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

Far from a first-degree murder defendant facing life in prison, he looked like a bumpkin who had won a new tractor.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 28, 2021

I could only nod and smile and hope I didn’t seem too much of a bumpkin.

From "Ella Enchanted" by Gail Carson Levine