cosmopolite

Example Sentences

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It favored rural Germans and targeted supposed forces of modernity: liberal media members, Jews, cosmopolites.

From Washington Post

In one scene, the function of food as a status symbol for globe-trotting cosmopolites becomes clear.

From New York Times

That vaudevillian public disdain for East Coast intellectuals, Ivy League blue bloods, cosmopolites — all of it started with Nixon.

From New York Times

“I didn’t take kindly to him monsieuring me,” Lincoln thinks of a cosmopolite’s greeting.

From The New Yorker

Longtime cosmopolites often stop paying attention to the cityscapes around them; inured to their surroundings, they don’t bother to look up.

From New York Times