How To Use buncombe In A Sentence
- They were from all over the map -- "complete hooey" from _Minority Report_, "buncombe" from _The New Republic_, "as truthful as Lydia Pinkham's Vegetable Compound" from an article on pedagogy in the _Sun_. Asimov's Science Fiction
- Neither General Kearney nor Mason had much respect for this land of "buncombe," but assumed the true doctrine that Memoirs of the Union's Three Great Civil War Generals
- Buncombe was delighted to encounter a sea-faring friend, and insisted on taking George Jernam down to River View Cottage to eat what he called a homely bit of dinner. Run to Earth A Novel
- Buncombe has purchased a complete outfit of machinery, and has begun to macadamize. North Carolina and its Resources.
- What is the origin of the term "buncombe" as popularly used? Southern Literature From 1579-1895 A comprehensive review, with copious extracts and criticisms for the use of schools and the general reader
- But to an intelligent worker such sermons sound like capitalistic propaganda, upon which he is constantly being fed by every labor-exploiting concern in the country, and quite naturally he tries to avoid getting an extra dose of the same kind of buncombe on Sunday .... The Necessity of Atheism
- The propaganda machine is in reverse and if the BADM had its way the public would never find out that all the hoopla over Mononykus was just a lot of buncombe about a weird dinosaur.
- I never have and never will resort to 'buncombe' for the purpose of securing my own advancement. Forty-Six Years in the Army
- It is the purest kind of buncombe for any man to say that democracy is the millenium, just as it is lunacy for the Bolshevist to say that to introduce his system would introduce the millenium. Democracy or Bolshevism
- It must be remembered, however, that the Americans of both parties in the North are more in the habit of "speaking daggers" at each other than of using them; and that, perhaps, all this loud talking is but the bark of a dog that will not bite -- mere "buncombe," intended for present effect. The Presidential Contest in America