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How to use yokel in a sentence

Looking for sentences and phrases with the word yokel? Here are some examples.

Sentence Examples
Someone commented on my yokel version, which for ages I have thought was the received pronunciation of the word.
I must have looked like a real country yokel, certainly I felt one, I felt the heat rising and my cheeks were burning with embarrassment.
But suddenly the yokel, rolling about in the gale of boxing gloves, struck one blow and knocked science, speed and footwork as cold as a well-digger's posterior.
Morris dancing yokel Cuddy Banks provides much amusement when he befriends the devil dog, oblivious to his sinister powers.
It is not the forelock-tugging yokel that so many members seem to want to think is still a farm worker.
Related: Experience: my face was stolen online At first, Big Bird wasn't a major character, and Jim Henson, who developed the characters, said to play him like a goofy yokel from the country.
For all its Baudelairian modernity, there are throwbacks to an earlier time: the straw-hatted yokel in Moseley Weir, Morning looks as if he has wandered in from a Constable.
Examples from Classical Literature
In his own undergraduate days the yokel and the mob were outside the pale of the gownsman's interests.
It is the militia-man, the yokel, standing facing the captain and gesticulating at him.
Over these I rejoiced like a yokel with a pocketful of butterscotch and peanuts.
Here he might be the director, but on ancient Earth he would be only one more gaping, lead-footed yokel.
This man was a yokel of no interest to us, apart from this one episode in his career.
Thebold had been chagrined at learning that Don Cort was not the yokel he had taken him for.
This yokel from the woods and mountains needed a little coaxing.
McAllister hastily tried to assume the expression and manner of a yokel.
Tristrem looked at him much as a yokel at a fair might look at a wizard.
They are as unpardonable as the yokel rhetoric of our British friends.
Seeing that you go from town to town, I ween you can outdo a poor country yokel at tidings.
The yokel was a year or two older, was taller, and stones heavier.
I have a notion that I sat there staring and listening like a yokel at a play.
In simple taste and homely inclination this much-travelled map was more simple and homely than the veriest yokel.
And, translating the word yokel for the benefit of the ladies, I apprehend your meaning to be, that this attempt was not made by a countryman?
Their Heart Of Nowhere is situated somewhere between the Mumfords' gentrified yokel pop and Coldplay's stadium rousers.
If that isn't a Zummerset or Devon yokel, sink me for a landlubber!
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