hoedown

Example Sentences

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Beyoncé has never sounded more southern as she sings, "It's a real-life boogie and a real-life hoedown."

From Salon • Feb. 12, 2024

Ostensibly a backwoods hoedown, “Rag Mama Rag” is a prime example of Robertson and the Band as American music alchemists.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 9, 2023

It’s performed as a sort of hoedown celebration, with dancing that defines each participant as an idiosyncratic individual and as part of a synchronized whole.

From New York Times • Oct. 2, 2018

In this reading, though, it sometimes threatened to founder on the exaggerated, slowed-down drama of its ­quiet passages, before whiplashing abruptly into what sounded like a hoedown projected in a funhouse mirror. 

From Washington Post • Sep. 28, 2017

“Yee haw! There’s a gonna be a hoedown at the trailer park!” the Colonel said.

From "Looking for Alaska" by John Green