Example sentences for: moonshine

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

  • Its lyrics often caricature old-style country songs; they sound a lot like bad Faulkner ("June went insane by the time she was nine/ killed her brother with a tire iron," sings one alternative country act, Moonshine Willy).

  • American culture has always fed off half-truths about authenticity, and this is the way in which alternative country is a genuine expression of something: Hipsters with a sense of ironic detachment, like Chicago's Moonshine Willy, have as much claim to the "real" America as any mule-driver.

  • A story says the moonshine industry is still huge in the southern United States, but it has left behind its rustic past.

  • This fourth group--bands such as Whiskeytown, Moonshine Willy, and the Waco Brothers--uses country as a shock device, a flash of bad taste, and seems to view the genre as an oppressive religion.


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