country bumpkin

Example Sentences

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“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 • Aug. 15, 2024

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 • Jul. 28, 2023

Anduaga’s soigné style, and vibrant yet plangent timbre, made him an uncommonly sensitive Nemorino — more of a melancholy-prone Werther scribbling poeticisms in a notebook than a sunny country bumpkin mooning over his beloved.

From New York Times • Apr. 18, 2023

"Just because I'm from the South, people expect me to be all country bumpkin, out riding four-wheelers all the time, but that's not really how it is," Thompson said.

From Fox News • Aug. 25, 2021

Next, Marston took the stage dressed as a country bumpkin to sing “Widdecombe Fair.”

From "Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World" by Jennifer Armstrong