backwoods
Example Sentences
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In the 2009 film “Get Low,” he was a backwoods hermit who staged his own funeral.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 16, 2026
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
Mr. Blackstone, 56, began fighting fires during his college years when he worked as a backwoods ranger, often getting called in to help with forest fires.
From New York Times ● Jun. 29, 2023
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
She tells me to keep looking at them as they walk to the clearing in the backwoods.
From "Split the Sky" by Marie Arnold
