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How to use yokels in a sentence

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

Sentence Examples
Like Ostade's yokels, the topers of Brouwer's Antwerp frequent a lower sort of tavern than those of Teniers and Steen.
She confirmed my suspicions of country folk being idiotic yokels as correct.
Well, guess what kids, if the beef industry goes, it's not just going to be the country yokels that are out of a job.
They paraded: yokels, a boy dressed as a watering can, a Mickey Mouse, a couple of Cossacks.
The song's condescension towards yokels is reminiscent of professional investors' disdain for their retail counterparts.
Maybe you think we're being a little hard on the people of this town, by calling them yokels and inferring that they're nothing more than a bunch of undereducated rubes.
So typical of these yokels to make such a tasteless error of judgment.
Following Shakespeare's plot closely, he gives us absconding lovers, local amdram yokels and bands of woodlanders led by the supernatural Sylvia and Angel.
Soviet propaganda portrayed the western Ukrainians as brutal, reactionary yokels.
Don't be surprised if your contacts lack a southern accent: many Atlantans grew up outside the South, or were told not to sound like yokels as children.
But as the new parliament, well stocked with what many educated Egyptians regarded as bearded yokels, fell into bickering and grandstanding, a backlash began to build.
We gazed like yokels at the shops and what to us seemed to be brilliantly lit stores containing articles which were completely beyond our understanding.
The officials took them for simple yokels or mad and left them alone, allowing them to continue with their illegal activities.
Examples from Classical Literature
It was into this cage that the body of Mr. winterberry was to be put to make a public holiday for yokels!
The tango and the turkey-trot had spread overseas, and royalties trod on Persis' toes as they bungled the steps like yokels.
But even the basest of the yokels and groundlings could not make merry over the cozening of so noble a gentleman!
This was something of which the yokels, or men of the plow, often complained.
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