uptown
Example Sentences
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He gleefully brought the startled players together with the Spanish Harlem Orchestra, an uptown salsa and jazz band, for concerts at Lincoln Center and Washington Heights.
From Los Angeles Times • May 19, 2026
Ahmad, his wife, and his two daughters eventually settled in uptown Oklahoma City, four miles northwest of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building.
From Slate • Apr. 19, 2026
"Hoffman, me, my brother, three or four other actors and singers had a place on 107th and Broadway in Manhattan, uptown," Duvall told GQ in 2014.
From Barron's • Feb. 16, 2026
In October, Texas troubadour Charley Crockett, who has derided the trap-inflected “bro country” coming out of Nashville, played a solo set at Lucinda’s before moving uptown for a three-night residency at Café Carlyle.
From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 23, 2025
A girl pointed toward the uptown side of the park.
From "145th Street: Short Stories" by Walter Dean Myers
