backwoods
Example Sentences
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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
Ostensibly a backwoods hoedown, “Rag Mama Rag” is a prime example of Robertson and the Band as American music alchemists.
From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 9, 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
Dakota Adams - he and his mother now use her maiden name - spent much of his earliest years not in the backwoods of Montana, but in the middle of America's east coast power centres.
From BBC • Nov. 29, 2022
He looks like the backwoods version of a wise wizard from the movies.
From "The Manifestor Prophecy" by Angie Thomas
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