How to Use backwoods in a Sentence

backwoods

adjective
  • Others said Fairbanks was a backwoods wasteland not worth my time.
    — Alaska Dispatch News, 7 Sep. 2017
  • Yet rather than occurring deep within the backwoods, poaching most often took place less than 400 feet from a road.
    — Lyndsie Bourgon, Smithsonian, 6 Sep. 2017
  • The tadpoles of western toads squiggle, and water skeeters perform a graceful backwoods ballet.
    — Lynda V. Mapes, The Seattle Times, 27 May 2018
  • These weren’t your traditional backwoods Klan members or thug skinheads.
    — Michael Harriot, The Root, 7 Sep. 2017
  • The two writers took the long way home, stopping to talk with conjurers, tramps, convicts, and backwoods preachers all over the South.
    — Casey N. Cep, The New Yorker, 7 May 2018
  • No night out in Montréal, and no backwoods party at the cabane á sucre is complete without a big steaming pile of poutine.
    — Cnt Editors, Condé Nast Traveler, 1 Oct. 2018
  • In another scene, a couple backwoods Billy-Bobs yell across the cart about losing something.
    — OrlandoSentinel.com, 12 Oct. 2017
  • The inhabitants are men, none identified, who have chosen to live in backwoods isolation.
    — William Meyers, WSJ, 15 Nov. 2018
  • Many believe the backwoods blood feud was rooted in the Civil War, but the bitterness was perpetuated by disputes over timber rights and even a pig.
    — Bruce Schreiner, The Seattle Times, 26 May 2017
  • User interface foibles aside, nothing has ever quite recaptured SC1's blend of backwoods sci-fi and high-concept horror.
    — Steven Strom, Ars Technica, 21 Aug. 2017
  • In keeping with the region's offbeat, backwoods bohemian ethos, places throughout southern Illinois will offer an array of novel attractions.
    — Ted Gregory, chicagotribune.com, 18 Aug. 2017
  • My father did not have your typical Southern accent, like some redneck villain in a backwoods thriller or some highfalutin' lawyer in a movie based on a John Grisham novel.
    — Tyler Coates, Esquire, 18 June 2017
  • Gwen documented the backwoods getaway on her Instagram and eliminated any doubts that the California native can't kick it with a country boy.
    — Kelly O'Sullivan, Country Living, 1 Apr. 2019
  • That would be Mary, a young woman raised in Tennessee, first by zealously religious parents who home-schooled her from a backwoods cabin and then, more conventionally, by an aunt.
    — Adelle Waldman, chicagotribune.com, 16 June 2017
  • The wolves have helped to maintain the ecosystem by culling a moose herd that otherwise would overeat the island’s vegetation, while delighting tourists with their eerie howls and occasional appearances on backwoods hiking trails.
    — Washington Post, 16 Mar. 2018
  • Like Parker, Edna grew up in Arkansas, and was born in a backwoods town near the Oklahoma border, in 1910.
    — Trine Tsouderos, chicagotribune.com, 2 May 2017
  • John Krasinski, who also directed and co-wrote the new horror-thriller, and Emily Blunt, his wife in real life, live with their two children in a quiet, backwoods cabin away from the world.
    — Chris Foran, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 5 Apr. 2018
  • Forty years later, a backwoods hunter from Kentucky who grew up in a log cabin won the presidency, in part by mythologizing his own origins on the frontier in terms of the natural aristocracy of the common man.
    — Sarah Churchwell, The New York Review of Books, 7 Feb. 2019
  • In its infancy in the late 1950s, the CMA needed to convince the outside world that country wasn’t some backwoods niche, but a viable radio format and bona fide pop competitor.
    — Jewly Hight, Billboard, 27 July 2017
  • Danes today tend to think of Swedes as uptight metrosexuals; Swedes see their neighbors across the Oresund as jaywalking, pot-smoking anarchists; and both agree that Norwegians are dull, backwoods hicks with an annoying amount of oil wealth.
    — Lisa Abend, New York Times, 12 July 2017
  • America has struggled with the urban-rural divide for centuries, stretching all the way back to when Manhattan’s own Alexander Hamilton fixed his sights on backwoods whiskey distilleries as a revenue source for the new Republic, prompting rebellion.
    — Alec MacGillis, New York Times, 1 Mar. 2018

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