How To Use Backwoods In A Sentence

Every time that the backwoodsmen tried to stitch her up, though, she would outflank them. Times, Sunday Times
You'd think that the fact it took place, not in a makeshift basement church or at a remote backwoods campsite, but in a Senate office building, might have attracted considerable media frenzy.
And after outdrawing and killing one bad guy, Raylen is transferred from the sunny skies of Miami home of Burn Notice and Miami Vice to his former home in the backwoods of Kentucky. A 'Justified' Outing For A Loose-Cannon Lawman
I fancy that he supposed me ignorant of the matter, or thought that if I had heard of it, I should never connect the respectable Dr. Black of Harlesden with a poor garreteer in the backwoods of London. The House of Souls
One could not mistake his warm empathy for the place, for his splendid vision of a small world of learning and research embracing both sides of that famous backwoods river, the Otonabee, deep in the heart of eastern Ontario.

Among the backwoodsmen in his own party, this will have been a modernisation too far. Times, Sunday Times
People used our address as a backwoods landfill, depositing the unsought and the unclean.
Small-town folk were the backbone of the country, then they were daffy oddly-accented backwoodsmen.
This web-footed rodent living in the bayous and backwoods of Louisiana has become a kind of unofficial state animal, an anointed nuisance with resident status.
Over the course of 15 tracks, they gently shift from dark, carnival oompah to breathy, folky ballads to sweeping, expansive pop and old-timey backwoods country.
I'm guessing proponents of creationism were eager to shed this image of backwoods ignorance opponents tend to associate with their theories, and leaped to embrace this new spin.
By 1708, eighty French backwoodsmen lived in the Natchez villages, enjoying ample food supplies and local customs that enjoined premarital sex for profit on young women building their trousseaus.
But when he had changed his dress for the rough garb of the hillsman, and, meeting them kindly upon their own ground, had entered so readily into their life, the people by common consent dropped the distinguishing title "Mister" for the more familiar one of the backwoods, "Dad. The Shepherd of the Hills
Lord Hesketh, the government's chief whip, knows that backwoodsmen need delicate handling.
Abraham Lincoln's campaign capitalized on the image of the log cabin and the backwoods railsplitter.
I had always figured the reclusive Yeti as being a mysterious, private creature who lurked in some backwoods plot of land slowly being bulldozed and turned into apartment complexes.
He also said that he felt agreement could be achieved, if everyone was committed to doing so and slammed "backwoodsmen" within the DUP for intransigence. Northern Ireland Local News
Why is it aliens only abduct backwoods yahoos who have jobs like cutting down trees and live in broken-down trailer parks?
True Blood" fits the bill partly in a jokey way, offering the story of backwoods-Louisiana waitress Sookie Stackhouse (Anna Paquin) and her vampire boyfriend Bill Compton (Stephen Moyer) as if their lovemaking were a socially transgressive act. Vampires for Snobs
Montana is in fact a beautiful part of the United States, one associated with rugged backwoodsmen and scenic wilderness.
This had been too halcyon a day to clutter up the memory of it with some backwoods bully's melodramatic bellowings. SOMETHING IN THE WATER
With our unrefined ways and backwoods Malayali attire, we would sit coyly, yet smugly, as the juke-box sang at our command.
Eventually a few sticks of dynamite are employed to rid the backwoods of a lumbering odiferous fiend from the Prehistoric era.
Pundits have long pondered the contradictions inherent in a vice-prez whose life contains both an out-and-proud lesbian daughter, and a backwoods redneck doofus boss.
Somewhere in backwoods Georgia we visited a monastery, a showpiece of religious tolerance. Licks of Love in the Heart of the Cold War
Sending a triumvirate of trained pollsters and media men into the bumpkin's backwoods barrio, he hopes to help the honky-tonk hick win more than his fair share of the illiterate Appalachian vote.
Of course, the jokes are all on backwoods Southerners, so if that isn't an amusing subject to you, don't pick up this droll satire.
Why should I leave the choice to a bunch of tobacco-chewing backwoodsmen who aren't even bright enough to mark the voting papers properly?
Tommy uses every trick in the book to catch his man: dressing as a rodeo clown, shilling prizes as a slick Vegas huckster, or pretending to be a backwoods hick, Tommy has all the right moves.
