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Example sentences for: salt-of-the-earth

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"Boston Globe : Following his impeachment, Bill Clinton meets with colorful, possibly apocryphal, salt-of-the-earth Boston characters."
Older locals — trawler men or dockworkers — might lament the loss of Leith’s gritty, “salt-of-the-earth” reputation, but the town has an air of excitement about it.
Kenneth Starr, Paula Jones, Linda Tripp, Lucianne Goldberg, Susan Carpenter-McMillan, the Rutherford Institute people -- they're very unpopular, even among salt-of-the-earth citizens who don't at all condone the sorts of shenanigans alleged of Clinton.