How to Use yuppie in a Sentence

yuppie

noun
  • Her friends are just a bunch of yuppies.
  • Who’s to blame for the rise of the yuppie?
    — Literary Hub, 11 May 2026
  • At least some of the yuppies claimed the pace as a point of pride, even a thrill.
    — Molly Fischer, New Yorker, 15 June 2026
  • Yuppies have taken over his favorite bar.
    — Julian Lucas, New Yorker, 22 June 2026
  • This Christmas tale about a yuppie’s descent to skid row is pitch black.
    — Jody Rosen, Los Angeles Times, 14 Dec. 2020
  • These bankers and lawyers would form the core of New York’s rising class of yuppies.
    — Literary Hub, 15 May 2026
  • The city was on the verge of bankruptcy and the glamorous yuppie thing was a very small bubble.
    — Patrick Brzeski, The Hollywood Reporter, 9 Oct. 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
  • 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
  • This is probably how the hippies felt when the yuppies were moving in 50 years ago!
    — Connie Ogle, Miami Herald, 26 Jan. 2026
  • First artists, then yuppies and tech workers arrived, leaving a tide of displacement in their wake.
    — Julia Wick, Los Angeles Times, 6 May 2020
  • Yuppies, as they were called, were a real phenomenon.
    — Adam Gopnik, New Yorker, 12 Jan. 2026
  • Her roommate, back from her yuppie adventuring, walks in and joins the party.
    — Spencer Kornhaber, The Atlantic, 11 Mar. 2026
  • Why were yuppies suddenly gripped by a fever for investment banking?
    — Literary Hub, 15 May 2026
  • But Amazon has a strategy that may go beyond selling aged manchego to yuppies.
    — Daniel Gross, Slate Magazine, 16 June 2017
  • 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
  • Your yuppie sister doesn’t know Lou Reed from a broken dishwasher.
    — Hannah Seidlitz, Longreads, 10 Aug. 2020
  • Far more people hated yuppies, and everything the yuppie stood for, than wanted to be yuppies, of course.
    — Louis Menand, The New Yorker, 22 July 2024
  • An eager yuppie and his wife adopt a little boy, Junior, who’s totally out of control.
    — Los Angeles Times, 13 Sep. 2019
  • Others shun the store as an overpriced monument to yuppie indulgence.
    — Craig Giammona, chicagotribune.com, 19 June 2017
  • 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, 30 July 2025
  • 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
  • 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
  • Celine showed yuppie-friendly double-breasted jackets with gold buttons.
    — Jake Henry Smith, Glamour, 4 Feb. 2026
  • Convenience, freshness, a culture-hopping menu, and a yuppie gloss are what Blue Apron has to offer.
    — April Glaser, Slate Magazine, 20 July 2017
  • Before the yuppie era, a certain staid gentility prevailed.
    — Molly Fischer, New Yorker, 15 June 2026
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • Harron’s 2000 film is more pointed in its satire of yuppie culture than Ellis’s novel.
    — Constance Grady, Vox, 7 Dec. 2018

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