Example sentences for: aw-shucks

How can you use “aw-shucks” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Of more significance is the accusation that Milos Forman's film turns the wholly unappetizing Larry Flynt into an aw-shucks, lovably pigheaded guy.

  • Another Quindlen-like figure was William Allen White, the great turn-of-the-century editor of the Emporia, Kansas, Gazette , who deployed his aw-shucks tone to attack heartland know-nothingism and populism, but whose greatest column is widely acknowledged to be his elegy to his daughter, who died after she ran into a low-hanging branch while riding a horse.

  • The consensus is that Bumpers' aw-shucks style and his rhetorical flourishes were viewed by the Senate audience as a refreshing contrast to the lawyerly nit-picking (such as that displayed by Clinton private attorney David Kendall, who also spoke yesterday) that had heretofore carried the day.


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