hillbilly

Example Sentences

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Stewart didn’t go for polyester suits or arenas, preferring the rough and rowdy “skull orchards” around Fort Pierce where he could alternate between hillbilly rock and progressive bluegrass.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 27, 2026

Or as Vance once put it: "To understand me, you must understand that I am a Scots-Irish hillbilly at heart."

From BBC • Aug. 13, 2025

He’s a hillbilly, an elegist, and a Yale Law School graduate.

From Slate • Mar. 5, 2025

"Mountain Justice" pits a hillbilly father against his daughter who, Nugent wrote, “picked up her new-fangled notions at a nurses' training school.”

From Salon • Jul. 20, 2024

Dad did an imitation of a hillbilly accent.

From "The Watsons Go to Birmingham" by Christopher Paul Curtis