Example sentences for: hick

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

  • I don't know whom I adored more: Billy Bob Thornton as a greasy hick with a whiff of Tales From the Crypt -style demonism; Nick Nolte, as a skeletal, gravel-voiced albino who could be John Huston after a decade of being eaten by worms; or Jon Voight, as a blind half-Indian whose portentous utterances are both full of crap and eerily abstruse.

  • Cook is entirely hip to the irony of their relationship: Just as Eleanor was coming to the full command of her own powers, poor Hick (who quit the AP over the conflict of interest posed by her personal ties to ER) was pining away over having given up the career that had lifted her out of poverty and brought her every good thing in her life up to the time she met ER.

  • But the moment she berates the "privilege" of those who couldn't afford to make a down payment on her carriage house, or invokes the "greed" of those making 125 percent of the mean per capita income, I'm with Hick, who said to Eleanor during a White House dinner, "God damn it--none of us ought to be wearing velvet dinner gowns these days."

  • Through the rest we get Lewis' sensitive transcriptions of "a booming hick drawl," culminating in a contrast to Jim Barksdale, who, we are told, has escaped hickdom--he "retains only enough of the piney woods patter to offer a passing imitation of a good ol' boy when he needs to."

  • Hick!


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