How to Use city slicker in a Sentence

city slicker

noun

• Next to the country bumpkin, the city slicker comes up short.
  — Los Angeles Times, 13 Sep. 2019
• Send the pampered city slicker sports columnist off to the pig races?
  — Jason Gay, WSJ, 11 Oct. 2018
• The big city slickers are sometimes snobs — yes, there are snobs in the art world — and sometimes don’t give the small places a fair shake.
  — Brian T. Allen, National Review, 14 Sep. 2019
• Yet despite this, rural Africans are more likely to vote than city slickers, by 77% to 67%.
  — The Economist, 22 Feb. 2020
• For most city slickers, a good old-fashioned bean Boot is classic and versatile enough to get you through the winter.
  — Todd Plummer, Robb Report, 2 Nov. 2023
• The pack is completed by old Luo (Yi Ping), a local guide who's on hand to help and monitor these city slickers.
  — Clarence Tsui, The Hollywood Reporter, 23 May 2018
• Metal-head friends Wayne and Garth sell their basement cable-access TV show to a city slicker.
  — Los Angeles Times, 26 Mar. 2021
• Metal-head friends Wayne and Garth sell their basement cable-access TV show to a city slicker.
  — Los Angeles Times, 4 Oct. 2019
• Pat Tyler’s homespun frocks, as well as smart suits for the city slickers of Asheville, mesh beautifully with the warp and woof of the people of bluegrass country.
  — Joanne Engelhardt, The Mercury News, 16 Sep. 2019
• Babe McCarthy, the country-boy coach, enjoying out-slicking the city slickers.
  — NOLA.com, 20 Oct. 2017
• There was a 1940s feeling to the coach: the Polish squad leader of a bunch of American types--country boys, city slickers, smart guys, dumbasses.
  — Will Blythe, Esquire, 1 Apr. 2010
• Another big Texas ranch has traded but the buyer isn’t the usually city slicker or wannabe cowboy.
  — Steve Brown, Dallas News, 13 Feb. 2020
• There is one thing most of us, even city slickers, can do to connect to nature, reduce our demands on the Earth and even produce some of our food, and that’s to plant and tend a garden, however small.
  — Adrian Higgins, idahostatesman, 1 Nov. 2017
• The ace gunfighter Tom Doniphon, played by John Wayne, scoffs at him for being a city slicker who doesn’t understand how things work out here on the frontier, and advises him to get a gun.
  — Kyle Smith, National Review, 25 Nov. 2019
• With its sleek and modern design, the Mayfair pieces are made with chic city slickers in mind: think drawers with matte finishes and sofas with curved edges.
  — Vogue, 16 Apr. 2018
• Second on deck is Smoke Show, a cooler take on fall shades including a shimmery peach, city slicker sparkly black, and a cozy matte burnt cranberry.
  — Macaela MacKenzie, Allure, 14 Sep. 2017
• Using video footage from divers and camera traps, the scientists were able to observe the social behavior of city slicker octopuses.
  — Annalee Newitz, Ars Technica, 27 Sep. 2017
• In a powerful moment, a city slicker tries to tell Bill about seeing 30 coyotes (an unlikely number) and when the man offers to shoot the animals for him, Bill sternly demures.
  — Nathan Deuel, latimes.com, 10 May 2018
• There are liberals and conservatives, cowboys and city slickers, white folks, brown folks, black folks and every shade in between wearing cowboy boots.
  — Robert Dean, ajc, 2 Sep. 2017
• This was a joyous party where coastal French folk, Southern boot-scooters, big city slickers, and SoCal beach bums were more-than-eager to find a common, mezcal-laced, not-too-cool-for-school ground on the dance floor nearly the entire night.
  — Andrew Bevan, Vogue, 14 Aug. 2018
• Eleven years later, city slickers and megastars alike continue to flock to this West of their dreams, drawn by the rustic-chic interiors and overall insane level of pampering.
  — Priscilla Eakeley, Town & Country, 30 Nov. 2016
• From outdoor cafe tables (such as this one) to compact outdoor sofas and more, Urban Outfitters is a one-stop shop destination for city slickers.
  — Isiah Magsino, Town & Country, 6 July 2023
• Everybody knows each other there, news travels fast and city slickers — with their cynicism and logic and skepticism — rarely intrude.
  — Rene Rodriguez, Variety, 4 July 2024
• For all his flourishes and meanderings, Wolfe set it down as solemnly and inoffensively as an anthropologist and plainly enough for a city slicker to grasp.
  — Bruce Henderson, charlotteobserver, 25 May 2018
• The spiritually reforming power of farm life is a city slicker's fantasy.
  — Perry Stein, Washington Post, 23 Jan. 2018
• Earth Day 1970 achieved a rare political alignment, enlisting support from Republicans and Democrats, rich and poor, city slickers and farmers, tycoons and labor leaders.
  — Deb Kiner | [e-mail], oregonlive, 22 Apr. 2019
• This is a practice for the University of Vermont Woodsmen—a club team that competes in burly events involving saws and axes and other timber items that city slickers like myself should use only under heavy supervision, or not at all.
  — Jason Gay, WSJ, 15 Nov. 2018
• Thinking Urban-rural divide: Are city slickers or countryfolk better at navigation?
  — Big Think, 24 June 2024
• Things are especially different between city slickers and suburbanites, as urban living lowers carbon emissions by 20 percent.
  — Eleanor Cummins, Ars Technica, 28 Oct. 2017

Last Updated: 24 Dec 2024