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 jumped up in the crib, smelled Little Ann’s foot, twisted around in the shucks, and lay down by her side.

From "Where the Red Fern Grows" by Wilson Rawls