backwoods
Example Sentences
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As one of the singer’s sound engineers told Mr. McDonough, the trick was to get Stewart into some “backwoods” dive where “he’d really fly. Stewart was just one of those downward-mobility guys.”
In the 2009 film “Get Low,” he was a backwoods hermit who staged his own funeral.
From Los Angeles Times
The era of mega-fires is causing a little noticed climate migration that is reshaping life for thousands of people in California’s backwoods, pushing small, self-reliant mountain communities to the brink of extinction.
From Los Angeles Times
They paid the midwife $7.50 for me — this was in the backwoods of Louisiana.”
From Los Angeles Times
A hiker who was lost in the backwoods of British Columbia for more than five weeks has been found alive.
From BBC
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
