Example sentences for: hillbilly

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

  • He began collecting 78-rpm recordings in the early 1940s, acquiring thousands of "race" and "hillbilly" works from the junk shops of the Pacific Northwest before they could be melted down, their shellac recuperated for the war effort.

  • Consider also that Smith deliberately avoided identifying the performers by race--"It took years before anybody discovered that Mississippi John Hurt wasn't a hillbilly," he said, and it is just as surprising to find out that such bluesmen as Hutchinson and Richard "Rabbit" Brown were white.

  • It is deprogrammed, studiously sloppy, bad-tempered, unfit for commercial country radio, heavy with the down-market embarrassment of country's hillbilly past, and mostly made by rockers.

  • Contrary to the easily caricatured image of country musicians as "the real thing," many hillbilly artists were as self-conscious as their pop and folk counterparts.

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


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