Example sentences for: rube

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

  • In Figure .b, my Rube Goldberg device achieves a rudimentary  or sophisticated, depending upon pride of inventorship  propagation of macroscopic consequences in the universe.

  • Each of the sixty-two Heath Robinsons—Rube Goldbergs to you Americans—here illustrated conceals a miniature harmonica (diatonic and with the range of a full octave).

  • Early on, he makes Dunph seem a tad stupid, but when he's picked up hitchhiking by Jane and her rich parents, you glimpse the sneaky undercurrents of his rube act.

  • He played the rube.

  • In a 1960 letter Hersh found in the Kennedy Library, Ben Bradlee--then of Newsweek and later the editor of the Washington Post --advises Kennedy not to pick the unmannered rube LBJ as his running mate.


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