Example sentences for: backwoods

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

  • She was astonishingly intense as the backwoods sister of a suicidal boy in the otherwise mediocre thriller I Know What You Did Last Summer (1997), and her Carole Lombardish timing was a spark plug for the tired Six Days, Seven Nights . She is the best thing to happen to movies since Debra Winger; she might even be as good as Winger--which is as good as movie actresses get.

  • The Trans-Canada Highway stretches nearly 8,000 km (4,800 miles) from coast to coast, and secondary roads are very good until you get into the backwoods.

  • After his excruciating performance in the 1996 Republican presidential campaign, Lamar Alexander should have had the grace to disappear quietly into the Tennessee backwoods.

  • The story, based on Homer Hickam Jr.'s memoir Rocket Boys , follows a few backwoods kids in the 1950s who use amateur rocketry as a steppingstone to college scholarships and an escape from the coal mines where their fathers work.

  • His lawyers hope to ship his backwoods shack to Sacramento so jurors will understand that only a crazy person could live there.


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