Example sentences for: folksy

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

  • But when Pedro Medina's head caught fire during his March 1997 execution, the Florida Supreme Court ordered the Department of Corrections to write down its electric chair protocol, previously just a folksy word-of-mouth operation in Q Wing.

  • Kit Bond, a folksy Missourian.

  • The NYT says Yeltsin made his stunning announcement in a "surprisingly folksy and conciliatory speech," while WP says the speech was made by a "stiff-looking" Yeltsin, and the LAT says he was "grim."

  • It is not strictly standard French before a common noun in the vocative case, but seems borrowed from the folksy language of camaraderie, the slang of street, barracks, and campus.

  • So are folksy evergreens such as "That dog won't hunt."


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