uptown
Example Sentences
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The 2007 opening of FX’s groundbreaking legal drama “Damages,” in which Byrne’s young lawyer, Ellen Parsons, flees an uptown New York apartment building in which something terrible has clearly happened, sparked all manner of conversation.
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 25, 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
When his work was staged for the uptown set at Lincoln Center, seats emptied.
From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 4, 2025
A girl pointed toward the uptown side of the park.
From "145th Street: Short Stories" by Walter Dean Myers
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
