How to Use hoedown in a Sentence

hoedown

noun
  • There was an early-evening hoedown hosted by the Times Squares, a gay and lesbian square-dancing troupe.
    — The Editors, Curbed, 2 Dec. 2024
  • Still, the easiest and best way to catch Hallmark’s latest holly hoedown is in the moment.
    — Angela Watercutter, WIRED, 24 Nov. 2023
  • By my unofficial count, there were at least 16 rodents having a hoedown inside the shop.
    — Tim Carman, Washington Post, 4 Oct. 2019
  • By the sound of this grinning tune, the impending apocalypse would seem to warrant a hoedown, not a nuclear bunker.
    — Morgan Enos, Billboard, 28 Mar. 2018
  • Above the hoedown, Lincoln and a bouncing bee watch impassively.
    — Paul Hodgins, Orange County Register, 17 Mar. 2017
  • The hoedown held this past Friday brought out some 300 supporters, many of whom sported cowboy hats and boots.
    — Glendale News-Press, 30 Sep. 2019
  • Some cartons look like advertisements for down-on-the-farm hoedowns, a fantasy of cheery chickens and farm folk in a quilting bee or at a barn-raising.
    — Adrienne Rose Johnson, Bon Appetit, 27 Mar. 2017
  • Some cartons look like advertisements for down-on-the-farm hoedowns, a fantasy of cheery chickens and farm folk in a quilting bee or at a barn-raising.
    — Adrienne Rose Johnson, Bon Appetit, 27 Mar. 2017
  • But harmonic subversions slip in, and a quasi-hoedown evolves into jazzy syncopations.
    — Scott Cantrell, Dallas News, 18 Feb. 2020
  • And a deliriously happy Tyler, the Creator joined them onstage for an impromptu hoedown.
    — Seth Abramovitch, The Hollywood Reporter, 13 Nov. 2023
  • Friends made the party their own personal hoedown Saturday at the Irving, Texas, hookah lounge.
    — Char Adams, NBC News, 1 Apr. 2024
  • The novel hoedown was a preliminary to the fifth national square dance convention which opens in San Diego today.
    — Merrie Monteagudo, San Diego Union-Tribune, 22 June 2021
  • There’s one particular moment, when Kristen Wiig does this little hoedown in the middle of the sketch while a banjo plays.
    — Devon Ivie, Vulture, 19 Dec. 2024
  • Rock-star dad is brave whether in his high-water Levis, cowboy boots and a straw hat, dancing the hoedown with 20 first-graders, or attempting a hair bun for his little girl’s dance recital.
    — Jaclyn Stapp, PEOPLE.com, 18 June 2018
  • On leave with her squadron in Wyoming — the pretext for some whispers of swaying cowboy hoedown music — Jess falls in love with a rancher, Eric, and gets pregnant.
    — Zachary Woolfe, New York Times, 29 Oct. 2023
  • The new episodes, which dropped on Wednesday, picked up right after that Western hoedown with Nick and Annie chatting over late-night Taco Bell.
    — Tiney Ricciardi, Denver Post, 16 Oct. 2025
  • Bridging the hoedown and the ballroom, Beyoncé alternates between angelic croons and fierce commands over a thumping bassline and a springy acoustic guitar.
    — Stephen Kearse, TIME, 9 Dec. 2024
  • The time was 1951, and the place was Ottawa, where the woman was attending a hoedown at the home of Canada’s governor general.
    — Margalit Fox, New York Times, 4 Mar. 2024
  • Fifteen minutes away, in Milford, FC Cincinnati held its third practice/workout/get-together/hoedown.
    — Paul Daugherty, Cincinnati.com, 13 May 2020
  • In reality, Beyoncé crafted the album with so much verve that there really isn’t a way for Cowboy Carter to not be the ultimate hoedown.
    — Kyle Denis, Billboard, 3 Feb. 2025
  • Beyoncé’s latest country hit (a first for the singer) has TikTok leaning into #cowboycore, with rodeo fashion and hoedown dance routines making the rounds on the platform.
    — Lucy Maguire, Vogue, 23 Oct. 2025
  • Anderson finds a stylistic sweet spot in this piece, which simultaneously hints at hoedowns, Vivaldi concertos, Bach toccatas and bebop.
    — New York Times, 22 Apr. 2020
  • Turning down his studio’s offer of a cast party at glitzy Studio 54, Duvall hosted a heartfelt hoedown in his New York City apartment.
    — Los Angeles Times, 16 Feb. 2026
  • Perhaps you’ll be asked to act in a moving-picture show, participate in a mustache contest, take a drawing class, help a gang rob a bank or inspire a bashful Calico resident to ask a lady to the afternoon hoedown.
    — Todd Martens, Los Angeles Times, 12 Aug. 2024
  • The second party was a full-on hoedown, for Kylie Jenner's former personal assistant, Victoria Villarroel.
    — Kelsey Stiegman, Seventeen, 9 Mar. 2020
  • Shot mostly in the Arizona desert, the film marvels over the animals that live in such an austere climate while also focusing on familiar scenarios, like two male tortoises tussling over a female or scorpions doing a mating dance to hoedown music.
    — Scott Tobias, New York Times, 1 Apr. 2020
  • When Beyoncé brought the Cowboy Carter Tour to Atlanta, Inches hosted a hoedown complete with games, photo opportunities, cocktails and hot dogs.
    — Kaitlyn Harvey, AJC.com, 24 June 2026
  • Guests would then float through the world of Hanna-Barbera characters including a colorful cave, a wedding in the land of Little People, a hillbilly-esque hoedown, an elaborate water world, a spooky haunted house and a circus finale.
    — Briana Rice, Cincinnati.com, 21 Aug. 2019
  • The 1927 Martin 00-42 played at the Opry by Paul Warmack, a mechanic by trade who led the Gully Jumpers, a hoedown band whose members all came from rural communities around Nashville.
    — Marcus K. Dowling, The Tennessean, 22 Aug. 2025

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