uptown

Example Sentences

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She’d gone to a handful of parties there not long after her first death, when she was always ravenous and East Tenth Street was “uptown.”

From Literature

This year’s largest stock sale wasn’t on the New York Stock Exchange or its uptown rival, the Nasdaq Stock Market.

From The Wall Street Journal

But I read in the newspaper that Mr. Gorringe is having serious problems moving Cleopatra’s Needle, so I had to go uptown to see what was going on.

From Literature

Hedge fund guys such as himself worked uptown and so exited Grand Central to the north, where taxis appeared haphazardly and out of nowhere to meet them, like farm trout rising to corn kernels.

From Literature

When his work was staged for the uptown set at Lincoln Center, seats emptied.

From Los Angeles Times