How to Use hipness in a Sentence

hipness

noun

• There’s a lot of flash and hipness, snake oil and marketing.
  — Washington Post, 26 Aug. 2019
• The movie’s aggressive hipness can be a turnoff at times.
  — Noel Murray, Los Angeles Times, 29 Apr. 2022
• For all its slick, bluesy hipness, though, the show is devoid of real feeling.
  — Peter Marks, Washington Post, 6 June 2019
• For the past few years, Y2K-era aesthetics have edged back into hipness.
  — Spencer Kornhaber, The Atlantic, 25 May 2021
• Perhaps the only hope to end the teenagers’ winking love of the Juul is to expand the demographic out of its hipness.
  — New York Times, 7 Apr. 2018
• The city also has gained a new hipness factor with the arrival of several trendy restaurants, bars and coffee shops.
  — Jc Reindl, Detroit Free Press, 7 June 2019
• And setting a higher bar for hipness can lead to results that fall short and come across as tragically strained.
  — Seth Colter Walls, New York Times, 10 June 2018
• Rudd also proves his hipness by kicking off a new TikTok challenge.
  — Maggie O'Neill, Health.com, 15 Sep. 2020
• Black Americans have set a standard of hipness that has prevailed for more than a century.
  — Jihan Forbes, Allure, 19 May 2022
• But after a few years and national articles featuring the scrappy post-K hipness of the bars and cafes of Bywater, the rolling bags arrived.
  — Anne Gisleson, Curbed, 23 May 2018
• Another jab at the eternal un-hipness of Manilow because…why, exactly?
  — Atlanta Life, ajc, 28 July 2017
• But exclusivity is trumped by vibrancy and access and hipness that comes with this.
  — Keiko Morris, WSJ, 15 Oct. 2017
• Twitter feed took a stab at local color and hipness by mentioning Karl the Fog, some San Franciscans were deeply offended.
  — Scott Ostler, SFChronicle.com, 8 Aug. 2020
• From its natural beauty and bikeability to the Portlandia brand of over-earnest hipness, Portland has plenty of reasons to be listed among the most livable cities in the country.
  — Patrick Sisson, Curbed, 26 June 2018
• Home movies and archival clips do their part in painting the picture, but Slater’s decision to cut in modern-day footage of Jakob Dylan in peacoat and shades wandering the same locations strains for a reach-across-time hipness.
  — Robert Abele, Detroit Free Press, 27 June 2019
• ELP disbanded in 1979, as progressive-rock lost both its commercial prominence and cachet of hipness following the rise of punk, disco and New Wave.
  — George Varga, sandiegouniontribune.com, 24 Aug. 2017
• Bakersfield’s emerging frontier hipness can be seen in the Padre Hotel, a historic landmark with a red-neon sign that is the primary feature of the evening skyline in a city that has always grown out, never up.
  — Scott Wilson, Washington Post, 19 July 2019
• Michael rejects most of the assumptions of our modern consumerist condition and hence rejects its defining registers of hipness and irony.
  — Kyle Smith, National Review, 14 June 2019
• But it’s long been commercialized by corporate brands, by art galleries tapping the subculture for its hipness and by artists themselves.
  — Deborah Vankin, latimes.com, 22 Mar. 2018
• Let others stay in the Marriott; this conventioneer was all-in returning to the red-splashed hipness of the lobby, bar, coffee shop, and restaurant, and grand staircase shrouded in 30-foot-tall velvet curtains.
  — Anthony Flint, BostonGlobe.com, 17 July 2019
• But a confident, breezy hipness can just as easily be found in Shulman’s orchestral writing.
  — New York Times, 15 July 2021
• Like pollsters and advance men, Team Obama shrewdly suss out what appeals to the media and what can be sold as hipness — the same way pet social policies are promoted during election campaigns.
  — Armond White, National Review, 22 Dec. 2021
• For the festival, the partnership is aimed at pulling Cannes forward into the 21st century, lending it a sheen of techno-hipness and ideally attracting younger film fans.
  — Todd Spangler, Variety, 11 May 2022
• The company hired local artists to bring a sense of hipness to rooms once filled with telecommunications equipment and even kept a retro feel by preserving a room full of ancient mainframe computers.
  — The Washington Post, The Denver Post, 12 June 2017
• Performing at Coachella could instantly confer a cachet of hipness on artists.
  — George Varga, San Diego Union-Tribune, 13 Apr. 2022
• What’s at the heart of this impulse isn’t just that desire to see yourself, but a longing for secondhand hipness, for clout — a yearning that may be juvenile, but one that’s nevertheless powerful.
  — Alison Willmore, Vulture, 5 Mar. 2021
• Traces of the space’s former life as the floor of a factory building—wrapped beams, a concrete pillar, great, gridded windows—contribute a sophisticated hipness.
  — Lauren Joseph, WSJ, 13 Jan. 2022
• Elizabeth Ai’s upcoming documentary New Wave tells the story about this world of Vietnamese hipness.
  — Thuc Nguyen, refinery29.com, 21 May 2021
• Funny Games and Holy Motors posters suggest artistic confusion passing for hipness.
  — Armond White, National Review, 4 June 2021
• Such properties tend to have staff with cool attitudes; hipness reinterpreted as coldness.
  — Lauren Mowery, Forbes, 28 Sep. 2021

Last Updated: 17 Nov 2024