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Example sentences for "uptown"

Lexicographically close words:
upthrow; upthrown; upthrust; uptilted; uptorn; upturn; upturned; upturning; upturns; upward
  1. I seen Elenbogen in the subway this morning and he tells me Aaron goes around blowing about paying a thousand dollars to a professor uptown and he gives him a medicine which cures his cough completely.

  2. He was blinking at vacancy while his mind reverted to an afternoon call paid uptown by Mrs. Miriam Saphir.

  3. Max Fatkin visited a buyer at an uptown hotel on his way to the office the following morning, so that it was nearly nine before he entered his showroom.

  4. And if I don't get rid of 'em for you, understand me, you could got right uptown and tell Babette.

  5. Half an hour later Samuel Gembitz was undergoing the entirely novel experience of riding uptown in a taxicab, accompanied by a young physician who had been procured from the medical department of an insurance company across the street.

  6. I sha'n't leave here to go uptown till half-past seven.

  7. The particular object of her jealousy was a Miss Manson, who held a business position at an uptown milliner's.

  8. I am to be telephone boy at an uptown hotel.

  9. I'm going to move uptown in a little while.

  10. In the evening, as had been agreed, Paul accompanied his mother uptown to call on Mrs. Talbot and receive directions in regard to the house.

  11. Next Sunday we shall be walking uptown also," said Paul.

  12. Cornelius Bent had brought his business mien uptown with him, and Cortland, with a discretion borrowed of experience, made only the most perfunctory attempts at a conversation.

  13. Why, do you know, I strolled in on Caroline the other afternoon on my way uptown and found him teaching her how to play pinochle.

  14. The General was kind enough to say he wanted to meet you, so he brought me uptown in his machine.

  15. When the fat gambler reappeared, the range-rider fell in behind him unobserved and followed uptown past the Tabor Opera House as far as California Street.

  16. Can't you go uptown and 'phone out to the stockyards?

  17. Probably the most unique and interesting pieces of construction are the three junctions on the Jersey side of the river, where the uptown tunnels from New York diverge, north to Hoboken and south to Jersey City and New York downtown.

  18. About five o'clock in the afternoon, while Peggy was uptown replenishing the slender larder and Lafe and Jinnie were alone with the baby, there came a timid knock.

  19. Late one afternoon, at the close of a bitter day, Jinnie had finished her work and was resting on the door sill of an empty house on an uptown corner.

  20. Craig went directly uptown to his laboratory, in contrast with our journey down, in abstracted silence, which was his manner when he was trying to reason out some particularly knotty problem.

  21. We left Winters, still watching on the trail of Schloss, and went on uptown to the laboratory.

  22. He paused long enough to telephone his instructions to an uptown detective agency which could be depended on for such mere routine work, then joined me with the significant remark: "Blood is thicker than water, anyhow, Walter.

  23. That other Jap is a peculiar fellow," I observed, as we walked along uptown again.

  24. It was very late when we got back to the city and we dined at an uptown restaurant which we had almost to ourselves.

  25. First of all, Walter," he said as we swung aboard an uptown car, "I want to stop at the laboratory.

  26. The Bureau occupied a floor in a dwelling house uptown which had been remodeled into an office building.

  27. Uptown I hurried again, afraid that Kennedy had finished and might have been called away.

  28. On uptown the hack went, while we kept discreetly in the rear.

  29. As fast as the uptown trend of automobiles and surface cars during the rush hour would permit, Kennedy and I hurried in a taxicab to the Prince Edward Albert in the hope of surprising him there.

  30. Said a man uptown gave him a quarter to deliver it to you.

  31. He taught himself to abandon his old, introspective habits during these days on the box, and forced his attention to fix itself upon the crowds, his customers, the whole uptown panorama, so different from the night crowds he sought.

  32. As he walked uptown to his lodgings Jarvis faced the fact that up to this present moment he had been on the wrong track.

  33. Lots of my girls are employed in uptown shops, leading good, hard-working lives.

  34. On the way uptown to his room he thought it over.

  35. He headed uptown without design, walking, walking, at a furious pace.

  36. On the way uptown he made up his mind as to the next move.

  37. Uptown reputable citizens slept peacefully in their beds; this was no concern of theirs.

  38. I nodded and said no more, for he had set me to thinking deeply, and I walked all the way uptown to my hotel turning the matter over in my mind, arriving, before sleep came, at a decision.

  39. Daily at three o'clock, being awearied by much shearing of woolly, fat sheep, they rode uptown in taxicabs, utterly regardless of mounting motor tariffs and very often giving fat tips to their motor drivers besides.

  40. The week which began with that Monday morning went by; other Mondays and other weeks went by, and Marie, walking the soles off her shoes upon the pavements uptown and downtown, earned nothing at all.

  41. When the theatrical district started to move uptown Nate wouldn't move with it.

  42. All did justice to the plain meal, and never thought of envying the thousands who, in their rich uptown mansions, were sitting down at the same hour to elaborate dinners costing more than their entire week's board.

  43. He made his way quickly to Broadway, and thence to Tiffany's, at that time not so far uptown as at present.

  44. There was an uptown market, too, at Broad and McKinne.

  45. Just then a boy came out from the near-by ferry house carrying a big crate of daffodils, perhaps on their way from some Jersey farm to an uptown florist.

  46. The face of wholesale trade, dingier than the glitter of uptown shops, is far more exciting and romantic.

  47. After dinner they went uptown to purchase the necessary paint and to arrange for an additional supply of canned goods with which to stock their larder.

  48. We'll do that same and then go uptown for some more supplies.

  49. He was about to add that they would remain aboard the vessel, but caught himself and for no accountable reason answered: "We were figuring on going uptown after supper.

  50. Let's turn off the lights and maybe that watchman will think we have gone uptown if we are quiet," suggested Jack.

  51. If you wanted to take a run uptown to the show I'll be mighty glad to watch your vessel right close while you're gone.

  52. Riding uptown in the subway he had caught a glimpse of himself in a slot-machine mirror.

  53. At noon she took an uptown car and met McTeague at the corner of Polk Street.

  54. McTeague and the Sieppes took an uptown car that would bring them near Polk Street.

  55. The two lunched together at a small uptown hotel just around the corner on Sutter Street.

  56. The day he carried his certificate of membership to the big jewelry store uptown and purchased two rosettes, one for each of his two coats, was the proudest of his life.

  57. On this particular morning Hollis Holworthy was walking uptown and they met opposite the cathedral.

  58. Those knew him uptown only, where he hid the man of affairs beneath the man of the world-that-amuses-itself.

  59. Then you can go uptown and hire a taxi--they 've got big cars for mountain work and there are good roads all the way.

  60. I'm your Arthurjean and the market's closed so you'd better catch the subway uptown with me and I'll cook you a steak dinner at our place.

  61. It was about seven o'clock at night, and I had changed my clothes and was going uptown to the theatre.

  62. The club man told of a supper he had been to after the theatre in an uptown back room, in which a mysterious man and a veiled lady figured.


  63. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "uptown" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    barrio; city; civic; core; downtown; interurban; midtown; municipal; outskirts; skyward; slum; suburban; suburbs; tenderloin; town; uphill; upstairs; uptown; upward; village