SI.com, 4 July 2019
  • Aside from the hipster-chic design, Zab’s hot sauce uses a rare blend of datil peppers.
    — Vanessa Powell, Men's Health, 9 Dec. 2022
  • 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
  • NOKturne has a hipster vibe for anyone looking for a chill place to eat.
    — Donnie Lopez, Chron, 21 May 2021
  • Dexter went from sheltered son of a doctor to brooding child hipster who left home early to tour with big bands.
    — Celina Pereira, Los Angeles Times, 28 Jan. 2026
  • 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
  • This is the stuff that even a French hipster would recognize as très Brooklyn.
    — Hugh Garvey, Condé Nast Traveler, 23 Mar. 2018
  • At the Nashville hot chicken joint down the street, hipsters brave a line stretching nearly a city block.
    — Cindy Chang, latimes.com, 3 Sep. 2017
  • Slackers aren’t a monolith, these films suggest, and their creed is more than just a hipster variant of laziness.
    — Justin Chang, New Yorker, 27 Sep. 2025
  • When done right, the cafecito will be sweet but not cloying, covered in a rich, creamy head that’ll stick to your hipster mustache — and your ribs.
    — Carlos Frías, miamiherald, 29 Mar. 2018
  • The song came over the loudspeaker and the room — parents, kids, hipsters — erupted in singing and laughter.
    — David Bauder, Los Angeles Times, 23 Dec. 2024
  • Natasha Zinko channeled hipster party vibes with low-rise jeans, bootcut jeans and dirty washes.
    — Angela Velasquez, Sourcing Journal, 29 Sep. 2025
  • So by the time the hipsters in the national media picked up on Devo, we were fully formed.
    — Michael Tedder, SPIN, 5 May 2026
  • The hipster in me can’t pass up a noisy cloudscape, but the text placement is also extremely pleasing.
    — Emily Temple august 29, Literary Hub, 29 Aug. 2025
  • These were the cool kids and hipsters, the desperate and burned out, the visionaries and druggies.
    — Jerry Saltz, Vulture, 12 Feb. 2025
  • If the cowboy spirit is all self-reliance and hard work, where do hipsters and $10k-a-month apartments fit in?
    — Allyson Reedy, The Denver Post, 20 Sep. 2024
  • In the spring, the Reykjavík Festival filled the hall again with new music and more hipsters.
    — Mark Swed, latimes.com, 29 June 2017
  • 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

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