moonshiner

Example Sentences

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First there’s that of Eliot Ness — a minor police celebrity fresh from defeating Al Capone in Chicago and seasoned from his sojourn battling moonshiners in Ohio, Kentucky and Tennessee — who arrives in Cleveland in 1934.

From New York Times

It was a striking show of solidarity from a sport that was fathered by moonshiners in the hollers of North Carolina and for decades has been hard baked into the American South.

From New York Times

Allowing the plants to seed has enabled the survival of the extremely rare Wormwood moonshiner beetle, which eats the seeds.

From BBC

EXCLUSIVE: The ongoing coronavirus pandemic has crippled thousands of businesses across the country, but for modern moonshiners, they say sales have been booming.

From Fox News

“Nascar is going to be a thing of the past. They are taking everything out for what it stands for. It was put together by rednecks, moonshiners and hillbillies.”

From The Guardian