Example Sentences

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“They’re just like all of y’all’s grandparents — I mean, to the extent y’all’s grandparents are rednecks from south Georgia,” he said to laughter.

From Seattle Times • May 23, 2023

When they joked about rednecks and Klan members, I responded that the countryside would remind them of the villages of our parents, while the lifestyle meshes well with our rancho libertarian ways.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 13, 2023

But, as local historian Joe Nick Patoski said, one thing united hippies and rednecks, cowboys and stoners, slackers and geeks: music.

From Washington Post • Mar. 16, 2020

These arresting stories, all set in a working-class town in eastern British Columbia, where D. W. Wilson grew up, concern “the nuances of rural life, the divide between rednecks and bluecollars.”

From New York Times • Jan. 29, 2014

Apparently the Robertson boys are yuppies dressing up as rednecks for profit, and A&E is laughing with them all the way to the bank.

From Salon • Dec. 30, 2013