Sentence examples for uptown from inspiring English sources

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uptown

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The residential part of a city, away from the commercial center

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Appearing in 10 seasons of the TV show has progressed the 54-year-old's label from uptown Manhattan into the living rooms of middle America.

Tasteful and traditional was the mood, the hush of lobbies in discreet uptown hotels.

As a result, the Apfels live a gilded uptown life in a Park Avenue apartment with "a possible Velasquez" on the wall.

He liked his beer and his tucker; he was ordinary-sounding bloke who seemed more at home in the front bar of his local than in a ritzy uptown club.

It was an anyhow streetscape, built for hard work and proletarian scraping, utterly different from the glittering, gridded uptown.

Until the late 70s the city's cultural scene was divided, with little traffic between the art galleries, chi-chi uptown discos and grimy Lower East Side punk haunts.

Since news broke last month that the 80-year-old godfather of American uptown fashion had invited the disgraced ex-Dior designer for an internship, the industry has been curious to discover whether this was merely a generous gesture, or a mouthwatering creative collaboration between two wildly different designers.

Slavery was not something I ever associated with New York, but given the city's close ties to shipping and the Caribbean, I should not have been surprised.Because of a new law prohibiting burials south of Canal Street, and later south of 14th Street, Trinity Church opened a cemetery uptown in Washington Heights.

The company's recent evolution from uptown mainstay to peripatetic organisation was similarly tumultuous.

Normality returned block by block as you moved uptown.

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Breaking the record for the most streamed track in a single week, Uptown Funk has been listened to nearly 2.34m times in the past seven days, overtaking Sheeran's Thinking Out Loud, which notched up 1.72m streams in a single week in November.

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