moonshiner

Example Sentences

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This one is an action-packed tale centered on a powerful family of moonshiners in 1920s Virginia, and it’s filled with enough dead bodies, doomed romances and sudden betrayals to make you wonder if George R.R.

From New York Times

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

Immigrants flooding to New York from Ireland during the 19th century brought their poitín recipes with them, and many a quintessential mountain moonshiner probably had an Irish grandfather.

From Seattle 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