redneck

Example Sentences

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“She calls herself a redneck environmentalist,” Kreider said during a visit at Gilbert’s home.

From Salon • Aug. 17, 2025

You can be a redneck and not be racist.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 26, 2024

Deploying his relaxed, mellifluous Southern drawl to sinister purposes, Matthew McConaughey channels Robert Mitchum in Letts’s bracing redneck noir about a trailer-park murder scheme in West Texas that goes sideways.

From New York Times • Aug. 7, 2023

A Tampa Ron De Santis, 54 - his family spells his name with a space between “De” and “Santis” - calls himself an Italian redneck from Winter Haven.

From Washington Times • Dec. 24, 2022

Something about his mud-encrusted boots and the way he let smoke curl from his lips and how the sinking sun lit his green hair reminded me of a punk, redneck James Dean.

From "Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children" by Ransom Riggs