Corsica is the land ofupstarts and of natural equality.
And, indeed, he saw the upstarts of the Empire obtaining some of the offices reserved, under the old monarchy, for the highest families.
Does he compromise his dignity by hanging about an office, bowing down before the upstarts you call Directors-General?
He concluded his preface to the first volume of Capital, written in 1873, with a bitter allusion to the "mushroom upstarts of the new, holy Prussian German Empire.
Young upstarts disregarding rules of a thousand years' growth," and so on.
It really was funny to watch the white drawn faces of the water drinkers of the top table, with the one syphon of seltzer as relief, while we, upstarts of a new age, were regaling ourselves with Pommery.
Wingate:' the purse-proud upstarts of the day are here designated by the generic name of Wingate, an eminent arithmetician, who lived early in the seventeenth century.
When, therefore, the upstarts had dared a combat with the honored and powerful University of Paris--the shining sun, to use the words of Alexander IV.
Ignorant and presumptuous, even beyond upstarts in general, the Prince of Peace treats with insolence all persons raised above him by birth or talents, who refuse to be his accomplices or valets.
For example, the rich upstarts against whom he is perpetually thundering, are by no means all worthy of blame.
Mere upstarts set the fashion in dress, in extravagance, and all who would be elegant, followed, leading the way to barbaric vices.
This lady's most striking characteristic was a vulgar boastfulness, such as is seldom met with even among the worst upstarts of the Bourse.
What was the use of humiliating and exterminating the Jew if these upstarts were not only to take his place in grinding the people as tax-gatherers but were to bear rule in court and camp and church?
It is, on the other hand, just the opposite with the upstarts and dogmatists who regard their royal privileges seriously.
Offices and professions vacated by the appointment of so many upstarts afford in their turn a vast field for the ambition of the lower classes.
A native who had let himself be crowded out by ignorant upstarts from a filthy dot in the sea!
They did not look at all the upstarts that all new buildings in Kansas did.
He accordingly entered warmly into its interests, and upon every occasion talked of the dockers, as the inhabitants of the new town were called, as upstarts and aliens.
Those upstarts had decided that certain branches of the famous Orgreave elms were dangerous and must be cut, and the workmen, shirt sleeved in the rain, were staying one of the elms with a rope made fast to the swing in the Clayhanger garden.
The upstarts had committed other sacrilege upon the house and grounds, not heeding that the abode had been rendered holy by the sacraments of fate.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "upstarts" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
