hillbilly

Example Sentences

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So I was learning all this hillbilly music with my uncle, and then I focused on being an awesome guitar player.

From BBC

However, Vance has also described himself as a "Scots-Irish hillbilly at heart" in the past, with his ancestors having moved to the Appalachian region in the US more than three centuries ago.

From BBC

The book may never wind up on a bestseller list or see the big screen, but Terra Vance said its lessons on empathy and perseverance are “the real hillbilly elegy.”

From Los Angeles Times

Others accepted Vance but don’t like him, mainly because his book criticizes hillbillies for their “bad choices” and flawed culture and celebrates his own desperate escape out of it.

From Salon

He falsely introduces himself to his Yale classmates as “a conservative hillbilly from Appalachia.”

From Salon