hambone

Example Sentences

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If you happen to have a chicken carcass or a hambone on hand?

From Slate • Dec. 26, 2019

Besides what actor worth his hambone wouldn’t want to have a chance to become a comic-book Hitler?

From New York Times • Nov. 15, 2018

For Norvell, it is also important to recognize that African-Americans in the northeast forged traditions of their own, though not as well known as Southern traditions such as banjo playing and juba, a dance style also called hambone.

From Reuters • May 29, 2015

This is an immense improvement, to my taste, over Affleck’s hambone stud muffin turn in “The Town,” which curdled an otherwise capable crime-romance.

From Salon • Oct. 11, 2012

In the dance pavilion at West Port Jensen the night lanterns were kindled; tourists from Seattle poured forth from the excursion steamers to perform the Svenska polka, the Rhinelander, the schottische, and the hambone.

From "Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel" by David Guterson