Example sentences for: folksy

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

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

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

  • 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.

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

  • 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’).


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