At a recent London show, armed with no more than a backwoods beard, an acoustic guitar and an amazing voice, he silenced a room full of gabby, gossipy music-biz types, which is no mean feat.
Don's most popular poem during his lifetime was "Noah an 'Jonah an' Cap'n John Smith," a rambling farce, told in backwoods dialect, about three fishing buddies with unique knowledge of the subject at hand. Maxims and Light Verse
As for the statement by Mr. Wes Ketcham...well we aren't so backwoodsy that we have to think about this for the next several years before we accept it. A small town's big bridge called a stimulus waste
She is but the latest in a long line of backwoods cats to call this wildlife sanctuary home, her personal habits and transferable lessons each dutifully recorded by the man-who-writes.
Similarly the Indians round the upper Ohio and thence southward often called the backwoodsmen "Virginians. The Winning of the West, Volume 2 From the Alleghanies to the Mississippi, 1777-1783
They were walking down the backwoods path they always used, although ambling was a more appropriate term.
Whatever happens, he will have discovered one thing above all else: that the wonderful thing about America is that in truth any backwoods child can grow up to be President.
And the Conservative cause no longer can be found at the tweedy, collegiate haunts but rather prefers to be spread out at some beer bar in backwoods Alabama. CPAC Warmongering Etc. « Antiwar.com Blog
In this instance, Richards's doctorship was of the double utility of delivering us from the threatened pint-glasses, and of causing us to be considered as privileged guests -- no small advantage in a backwoods 'tavern, occupied as the headquarters of an electioneering party. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 56, Number 347, September, 1844
But backwoodsmen were better at dealing with rebellious Indian chiefs than perfumed dandies were.
She was the least savant of the group, according to her tattered footwear, and her lackey hair job tailed the backwoods hillbilly aura about her.
Whether as stimulant or a sedative such tales must have stirred the deepest wells of political consciousness in the most backward of backwoodsmen.
Even adjusting for inflation, that's a lot of dough for a poor boy from the backwoods of Austria.
Esquimaux, with his daily twenty-pound quantum of train-oil, gravy, and tallow-candles, -- the alderman puffing over callipash and callipee, -- the backwoodsman hungering after fattest of pork, -- such men as these were no common sinners: they were assassins who struck at the very fountain of life, and throttled a human stomach. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 85, November, 1864
gone was the casually dressed Canadian she had thought a backwoodsman--this man was immaculately tailored
Rejecting the charge that he is a backwoodsman, a person familiar with his thinking said: ‘He's not against an international strategy.’
This region is not the backwoods our party leadership seems to think it is.
This is more like the backwoods America of popular folklore, all tumbledown shacks and pick - up trucks.
Moreover, there were similar disparities in wealth and status: magnates of the Silesian nobility had little in common with backwoodsmen like the Prussian Junkers.
The characters and monsters are very plain, unappealing folk, partially because they suffer from the drab backwoods fashion of the late 1800s, partially because of their lack of detail.
Having used the commitment to spend 0.7% of our gross national income on aid by 2013 as a way of cleansing the Conservative brand in opposition, it is no surprise that the international aid budget became hostage to the party's backwoodsmen who argue that charity begins, and ends, at home. International aid: A developing argument | Editorial
He and his lovely wife live in a remote backwoods home.
And who are the backwoodsmen opposed to these exciting possibilities? Times, Sunday Times
One Delaware chief still held out for neutrality, announcing that if he had to side with either set of combatants it would be with the "buckskins," or backwoodsmen, and not with the red-coats; but the bulk of the warriors sympathized with the Half King of the Wyandots when he said that the The Winning of the West, Volume 2 From the Alleghanies to the Mississippi, 1777-1783
Alongside the families of the unskilled labourers who at election times are herded rather unwillingly into cars to be taken to cast their Labour votes, are the costermongers and the junk men who are as staunch in their Conservatism as the backwoodsmen of the House of Lords.
The stocky man was an adventurer; his Father had took soldiery in the Blackhawk Wars in the Old Northwest, and as a frontiersman's son he had no trouble with backwoodsing for weeks, if necessary.
Outdoor activities like hang-gliding, mountaineering and skiing were conducted at a secret camp in the backwoods of Pennsylvania. ALASTAIR MCLEAN'S 'NIGHT WATCH'
I'm alternately running and driving through this Gaimanesque forest/Wisconsin backwoods, when I get to THE BORDER. Day in the Life of an Idiot
For a century mining corporations reaped sweet profits amid backwoods burgs that are struggling to stay alive today.
