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How to use backwoods in a sentence

10 example sentences · noun, adjective

Backwoods means partly or wholly uncleared forest, especially in North America. Example: “The drive took forty minutes, stuck behind those farters from the backwoods.”

More sentences with backwoods

  • The drive took forty minutes, stuck behind those farters from the backwoods.From the entry farter
  • Out in the backwoods with only a tent and no radio or plumbing, they were really roughing it.From the entry rough it
  • Although examples could be found throughout the South, rough-and-tumbling was best suited to the backwoods.1995, David Kenneth Wiggins, Sport in America: From Wicked Amusement to National Obsession, page 38. From the entry rough-and-tumble
  • Calvin's younger, and blondly pretty, brother proved to be a budding backwoods aesthete.1993, Wright Morris, Writing my life: an autobiography, page 380. From the entry blondly
  • A josser like myself from the backwoods of Canada would be making all sorts of bloomers.1925, Agatha Christie, The Secret of Chimneys. From the entry josser
  • Those stereotypes of you backwoods gun fondlers being incestuous inbreeders didn't come to be on account of me.2013, JohnMcvie, “Re: MSNBC's 'NewsNation' Uses Chicago Gang Violence To Again Push For Gun Control”, in talk.politics.guns (Usenet). From the entry inbreeder
  • A backwoods bama, a Bible thumper.2020, Yaa Gyasi, Transcendent Kingdom, Viking (2021), page 79. From the entry bama
  • One of the best I knew was Buddy Rogers, a backwoods cracker who cast-netted during the day and spent most of his nights frog-leg hunting.2016, Gilbert L. Voss, A Pioneer Son at Sea, Fishing Tales of Old Florida. From the entry cast-net
  • And as the train rolled along the backwoods section it picked up countless non-paying passengers from among vacationists and boys from camps.1940 November, “Notes and News: Railway Operation Ad Lib”, in Railway Magazine, page 611. From the entry vacationist
  • The table standing in the centre of the floor, ready for the evening meal, was made of unplaned boards, rudely put together by the unskilled hands of the backwoods.1903, Nancy Huston Banks, Round Anvil Rock. From the entry unplaned

Meaning of backwoods

  1. noun Partly or wholly uncleared forest, especially in North America.
  2. noun A remote or sparsely inhabited region, especially in North America; away from big towns and from the influence of modern life.
  3. adjective Pertaining to the backwoods.

Full definition of backwoods

Questions about backwoods in a sentence

How do you use backwoods in a sentence?
Backwoods is used as a noun and adjective. For example: “The drive took forty minutes, stuck behind those farters from the backwoods.”
What is a short sentence with backwoods?
“A backwoods bama, a Bible thumper.”
What does backwoods mean?
Backwoods means partly or wholly uncleared forest, especially in North America.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: backwoods (page history and authors) and the entries each sentence comes from. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws chose the sentences, left out offensive ones and quotations older than 1900, and marked the word in each. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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