country bumpkin
Example Sentences
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My self-consciousness about the high number of touring productions persuaded me not to include “Shucked” at the Hollywood Pantages, which lightened the summer with its country bumpkin merriment.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 9, 2025
“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
“Big country bumpkin, eh, Chief? One more word from you back there and she’d have thrown that table and crushed us.”
From "Redwall" by Brian Jacques