It has undoubtedly not escaped your notice that the godfather of optimism was a quack doctor and backwoods preacher, while the founder of the school of doomsaying was a legitimate philosopher.
Moreover, there were similar disparities in wealth and status: magnates of the Silesian nobility had little in common with backwoodsmen like the Prussian Junkers.
Their veteran spokesman thundered occasionally from the back benches, but he'd been banished to the backwoods by popular opinion.
How he arrived at this con - clusion, living in the backwoods beyond Depo Bent, was beyond Bek. Ilse Witch
And yet all I can think is how a nutritionally deprived Irish immigrant, a backwoodsman and a 16th-century carpenter managed to possess such fantastically white teeth.
It is located in the southern part of the city, hence the name ‘Downriver’, and is special in the regard that it's actually a wormhole to some backwoods city in the deep south.
For the hiker or backwoods bicyclist who carries the handgun solely for self-protection and may not own another gun, the revolver is easy to use and carry.
Maybe in backwoods Alaska she can say what she wants, but in now she's where she can be sued for her lies ... Palin defends Obama birth certificate inquiries
His collection of autobiographical essays is studded with the kind of homespun homilies so beloved of salty old backwoodsmen and Presidential candidates: ‘Hard work is where a man finds peace,’ for example.
Since these films reverse the gender/power relation between their central partners, they necessarily reverse the customary direction of the gaze: the movie star gazes at the bookseller, the glamorous reporter at the backwoodsman.
Their veteran spokesman thundered occasionally from the back benches, but he'd been banished to the backwoods by popular opinion.
The backwoodsmen are a generous and placable race. A New Guide for Emigrants to the West
It was akin to turning off a bustling well-lit highway and onto a sinister-looking backwoods dirt road that led to only God and the devil knew where.
All of a sudden, on a murky night, a light would hop up, right under our bows, almost, and an agonized voice, with the backwoods 'whang' to it, would wail out -- Life on the Mississippi
If the enemy was this barbarian from the backwoods, well and good! It would be foolish to take offence at this old bushwhacker.
‘We have a choice whether to remain in the backwoods, or become part of the wider progressive movement which will ultimately represent our interests,’ he said.
The supernatural thriller takes place in the gloomy, dark dismal backwoods outside New Orleans.
But few realistically imagine a bunch of backwoods rednecks pulled off something like this.
Roaming about in the woods with hatchet in hand, like a backwoodsman, followed by a troop of dogs; starting up of birds, snakes, hares and foxes, and examining the various kinds of trees, flowers, and birds nests, was at least, a change from the monotonous drag and pull on shipboard. Chapter XIX. The Sandwich Islanders-Hide-Curing-Wood-Cutting-Rattle-Snakes-New-Comers
He is a noble creature -- perhaps the noblest of the deer tribe -- and it is a boast of the backwoods 'hunter to have killed an elk; for such, as already mentioned, is the name erroneously given to this animal. Quadrupeds, What They Are and Where Found A Book of Zoology for Boys
Academic departments like the one referenced in this post are the intellectual equivalent of a very small community in a hillbilly backwoods holler - in desperate need of an infusion of fresh genetic material.
In 1831, French traveler and commentator Alexis de Tocqueville expressed surprise at how well informed even backwoodsmen in the wilds of Michigan and Illinois were about national politics.
This might seem an eso-enteric word, of interest only to bears and backwoodsmen. Times, Sunday Times
Thirty minutes after the Limited rolled out of the terminal Detectives Johnson and Goldberg, attired as North Country backwoodsmen and lugging battered suitcases, swaggered behind Lizbet into the smoking car of a sooty, suffocating all-coach local-express entitled laughingly in the timetables The Snowball. Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine
Sallow-eyed, furtive, maybe a little brighter than the poor boy in the grocery store, backwoodsy but not an idiot. A Bob Lee Swagger eBook Boxed Set
Rather, it seeks to draw attention to the question of whether Canadian legal education should move toward the situation in the US, where an abundance of no-name backwoods law schools saturate the market with marginally-educated lawyers. Canada’s First Fourth-Tier Law School? : Law is Cool
Moreover, the backwoodsmen were a hard people; a people who still lived in an iron age. The Winning of the West, Volume 2 From the Alleghanies to the Mississippi, 1777-1783
Make sure you've got some forward-thinking farmers on it, not the ubiquitous industry backwoodsmen.
