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Binx Walton, Kaia Gerber, Lexi Boling, and Hanne Gaby Odiele, et al—to the collection’s uptown-downtown mash-ups of tweed, rugby stripes, leopard, and leather. — Corey Tenold, Vogue, "Go Backstage at Alexander Wang’s Fall 2019 Show in Brooklyn," 2 Dec. 2018 The lofty store is roughly double the size of its uptown sibling, and offers a larger inventory of its furniture and accessories, as well as interior design services. — Alyssa Wolfe, ELLE Decor, "Double the Fun," 5 July 2012 Last year when the first phase, running about 1.6 miles uptown, finally opened, the final price tag was more than $4 billion. That’s many times the cost of comparable French or British projects. — David Siegel, WSJ, "Don’t Binge on Bridge-Building," 18 June 2018 Despite the rain, the midterms, and the typical street closures, New Yorkers migrated uptown last night to celebrate all things elegant at Barneys New York. — Edward Barsamian, Vogue, "Amy Astley, Behati Prinsloo, and Barneys New York Celebrate Interior Designer Extraordinaire Ryan Korban," 7 Nov. 2018 The gallery’s downtown space will present Babie Brood: Small Paintings 1985–2018, the first survey of her small-scale work, while uptown eight new large-scale pieces make their debut in a show dubbed New Paintings. — Thomas Gebremedhin, WSJ, "Lisa Yuskavage’s Art Continues to Defy Characterization," 6 Nov. 2018 Selling FINE Art Vincent Price pitches Picasso The target Sears customer was the average American, not the uptown grande dame bedecked in pearls and furs. — Tiffany Hsu, The Seattle Times, "When Sears was everywhere: espionage, politics and fine art," 15 Oct. 2018 On Friday night, Ralph Lauren celebrated his 50th anniversary with quite a spectacular show uptown in Central Park. — Eric Johnson, Recode, "Colin Kaepernick’s Nike ads are just one piece of a bigger ‘reckoning’ in the fashion industry," 20 Sep. 2018 Michael Kors channeled uptown glamour for its latest fall campaign. — Sarah Nechamkin, The Cut, "A Very Uptown Michael Kors Campaign," 3 July 2018Recent Examples on the Web: Noun
By 1909, there were 42 nickelodeons adjacent to the Lower East Side and 10 uptown in Jewish Harlem. — Jamie Lauren Keiles, Vox, "In the US, Jews have been eating American Chinese food on Christmas for over 100 years.," 21 Dec. 2018 By night, head uptown for jazz in Harlem or grab a slice of crack pie for dessert at Momofuku Milk Bar. — Condé Nast Traveler, "The Best Cities in the U.S.: 2018 Readers' Choice Awards," 9 Oct. 2018 Where to go Head to the McColl Center for Art + Innovation uptown for its latest Community Pie Social, a throwback to a simple time where people got together to enjoy good food and good conversation. — charlotteobserver, "What’s up this week in Charlotte’s visual arts?," 10 July 2018 This year for the first time, for instance, event organizers blocked off sections of over 7,000 seats at the Spectrum Center uptown for the tournament's championship games. — Katherine Peralta, charlotteobserver, "CIAA 'reevaluates' whether to host annual basketball tournament in Charlotte," 9 July 2018 The building is one of uptown Charlotte's oldest commercial strips, with brick buildings that date to 1921. — Kathleen Purvis, charlotteobserver, "Popular uptown restaurant closed for pest infestation, other problems," 22 June 2018 Brooklyn was the name of a historically African-American neighborhood in uptown that sat on land now largely occupied by local government buildings and a quiet park. — Ely Portillo, charlotteobserver, "Massive redevelopment in uptown Charlotte takes a step closer to becoming reality," 10 July 2018 In the morning, Ms. Rockburne, a single mother, would bring her daughter uptown to school at Dalton. — Phyllis Tuchman, New York Times, "Dorothea Rockburne’s Ephemeral Art and Enduring Legacy," 4 May 2018 In the Big Apple, Midtown is that swath of the island between downtown and uptown. — John Kelly, Washington Post, "A new D.C. building is coining a new neighborhood name — or resurrecting one," 19 June 2018These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'uptown.' Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.
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uptown
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English Language Learners Definition of uptown
: the upper part of a city or town : the part of a city or town that is away from the central part
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