bumpkin

Example Sentences

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Adebimpe exclaimed between bites of mushroom tagliatelle, adopting a bumpkin commentator’s voice.

From New York Times

“Shanghai was the place to be. It had the best restaurants, the best nightclubs, the coolest people. I felt like such a country bumpkin, but I learned fast.”

From BBC

According to Taylor in his autobiography, “Private Domain,” Mr. Wagoner took on the persona “of being a bumpkin in the Big City for all it’s worth.”

From New York Times

“People may call me an ignorant bumpkin,” he once said.

From New York Times

So a school that I had never visited, Harvard, took an enormous risk and accepted me, and I became a token country bumpkin to round out a class of polished overachievers.

From Seattle Times