It is almost as if they enjoy seeing backwoodsmen in both parties seething over such 'treachery'. The Sun
The boy had lived in a backwoodsy neighborhood of Pennsylvania and wore shoes with split laces. Hungry
He is several hundred miles away, ambassadoring to a backwoods strip of nothing which as far as I am concerned deserves no more of Shakallor's attention than a botfly.
A senior Tory has risked offending the party's grassroots support by describing members opposing the party's change of direction under David Cameron as "backwoodsmen". Telegraph.co.uk: news, business, sport, the Daily Telegraph newspaper, Sunday Telegraph
Outdoor activities like hang-gliding, mountaineering and skiing were conducted at a secret camp in the backwoods of Pennsylvania. ALASTAIR MCLEAN'S 'NIGHT WATCH'
In all there was an air of release, and the young people looked as if they were going to one of the social gatherings they would have called a frolic, in the backwoods phrase. The Leatherwood God
Yet when one thinks of the famed Tory backwoodsmen of the House of Lords, it is hard to regard the aristocracy as a hotbed of dissent.
The backwoodsmen and the backwater would disappear from football's map forever. Times, Sunday Times
I can see that being popular with the Tory backwoodsmen in the House of Commons.
Toss in a taste of backwoods twang and that's some fine vittles.
His collection of autobiographical essays is studded with the kind of homespun homilies so beloved of salty old backwoodsmen and Presidential candidates: ‘Hard work is where a man finds peace,’ for example.
And, frankly, this backwoods lockup was a far remove from his usual, aseptic surroundings.
They spent their childhood in the backwoods.
The idea of raising an army from backwoods colonists seemed laughable.
Almost completely outside the influences of modern science and twentieth-century culture, the peasant was a brutal, blundering backwoodsman .
The idiosyncrasies of the backwoods people were easily remembered, especially those that could be considered as negative values.
Funny that in backwoods of Tennessee they call them Inbred Hicks, you call them Royalty. Think Progress » Limbaugh: Euphoria Over Alito, A “European” “Married Male”
But the beard did itch and make me look older and also make me look like a backwoods hick.
Mr. Walton built Wal-Mart from a five-and-dime store in the backwoods of Arkansas into a giant that eventually became the planet's largest retailer. Disney, Walton, Ford, Gates: Tales of When Legends Leave
The backwoodsman doesn't really need his wallpaper changed, does he?
The untutored backwoodsman was deemed wiser than the academic scholar, for the locally grounded observer had ‘greater opportunity to make new discoveries… than the professor whose life is spent in the laboratory’.
If a waif is a lost wanderer, then little Poosk was a decided waif for he had gone very much astray indeed in the North American backwoods. Personal Reminiscences in Book Making and Some Short Stories
The feds are failing to communicate properly, and now we've had a second close call thwarted not by federal authorities -- apparently too busy chasing backwoods, "anti-gov't" crackers to focus on the real threats -- but by average, every-day Americans. Propeller Most Popular Stories
The community name connotes a backwoods community, much like "podunk Election Central Sunday Roundup
Another point: this has happened exactly where you might have expected it, neither in the big city nor in the dirt-poor backwoods, but in the zone of transition between the two.
He finally succeeded in settling in Kentucky in 1775, having cut the Wilderness Road with thirty other backwoodsmen and founded the town of Boonesborough (now Boonesboro, Kentucky).
But a group of five stood upright, backwoodsmen and frontiersmen, they, eager to contest any man's birthday. Chapter III
There is a sound that can sometimes be heard in the woods very late at night that indicates the presence of a novice backwoodsman.
Vaidya is a bright 30-year-old engineer who speaks fluent English, a rarity in this part of backwoods India.
Unless we're counting the messages on Westboro Baptist Church signs, I don't think anyone even calls Brüno a "fag" until the climax, a man-on-man make-out session at a cage match that has its meth-faced, backwoodsy audience hanging their heads, gasping for air and punching themselves in the face in response (for all their willingness to play to type, they are real live Brünos). Fourfour:
Songs sprinkled with references to selling the farm and moving to Baltimore, or seeing out one's days in the Mississippi backwoods, may not seem much closer to home, but they seemed far less exotic and esoteric.
