Example sentences for: rubes

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

  • The townspeople find the proprietors invasive and insufferably haughty; the owners, in turn, call the locals homophobes and rubes.

  • The South has rednecks, the Midwest has rubes, Los Angeles has vapidity, New York has violence, and foreign countries have foreigners.

  • If he's aware of us at all, my friends and I,in a back booth farthest from the stage, what are webut the proverbial rubes, sight-seeing frat boyson a sleazy lark, too loud, too talkative, gigglinguneasy ironies about being where we'd never go alone.

  • Here's a brief sordid history of toys-of-the-year: Fisticuffs have erupted over Cabbage Patch Kids; Tickle-Me-Elmos have been stockpiled and scalped for bank-breaking prices; Beanie Baby counterfeiters have taken rubes to the cleaners; and this year's toy-of-the-year--Furby--is already sold out of several chains and is being auctioned off on eBay for up to $200 apiece


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