How to Use urbane in a Sentence

urbane

adjective

• The dialogue is witty and urbane.
• In the Boathouse, the snack bar offers the same mix of the down-home and urbane.
  — Alec Scott, Sunset Magazine, 22 Jan. 2018
• Fry appeared on the screen, a tall, urbane man with a zigzag nose.
  — David Marchese, New York Times, 2 May 2021
• For the rest of us, what shines on is Becker’s lithe, urbane artistry.
  — Kyle Smith, National Review, 5 Sep. 2017
• The breakout star of the series was sassy, smart, urbane and flippant Lance Loud.
  — Tim Sommer, Billboard, 25 June 2019
• The silhouettes were urbane, with an arts and crafts edge.
  — Vanessa Friedman, New York Times, 2 Mar. 2018
• The design is crisp and urbane, to the extent that those words can apply to a place with the head of a Texas longhorn mounted on the wall.
  — Pete Wells, New York Times, 16 May 2017
• Franks’ sly, svelte songs drew from jazz, bossa nova, funk, urbane pop, soul and more.
  — George Varga, San Diego Union-Tribune, 21 June 2023
• The urbane detective ties a string of murders to spies seeking plans to a new bomber.
  — Ed Stockly, Los Angeles Times, 19 Mar. 2021
• As president, Ramaphosa, who has spent the past two decades in business and presents an urbane contrast to Zuma, may turn the tide.
  — Benjamin H. Bradlow, Washington Post, 14 Feb. 2018
• In this first book of poems, Ovid employed an urbane, ironic voice.
  — Esteban Berché, National Geographic, 26 Nov. 2019
• Courtly and urbane, Wilson was self-assured even as a child.
  — Marc Myers, WSJ, 13 Apr. 2018
• The former president is urbane, polyglot and out of touch.
  — The Economist, 17 May 2018
• Parant, a dignified man with urbane manners and a lilting Spanish accent, would have been the next captain of the San Juan.
  — Lance Wills, miamiherald, 11 Dec. 2017
• Back at Tracy Hills, Palmer says his team is taking pains to make sure the project is a new breed of greener and more urbane subdivision.
  — J.k. Dineen, SFChronicle.com, 20 Sep. 2019
• On-road, the Compass is not an off-road warrior like the Wrangler, nor an urbane sophisticate like the Grand Cherokee.
  — cleveland, 2 May 2020
• The more-urbane Ramaphosa will have to win over that rural constituency, along with those who defected from the party in recent years.
  — Kevin Sieff, Washington Post, 14 Feb. 2018
• Even before his divorce in 1959, Hefner sought to embody the Playboy image of the carefree, urbane man about town.
  — Matt Schudel, Alaska Dispatch News, 28 Sep. 2017
• Her parents had eloped because Ada Mae’s urbane parents disapproved of the prospect of ranch life for their daughter.
  — Linda Greenhouse, New York Times, 1 Dec. 2023
• One man starts in an Urkel costume, then quickly changes into something more urbane.
  — Hal Boedeker, OrlandoSentinel.com, 22 May 2017
• Murray’s Scrooge is more urbane than in most portrayals.
  — David L. Coddoncontributor, San Diego Union-Tribune, 15 Dec. 2022
• Industrial and spare, with an aluminum body wrapped in black, the tumbler evokes an urbane 20-something in a black turtleneck.
  — Luther Ray Abel, National Review, 22 Aug. 2021
• In the 20 plus years since, the fair’s helped transform Miami from a breezy beach town to a urbane cultural destination.
  — Ana María Caballero, Forbes, 29 Nov. 2023
• The restaurant earned fans in Cleveland and around the country for its fresh, locally sourced and eclectic menu, as well as its urbane aesthetic.
  — Eric Heisig, cleveland, 7 Feb. 2020
• The key to living large: rigorous editing and a richly urbane gray palette.
  — ​kathleen Hackett, House Beautiful, 26 May 2017
• Here, the double-soft combination of a pinwale shirt with jumbo-wale trousers makes a hardy waxed jacket look urbane enough for the office.
  — Kareem Rashed, Robb Report, 4 Dec. 2021
• Meanwhile, the rubber sole gives this urbane shoe some hard working street cred, making it an ideal day-to-night, weekend-to-weekday style.
  — Max Berlinger, GQ, 10 Jan. 2018
• Until the crash-landing, DeLillo is an urbane observer of the rituals of flight.
  — Dwight Garner, New York Times, 12 Oct. 2020
• De Sarno’s mission at Gucci is, in a way, to make the storied house a little bit more like his own: urbane, contemporary, and chic, with sensual hints of intrigue behind the doors.
  — Jason Horowitz, Vogue, 12 Jan. 2024
• In the stack of military uniforms piled in a corner and waiting to be mended, Khoury opens a window on the mindless piecework an urbane woman such as Afiya must undertake.
  — Peter Marks, Washington Post, 6 Mar. 2023

Last Updated: 13 Dec 2024