Example sentences for: hillbilly

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

  • In Wild River , Elia Kazan rats out his hillbilly co-workers to the Tennessee Valley Authority.

  • The chairman of a congressional committee who calls upon "the gentle lady from Arkasota," while thinking, "you dumb hillbilly bitch," is polite but not civil in my sense.

  • He enrolled at the Dallas Conservatory of Music, and sang Gilbert and Sullivan in New York City opera houses before perceiving that there was a market in hillbilly songs.

  • (He once called himself, with a flash of perfect insight, a "mean, lazy hillbilly."

  • The earliest "hillbilly" recordings had a sort of present-immediately-becoming-past effect: They purported to be old-timey as soon as they were released.


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