backwoods
Example Sentences
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If you don’t know Atkins’ backstory, it’s a lot like Dolly Parton’s — smart but poor kid in a backwoods cabin, no running water, few prospects, and a lot of heart.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 8, 2024
Rust Cohle slow dances with murmurings about Carcosa in Season 1, and the anthology’s creator Nic Pizzolatto spiced up the mystique by depositing backwoods fetishes near crime scenes.
From Salon ● Feb. 5, 2024
Doing so doesn’t require traipsing into the backwoods of Louisiana listening for a double-knock call that may never come.
From Slate ● May 27, 2023
Dakota Adams - he and his mother now use her maiden name - spent much of his earliest years not in the backwoods of Montana, but in the middle of America's east coast power centres.
From BBC ● Nov. 29, 2022
The Swedish film crew was eager to meet the challenge of finding Walter's trailer in the backwoods of South Alabama.
From "Just Mercy" by Bryan Stevenson
