How to Use upmarket in a Sentence

upmarket

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• Today Lai lives in a white, gated house in an upmarket nook of Kowloon.
  — Jenni Marsh, CNN, 27 Aug. 2019
• In the first episode, Wells is all set to sell off her youngest daughter to the highest bidder and move to an upmarket townhouse.
  — Viv Groskop, Newsweek, 21 Mar. 2017
• And this is an upmarket neighborhood in the center of town.
  — CBS News, 9 Oct. 2022
• But for now, these upmarket experiences point to the way that wine sales have evolved.
  — Esther Mobley, San Francisco Chronicle, 20 June 2021
• ReaganRepub2 Can the rich and powerful keep the club out of their upmarket neighborhood?
  — BostonGlobe.com, 4 May 2018
• Just as burgers are getting an upmarket makeover, some of the U.K.’s best chefs will compete for the title of Britain’s best hot dog next week.
  — Megan Hess, Bloomberg.com, 1 Sep. 2017
• But even decades ago, the house sold for less than similar properties in the same upmarket area.
  — Ellen James Martin, courant.com, 10 July 2019
• All of which seems to suggest that all the classy, literate, upmarket crooks have thrown in the towel and moved on to other pursuits.
  — Joe Queenan, WSJ, 17 Mar. 2022
• Despite the upmarket glossy finish, the cut is remarkably easy to style.
  — Elle Turner, Glamour, 19 Oct. 2021
• As reported by The Sun, the 26-year-old was attacked in the capital's upmarket suburb of Cocody.
  — SI.com, 8 Oct. 2017
• At a branch of an upmarket grocery store, Keells, there was plenty of fresh produce and bulk grains, although prices have tripled since April.
  — New York Times, 11 July 2022
• Mitchells Plain had 140 killings, while central Cape Town — home to upmarket restaurants, galleries and hotels — had just eight.
  — Kimon De Greef, BostonGlobe.com, 13 Aug. 2019
• After all, Tim was in an upmarket suburb of Muscat, an area where the country’s upper class lived.
  — Katie Bain, Billboard, 19 Jan. 2022
• That's a lot of scratch for a car that doesn't have an upmarket interior and is lacking in safety features.
  — Brian Wong, USA TODAY, 16 Feb. 2018
• The brand is too expensive to be mass market, but isn’t perceived to be as upmarket as Louis Vuitton or Gucci.
  — Carol Ryan, WSJ, 30 Sep. 2022
• At the same time, these elements are among the upmarket touches that catch the eyes of traditional buyers.
  — Csaba Csere, Car and Driver, 9 Feb. 2023
• His family had run an upmarket menswear store near the Rialto Bridge in Venice for nearly three decades.
  — Julia Buckley, CNT, 14 Aug. 2017
• Once a fixture of Roppongi, the festival moved to its venue in the upmarket Ginza district last year.
  — Abid Rahman, The Hollywood Reporter, 24 Oct. 2022
• Cheaper items can appear more upmarket when wrapped in plastic, Hendry writes.
  — Emiko Jozuka, CNN, 29 July 2020
• Mitchells Plain had 140 murders, while central Cape Town — home to upmarket restaurants, galleries and hotels — had just eight.
  — New York Times, 13 Aug. 2019
• Have your cab drop you off in front of the erstwhile Rhythm House building, a landmark that now houses the flagship of upmarket menswear label Kunal Rawal.
  — Sarah Khan, Condé Nast Traveler, 9 Sep. 2019
• With Volkswagen preparing to leave the Beetle behind, the brand used the Passat/Dasher to push its way upmarket.
  — Joe Lorio, Car and Driver, 25 Jan. 2022
• Its sleek styling, upmarket interior and a blizzard of amenities earn it my nod for runner-up.
  — Tom Voelk, The Seattle Times, 12 Sep. 2017
• Genesis is the upmarket wannabe subsidiary of South Korea’s Hyundai.
  — Neil Winton, Forbes, 24 June 2022
• Windsor is filled with upmarket restaurants, tea rooms, quaint pubs and fancy stores selling kitchen goods, antiques and pricey clothing.
  — Kim Hjelmgaard, USA TODAY, 14 Feb. 2018
• It is well known among festival attendees that escorts ply their trade in the lobbies of Cannes’ upmarket hotels.
  — Farah Nayeri, New York Times, 15 May 2018
• In spring, 2008, Magnussen’s body was found abandoned and half-buried under rubble in the basement of an upmarket apartment block in central London.
  — Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 11 Mar. 2022
• The champagne — or at least, some very upmarket prosecco — continued to flow.
  — New York Times, 25 May 2021
• The companies plan to keep both the Sainsbury and Asda brands, which serve different customers, the former being more upmarket.
  — Saabira Chaudhuri, WSJ, 30 Apr. 2018
• His dinners often featured delicacies that were exotic even by upmarket Roman standards, such as camels’ heels and flamingos’ brains.
  — Mary Beard, The New Yorker, 26 June 2023

Last Updated: 6 Nov 2024