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Example sentences for: yokels

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Yokels, for example, are called hicks in America and hodges in England; and because workhorses once often sported the name Robert , we call a prototype horse Old Dobbin and our ancestors called rocking horses hobby horses .
Dissenting, the Washington Post 's Tom Shales calls the show's jabs at yokels "smug and snide."