But the people running trotlines and grabbling are kind of backwoodsy," Jackson says. In the Monster's Maw
When my father was growing up in the hills of southern Missouri, he would ride his bike into town with his buddies, in the smoky days of Indian Summers, to watch the preachers who crawled in from the backwoods to stand on their rickety boxes and sermonize to the patrons of the town square. Go to Jesus
Lord Hesketh, the government's chief whip, knows that backwoodsmen need delicate handling.
While himself a college teacher, his sharply observant eye focused on the sturdy backwoodsmen and their families.
His grandfather the 19th Baron was one of the most forthright of the Tory peers, or so-called "backwoodsmen", who fought in the last ditch against Asquith's Parliament Act 100 Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph
You need to cultivate an actual normal relationship with a woman for the first time in your backwoods life.
In the depth of winter a big group of kulaks with their families were being taken on carts 300 kilometres into the backwoods of the region.
Almost completely outside the influences of modern science and twentieth-century culture, the peasant was a brutal, blundering backwoodsman .
You'll copter in to one of five beautiful backwoods lodges for guided heli-hiking to turquoise lakes ringed by wildflowers.
It's not the witty, clever-yet-deep film you might expect, coming across instead as a lightly funny, lazy exercise in mining the obvious humor value of thrusting a big city film crew into a Northeastern backwoods hamlet.
Yet knowledge of the peacock flower and its use as an abortifacient remained confined, by and large, to the slave camps and backwoods villages of the New World colonies.
In some ways the atmosphere resembled a backwoods revival meeting. America Past and Present
Only the ex-beauty queen and the spooky backwoodsman remain halfway normal.
She is hopelessly naive about the vulgarity of American life outside her tiny, backwoods hamlet of Sparta, North Carolina.
He is said to have kept Alabama in the backwoods, culturally and economically, for a quarter of a century.
Even among musicians of a backwoodsy type, Sam Beam stands apart as a man of some dedication and resolve. This week's new live music
There are certain backwoodsmen fighting on crop assurance while 70-80 % of the industry is behind it.
But the beard did itch and make me look older and also make me look like a backwoods hick.
His contention that the backwoodsman's conquering spirit exacerbated Native American attempts to re-conquer Native ancestral lands reinforces what we already know.
Cleared of murdering their parents, these backwoods boys are looking forward to the return of their sister, Naomi.
Her pronunciation needs tidying up if she is not to be dubbed a backwoods hick. On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...
And all our lives we've been told, 'podunk' and 'hick town' and 'backwoods' and guess what: we just had a boy out of here that went to compete with the big guns. ... The OBSERVER
Their veteran spokesman thundered occasionally from the back benches, but he'd been banished to the backwoods by popular opinion.
Nor did he, like Franklin, turn his unprepossessing physique to his own advantage, creating a homespun, backwoods, authentically ‘American’ persona.
Elvis was an uneducated, backwoods boy with a big, big voice and comically bad taste.
At a recent London show, armed with no more than a backwoods beard, an acoustic guitar and an amazing voice, he silenced a room full of gabby, gossipy music-biz types, which is no mean feat.
If there's anybody selling game, it's probably going to be backwoodsy folks. Trendy pet diet sparks online demand for wild game
46 CONNECTICUT LAKES From flyfishing in backwoods beaver bogs to trolling on bigger lakes, June is prime time for trout and salmon in northern New Hampshire. A STATE-BY-STATE GUIDE TO THE HOTTEST LAKES, RIVERS, STREAMS, AND HONEY HOLES IN AMERICA
We may have just such a person on our hands -- pious but pragmatic, maneuvering between homilies, always touching down, Antaeus-like, for strength at his backwoods base. Too Soon To Tell? Judging A President's Progress
A wooden timber frame topped with a weathercock serves as the outline of a backwoods cabin in which three brothers and their sister are orphaned when a bolt of lightning strikes.
I do not underestimate the dangers of uninformed exploration of incivil backwoods trails whether in Michoacan or Chiapas or Alabama or Northern California and anyone who walks unprotected into such places has a fool as a companion. Michoacan Redux
Sometimes during war the seignior's wife and daughters were reduced to plowing in the fields and laboring with the women servants at the harvest; but ordinarily the life at the seigniory was a life of petty grandeur, with such style as the backwoods afforded. Canada: the Empire of the North Being the Romantic Story of the New Dominion's Growth from Colony to Kingdom

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