How to Use urbane in a Sentence

urbane

adjective
  • The dialogue is witty and urbane.
  • Fry appeared on the screen, a tall, urbane man with a zigzag nose.
    — David Marchese, New York Times, 2 May 2021
  • Franks’ sly, svelte songs drew from jazz, bossa nova, funk, urbane pop, soul and more.
    — George Varga, San Diego Union-Tribune, 21 June 2023
  • For the rest of us, what shines on is Becker’s lithe, urbane artistry.
    — Kyle Smith, National Review, 5 Sep. 2017
  • In the Boathouse, the snack bar offers the same mix of the down-home and urbane.
    — Alec Scott, Sunset Magazine, 22 Jan. 2018
  • The mood was comfortably urbane, with edge.
    — Alexandra Schwartz, New Yorker, 20 Oct. 2025
  • The urbane detective ties a string of murders to spies seeking plans to a new bomber.
    — Ed Stockly, Los Angeles Times, 19 Mar. 2021
  • In this first book of poems, Ovid employed an urbane, ironic voice.
    — Esteban Berché, National Geographic, 26 Nov. 2019
  • One man starts in an Urkel costume, then quickly changes into something more urbane.
    — Hal Boedeker, OrlandoSentinel.com, 22 May 2017
  • The breakout star of the series was sassy, smart, urbane and flippant Lance Loud.
    — Tim Sommer, Billboard, 25 June 2019
  • Murnau’s reimagining of the Count is monstrous rather than urbane.
    — David Sims, The Atlantic, 24 Dec. 2024
  • 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
  • Cities must be interesting and urbane — and open and accessible to all.
    — James McCown, BostonGlobe.com, 11 May 2023
  • The result is a home that feels both urbane and serene—more Kyoto pavilion than New York penthouse.
    — Abby Montanez, Robb Report, 24 Oct. 2025
  • Back when Gornick was writing about the urbane urban life, the commercial internet was still new.
    — Ian Bogost, The Atlantic, 24 Feb. 2020
  • 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
  • Gailani, a onetime mujahideen fighter against the Soviets, is now a rotund, urbane man in his sixties.
    — Jon Lee Anderson, The New Yorker, 21 Feb. 2022
  • 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
  • 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
  • With this in mind, Ediger adopted a more urbane approach to seaside style for the young couple and their growing family.
    — Kari Costas, ELLE Decor, 25 Feb. 2016
  • 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
  • Until the crash-landing, DeLillo is an urbane observer of the rituals of flight.
    — Dwight Garner, New York Times, 12 Oct. 2020
  • There's been a reappraisal of nostalgic American folk decor as of late by young, urbane tastemakers, but the look never really went away.
    — Wilder Davies, Bon Appetit Magazine, 25 Nov. 2025
  • The furniture in his study is mid-century modern, all brown and black leather, offering the room the sleekly urbane feel of an analyst’s office.
    — Holden Seidlitz, New Yorker, 20 Mar. 2026
  • 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
  • The smart living room set by Yi-Chien Lee is the deceptively urbane setting for these parents’ little talk.
    — David L. Coddon, San Diego Union-Tribune, 13 Mar. 2023
  • 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
  • This cliffside property tucked away on Cornwall’s north coast eschews rustic seaside themes for a more urbane design and quirky Ayurvedic spa.
    — Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 16 May 2026
  • Assayas is, above all, an urbane filmmaker, with no room for discourse so crude or interruption so abrupt as to let the winds of history waft through his film unperfumed.
    — Richard Brody, New Yorker, 13 May 2026
  • 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

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