Example sentences for: hillbilly

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

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

  • We've come a long way since then: ragtime and radio, hillbilly and race records, big bands and showtoons, 45s and triple concept albums, MTV and CDs and horror-core.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • As penance, she promises to retire the hillbilly stereotype from this day forward.


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