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
Little is known about Mr Benastick's condition or how he survived in the backwoods.
From BBC ● Nov. 27, 2024
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
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
We were in the backwoods of New Jersey, on a crumbling road lined with run-down businesses and tattered billboard signs.
From "The Last Olympian" by Rick Riordan
