jerkwater town
Example Sentences
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To his dismay, the priestess sided with Tilantongo’s enemies and ordered 8-Deer, Tilantongo's champion, to exile himself a hundred miles away, in a jerkwater town on the Pacific called Tututepec.
From "1491" by Charles C. Mann
She may have been successful in some little, out-of-the-way academy in a jerkwater town, but she’s sadly out of place here.
From Grace Harlowe's Problem by Flower, Jessie Graham [pseud.]
He'd make more dough if he owned the local garage and dealer franchise for one of the automobile companies in some jerkwater town.
From The Common Man by Schelling, George Luther
I never would have been anything more than a stock actress in some jerkwater town, as we say in the West, if the movies hadn’t become so popular.
From Ruth Fielding Down East Or, The Hermit of Beach Plum Point by Emerson, Alice B.
But, no matter how things pan out, darned if I cain’t allus say truthful that she just about suits me–that ornery, little, jerkwater town!
From Alec Lloyd, Cowpuncher by Gates, Eleanor
