Example sentences for: folksy

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

  • His Texas drawl and folksy eloquence are overpowering--like drinking a gallon of sweet, warm cream.

  • Eliot's--an entry that runs on for two and a half pages), the name of just one Yiddish theatrical figure, Boris Tomashefsky , Hebrew literary works ( Zohar ), nonce formations ( money/shmoney , which takes up two pages), misspelled place names to indicate mispronunciation ( BRANzvil , for Brownsville , a section of Brooklyn), Yiddish words that are never used in English ( FUHLKStimlech `folksy,' guht `God,' ich starb `I'm dying'), encyclopedic terms ( black Jews ), and nonexistent words ( who-er “defined’ by the author as “Not exactly Yiddish, but the New Yorkish pronunciation of whore’).

  • The animation soft, the music folksy, we are introduced to the "Quilted Northern Quilters," a group of women creating handmade paper.

  • Despite the show's folksy pretensions, Clinton is said to still come across as a political beast, promoting funding for the arts and physical education.

  • Kit Bond, a folksy Missourian.


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