How To Use Shucks In A Sentence
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It skips along, at times precarious (dead end, sad sack lives, physical and emotional abuse, and world domination by a vampire plant), at times joyous (an aw-shucks love story, a rags-to-riches business success, and a fantastic sense of place, established by a song that states its preference for downtown to uptown).
James Scarborough: Little Shop of Horrors, STAGEStheatre, Fullerton
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She eyed it furtively, then sniffed it suspiciously, but finally discovered that it bore some relation to her native "shucks," when she fell to eagerly.
Birds and Poets : with Other Papers
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Oh, shucks, and here I was thinking that was you.
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Swaying her hips behind an oversized guitar, she was delightful with her aw-shucks talent.
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Moni-chan smiled and shrugged in a way that said ‘aw, shucks.’
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In allusion to those remarkable feats of arms and -- legs -- Early's or Stuart's raids and Jackson's forced rapid marches, almost at horse-speed, when the men carried no rations, but ate corn-ears taken from the shucks and roasted them "at their pipes," the droll ruler would bring in that "mewl" again:
The Lincoln Story Book
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Shucks!" cried Absalom, unfilially; "ye'd aheap better be a-studyin '
His "Day In Court" 1895
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With a gigantic career based upon an aw-shucks tone of blue collar tales of midwestern values, couldn't one little fling many years ago get absolved after a teary apology?
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They are also the friendliest and most unabashedly contrite with ‘Aww, shucks!’
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On the northern belt, shucks are the outer covering of nuts; in the middle and southern regions the word is applied to what in New England is called the husks of the corn.
The Hoosier Schoolmaster
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If we had ep-p-zu-dit we used different things to make tea out of, such as shucks, cow chips, hog hoofs, cow hoofs.
Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves Arkansas Narratives, Part 3
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Hatch says, ‘I didn't understand why anyone would be scared of me’ - aw, shucks!
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‘Aw, shucks,’ he may suddenly say, as the discussions on global warming drag on, ‘why don't we all just go out and hit the greens?’
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Terry actually says "Oh, shucks!" when complimented on her singing.
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POWELL: The most I ever saw him do is maybe say, "shucks" over some particular problem that had occurred during that day or some story in the newspaper that troubled him.
CNN Transcript Jun 10, 2004
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Gibbs, meanwhile, will go out on his own, where he can go on the soundbite attack, but do it from the aw-shucks stance of a guy who comes from the part of the country where people tend to cling to their guns and their religion.
The Insider Machinery Is Complete
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Don struggled to explain how little and how much "shucks" could mean.
Between Planets
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It's not hard to see why; on a superstar-laden $180 million team with a moribund offense, he's the humble, aw-shucks rookie making the minimum and providing the unexpected boost, giving the fans somebody new to root for.
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But that it amounts to more than "shucks," despite the footman's epigram, is presently apparent when the staff-officer comes more slowly back, easing his panting horse.
A War-Time Wooing A Story
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Oh yeah, and it doesn't go without saying: "shucks" for the praise...
Life On Mars
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He adds a characteristically aw-shucks postscript: ‘I have no way of justifying what I do, no temporal defence at all.’
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The story is not only poorly done, but in its aw-shucks, nostalgic tone, seems to violate the unsettling, violent spirit of the movie that these extras are supposedly helping us to understand.
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Mayfly nymphs and caddisfly and midge pupae swim to the water's surface, and emergers wiggle and twitch as they climb out of their shucks.
10 Ways to Fool Smart Trout
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Shucks!" cried Absalom, unfilially; "ye'd aheap better be a-studyin '
His "Day In Court" 1895
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Shucks, I'd sooner spend my money on a cow, said the farmer.
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Until I moved here, I never knew one should cover the pot of shucked and de-silked ears with a few of the shucks before beginning to boil.
September 14, Day of the Charro
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And every country faced the same problem when it came to dubbing the aw-shucks ramblings of one of the movie's lead characters - the country bumpkin tow truck Mater, voiced in the movie by Larry the Cable Guy.
Yahoo! News: Business - Opinion
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British baronets don't say 'sure,' 'shucks' or vamoose. '
Malcolm Sage, Detective
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Aw, shucks Thanks for such a kind introduction, Eugene.
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Very few of us find it easy to talk about ourselves in anything other than an aw shucks, self-deprecating way.
Hiding Behind Your Words « Write Anything
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He explained in his aw-shucks style that he had been ‘asked by a lot of people whether this would affect the election.’
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With his phony aw-shucks personality, has won every debate he's been in.
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He and his four-piece band begin politely enough, with the jaunty, aw-shucks acoustic strum of Joanna.
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The veteran director (who discussed his experiences making last year's The Wolfman in-depth with me here and here) previously tried his hand at the superhero genre with Disney's highly-underrated The Rocketeer (released twenty years ago this summer), which was also set in the WWII-era, also had Nazis as its villains, and also revolved around an earnest, aw-shucks hero.
Zaki Hasan: Zaki's Review: Captain America: The First Avengers
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The corn shucks kept it safe from the fallout.
