country 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

Memphis, a guitar-strumming gentle giant with a country bumpkin way — touchingly incarnated by Sheldon D. Brown — is the main target of Waters’ irrational ire.

From Los Angeles Times • May 26, 2023

Ferociously single-minded, very impressed with herself and determined to take her new school by storm, she’s also a quick-to-embarrass country bumpkin, a classic setup for teenage comedy.

From New York Times • May 10, 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