On this page you'll find 10+ example sentences with Yuppie. Discover the meaning, synonyms such as professional and how to use the word correctly in a sentence.
Yuppie meaning
A young upwardly mobile urban professional person with an affluent lifestyle.
Synonyms of Yuppie
Using Yuppie
- The main meaning on this page is: A young upwardly mobile urban professional person with an affluent lifestyle.
- Useful related words include: professional, professional person.
- In the example corpus, yuppie often appears in combinations such as: mission yuppie, yuppie eradication, the yuppie.
Context around Yuppie
- Average sentence length in these examples: 22.9 words
- Position in the sentence: 1 start, 7 middle, 4 end
- Sentence types: 12 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Yuppie
- In this selection, "yuppie" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 22.9 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, mission, strong, typical, eradication, era and glam stand out and add context to how "yuppie" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include the mission yuppie eradication project and 1980s when yuppie materialism was. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "yuppie" sits close to words such as aadi, aakash and aayush, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with yuppie
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
You sound like a typical yuppie. (6 words)
Gay bars are more important than yuppie wine bars. (9 words)
In response, a group called the Mission Yuppie Eradication Project emerged sometime around 1998. (14 words)
As The New York Times reported: "Indeed, most of the mourners who attended the formal memorial at Temple Emanuel here were more yuppie than yippie and there were more rep ties than ripped jeans among the crowd.. (37 words)
During the dot-com boom of the late 1990s, the gentrification of San Francisco's predominantly working class Mission District led some long-term neighborhood residents to create what they called the "Mission Yuppie Eradication Project. (36 words)
The vests satisfy a trifecta of trends, invoking a certain level of gender neutrality, while playing to the yuppie revival movement and an overall return to dressier codes following years of casual influence. (33 words)
Example sentences (12)
In response, a group called the Mission Yuppie Eradication Project emerged sometime around 1998.
Yet Harron and her regular screenwriter Guinevere Turner turned the ultraviolent tale into a razor-sharp satire of male entitlement and the yuppie era.
The sleek visual of the cream-crocodile Mercury is at once post-war and yuppie glam, and its features straddle the ages too.
It was also the 1980s, when yuppie materialism was going mainstream (track lighting; aerobics; European shower gel; decorators).
The vests satisfy a trifecta of trends, invoking a certain level of gender neutrality, while playing to the yuppie revival movement and an overall return to dressier codes following years of casual influence.
Multiple residents mentioned a strong “yuppie vs. townie” tension that certainly isn’t benefitting anyone.
You sound like a typical yuppie.
At the Synagoga Cafe, yuppie patrons sip pricey cappuccino on tables that are aligned with a platform on which worshippers would climb to open the wooden Torah ark.
Gay bars are more important than yuppie wine bars.
As The New York Times reported: "Indeed, most of the mourners who attended the formal memorial at Temple Emanuel here were more yuppie than yippie and there were more rep ties than ripped jeans among the crowd..
During the dot-com boom of the late 1990s, the gentrification of San Francisco's predominantly working class Mission District led some long-term neighborhood residents to create what they called the "Mission Yuppie Eradication Project.
Now married to Alison Grey of the Westport Greys, a very wealthy family involved in real estate, and he is considered a yuppie scum and a sell-out by his ex-roommates.
Common combinations with yuppie
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts: