Example sentences for: folksy

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

  • 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."

  • No one wants to read that much of the same thing--that much folksy, digressive argument--in a single sitting.

  • 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.

  • The Democrats' Plan A is to raise as much soft money as possible; if they come up short, Plan B is to adopt a folksy, you-can't-buy-the-presidency spin.

  • The book preaches this now familiar creed to the multitudes; Shlaes uses folksy lingo and homespun anecdotes to give her message a warmly populist glow.


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