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 I exhibit a device  a Rube Goldberg device, in fact  of which I am extremely proud.

  • 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.

  • 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).

  • In fact, my fine Rube Goldberg device does not quite demonstrate all I might wish it to show, for it does not demonstrate the use of the release of energy to actually construct constraints.


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