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Their self-deprecating wit, aw-shucks harmonies, and obsession with intoxicating spirits bring to mind Texas roots rockers the Gourds.
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So aren't the protestations of terminal scruffiness and aw-shucks fallibility just a little disingenuous?
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He adds a characteristically aw-shucks postscript: ‘I have no way of justifying what I do, no temporal defence at all.’
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Patch Darragh has an aw-shucks quality that does fine at capturing Romeo's callowness and naïveté.
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Spoken and written substitutes for the word in American English include sugar, sheesh, shoot, and shucks, as in the constructions: Oh, sugar! Aww, shucks!
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In their awkward approaches to the line and aw-shucks attitudes about gutter balls and unmade spares, they represent the complacent, non-competitive face of so many bowlers today.
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He deftly shucks three oysters for his visitor.
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But see the aw-shucks, ‘just plain facts’ tone there?
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Teresa knows very well that the explanation she is about to give is inspired; the `aw, shucks "posturing is pure rhetoric.
RIDDLE ME THIS
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I like that they are showing progression rather than having the way they relate to each remain stagnant – shucks, just like real life.
'Bones' recap: Pops knows best (and now, about Club Jiggle) | EW.com
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Besides being young and quite good-looking in an aw-shucks sort of way, he won election in 2002.
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Guthrie was a middle-class Oklahoman with a calculated aw-shucks cowboy manner, who just happened to be a Communist Party sympathizer and had written for communist newspapers.
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I hop out of the Humvee with a bowlegged cowboy swagger and a Ronald Reagan aw-shucks grin.
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Between songs you get Chris talking straight to the camera, making goofy self-deprecating jokes in his aw-shucks kind of way.
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Because he was worried about his diary - shucks, only a notebook, really - he took it with him.
A MEANS TO EVIL
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With his gosh-darned, aw-shucks demeanor and disarming smile, he is able to insult entire ethnic groups without even realizing he's doing it.
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Shucks, I done got plumb off from what I was tellin 'you jus' ravin ''bout my old furniture and things.
Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves Georgia Narratives, Part 3
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I used the word "shucks" did you notice ? an American word, to offer a hand of friendship across the sea as it were.
Comment Registration: The Experiment Ends Early
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Even straight men, so often skittish and easily threatened, found his aw-shucks persona and mildly sarcastic, I'm-in-on-the-joke attitude congenial.
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He is tough, a fine leader despite his youth and aw-shucks grin.
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This week actor Alan Rachins, better known as the balding popinjay Douglas Brackman of "L.A. Law," shucks his pinstripes for something more daring.
He Left His Briefs Behind
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‘Aww shucks,’ Ruth gave up on an attempt to conceal her own watering eyes.
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That's been the knock on Hill throughout his aw-shucks career.
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In the fall corn was gathered, first by topping it and the tops were then used in making what they called a fodder house, by sticking crotches in the ground and covering with stalks, often being forty rods in length, then the corn was taken off and thrown into piles, shucks all on.
Fifty Years of Slavery in the United States of America
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He was in deep awshucks mode, even admitting twice -- zounds!
Off To The Culture War
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Terry actually says "Oh, shucks!" when complimented on her singing.
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Reduced by an apparently at-sea Cuba Gooding Jr. to a mix of goofy aw-shucks smiles and dead-eyed solemnity, Carson comes across as the least intriguing person in his own story.
TNT's 'Gifted Hands' wasn't made by gifted hands
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not worth shucks
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Anyone who knew him will remember that he always wore a smile and had aw-shucks, down-to-earth personality that masked one of the finest competitors and clutch performers the game has ever seen.
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May everyone else get a better treatment dey did tat? oh shucks. i have asked for change of date to wich dey were reluctant. i hav asked again. i hav booked my flane tickets wich cant be refunded. now wat shall i do????????????????
Undefined
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Shucks Bizrobrain [toe kicks dust like jimmy stewart]
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It had been breathing, but body was the right word just the same; it had only been a worthless thing, like a cast-off towsack which some idiot had stuffed full of weeds or cornshucks.
The Drawing of the Three
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Andrew is refined and Jake has an aw-shucks, country charm.
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But you must remember me only the other day you reprimanded me for a posting I made about your American friend,I in return used the American word "shucks" in a comment as a gesture of friendship,remember me now ?
One of Many?
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I thought of replying with something humble like Aw, shucks, but my ribs were still aching.
SOMEBODY
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Aww, shucks, my uncle's stupid horse just knocked himself into the wall, catch you at the ball!
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_ Told the children yesterday that I wanted them to bring me some corn "shucks," as they call them, which are all left on the stalks in the fields.
Letters from Port Royal Written at the Time of the Civil War (1862-1868)
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I am feeling a little blushy and gushy and aw, gee, shucks-y this week ...
Archive 2007-04-01
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The spectacle of Sarah Palin "aw shucks-ing" her way to mean-spirited accusations reveals a hurter, not a healer.
John O'Neil: Why Voters Must Favor a Healer as Leader
