shucks

Example Sentences

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Dressed in jeans, fashionable sandals and a white T-shirt emblazoned with Andy Anaheim, the city’s cheery mascot, Rubalcava offered me an aw shucks grin.

From Los Angeles Times • May 29, 2024

The NFL issued a $10 million fine — so, shucks, poor Dan will have to put his next super yacht on layaway — and shifted day-to-day control of the team to his wife, Tanya.

From Washington Post • Jun. 23, 2022

He might as well have said, "Aw, shucks."

From Fox News • Feb. 5, 2022

I used to sort of like, roll my eyes every time Taylor Swift was all, ‘Aw shucks, really, me?’

From Seattle Times • Dec. 22, 2021

He picks the first ear off the stalk, hurriedly shucks it, and buries his teeth into it.

From "First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers" by Loung Ung