How to use rustic in a sentence

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• They roughened the edges of the stone to give it a rustic look.From the entry roughen
• The rudeness of the cabin gave it a rustic charm but little comfort.From the entry rudeness
• The rustics doffed their hats at the clergy.From the entry doff
• The calico-patterned tablecloths were supposed to make the restaurant look rustic; instead, they made it look run down.From the entry calico
• There is a rustic gym behind, and a flagless pole in front.2023, Devika Rege, Quarterlife, Dialogue Books (2025), page 143. From the entry flagless
• I was born in Touliu, a city renowned for tis warm-hearted people and rustic charm.2021, “Recollections of Green City, Best Wishes for TLSH”, in 七十五週年校慶專刊—風華再現, Tou-Liu Senior High School, archived from the original on 25…. From the entry Touliu
• Chadwick cites this as an example of how credulous and ignorant rustic communities were in those days.2021 January 5, Charles Moore, “Heartening news from the NHS front line finally gives us something to clap about”, in The Telegraph. From the entry anti-vaxxery
• Boule refers to the shape of the traditional French breads—puffed rustic rounds scored by the village baker.2016, Sarah Black, One Dough, Ten Breads: Making Great Bread by Hand, page 62. From the entry French bread
• Crisscrossed by dirt roads, the rustic setting in the mountains of Yunnan province offered few amenities.2016 May 31, Zach Montague, “‘Unexplored’ China? Not for Long, the Way These Climbers Are Going”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC…. From the entry Yunnan
• Like Guanyin, Sinwu has a rich Hakka culture and plenty of rustic charm.2008, Cycling in Taiwan, Taiwan Tourism Bureau, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 70, column 2. From the entry Sinwu
• When rustic rites become cosmopolitan fashions, the artifice is often more interesting than the original folkway.1997, Charles Arthur Willard, “Rhetoric’s Lot”, in Alan G. Gross, William M. Keith, editors, Rhetorical Hermeneutics: Invention and…. From the entry folkway
• The hang-ten pros consider the treacherous Banzai Pipeline, on Oahu's rustic North Shore, the ultimate test.1992, Travel Holiday, Volume 175, volume 175, Travel Magazine, Incorporated, page 82. From the entry airgasm
• A civilized hotel is a little urban globule floating like scum on a rustic pool.1926, C. E. M. Joad, The Babbitt Warren, London: Trubner & Co, page 19. From the entry globule
• Then the Greeks were nearer akin to rustic manners of the present day.1923 November 10, O[liver] W[endell] Holmes [Jr.], edited by Mark DeWolfe Howe, Holmes-Laski Letters: The Correspondence of Mr. Justice…. From the entry tremendosity
• I wondered, often, it did not turn her head—this tribute of rustic admiration.1900, Irving Bacheller, chapter 20, in Eben Holden: A Tale of the North Country. From the entry turn someone's head
• Instead, they have chosen rough-sawn cedar for rustic warmth, embossed wallpapers for texture, wood panelling for Asian drama.2012 December, Sue Hoffart, “Seaside Wellington cottage”, in NZHouse&Garden. From the entry gibbed
• Why not learn to build rustic furniture?2010, Neil Atkinson, The Shrewd Christian, page 65. From the entry kick up
• As Paban sings, he twangs a khomok hand drum or thunders away at the dubki, a sort of rustic tambourine.2009 September 11, William Dalrymple, “Singing and dancing with the Bauls of Bengal”, in Guardian. From the entry dubki
• Now I was sure psychologists had determined that a rustic bedroom was the most soothing ambiance for waking up from dead.2009, Erik, The Snow Boy. From the entry frillsome
• A century ago, the cities of Taipei County were rustic faming societies made up of mostly aboriginal tribes.2008, Scott B. Freiberger, “Taiwan From A to Z”, in Taipei in a Day, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 123, column 1. From the entry Taipei
• A galette is a rustic, free-form fruit tart, baked directly on a lined baking sheet rather than in a tart pan.2007, Carole Bloom, “Stone Fruit”, in The Essential Baker: The Comprehensive Guide to Baking with Chocolate, Fruit, Nuts, Spices and Other…. From the entry galette
• The dinner was in the rustic, decidedly unposh Hungry Cattleman restaurant, which featured steaks and baked potatoes and baked beans.2007, Ruth Wind, Miranda's Revenge, →ISBN, page 174. From the entry unposh
• To the west of Yangmingshan, and easily accessible by MRT from Taipei, is the rustic hot-springs resort of Beitou, Taiwan’s oldest.2007, Phil Macdonald, National Geographic Traveler: Taiwan, 2nd edition, National Geographic Society, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 92. From the entry Danshuei
• They include the rustic cutting chicories sometimes found growing wild in Italy, the burgundy-colored heading radicchios, and the elegant Belgian endive.1999, Rosalind Creasy, “Italian Garden Encyclopedia [Chicories (cicorie): Cichorium intybus]”, in The Edible Italian Garden, North…. From the entry chicory
• Grants, or the homely, rustic tinkle of a wheelbarrow full of rubies being jounced along over a nightclub floor.1957, The Monthly Record, volume 61, page 22. From the entry ruby
• Unsteadily a rustic bridge bestrode its dark waters, a rustic humpbacked bridge, in a state of extreme dilapidation.1953, Samuel Beckett, Watt, [Paris]: Olympia Press, →OCLC. From the entry humpbacked
• Lady Romilly also writes both prose and poetry, and has made a collection of old-fashioned pottery known to rustics as "joanies".1906 April 29, “Bridal and Other Gowns”, in The New York Times, volume 55, number 17627, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company…. From the entry joanie
• After I check into my single room—a rustic BYO-bed-sheets situation—I return to the common area and settle in for the afternoon’s presentations.2023 August 31, Frankie de la Cretaz, “Postcard from Camp Gaylore”, in Cosmopolitan. From the entry byo
• Come in for a gawp at the sweets and pastries that run three rows deep at this rustically contemporary (or contemporarily rustic) cake shop.2019, The Rough Guide to South America on a Budget. From the entry gawp
• The car was parked in close to the rustic fence, under the lime trees, and their sticky exudations had already stippled the windscreen.2004, Alan Hollinghurst, chapter 7, in The Line of Beauty […], London: Picador, →ISBN. From the entry exudation
• I was far more taken with the pastry chef’s nightly dinner rolls: cornmealy anadama, rustic country Italian, soft potato flecked with spring chives.2000, Gourmet, volume 60, New York, N.Y.: Condé Nast, page 150. From the entry cornmealy
• The farmyard showed no utilitarian sights and gave forth no rustic smells; it had been laid over with close green turf like a bowling green.1951, John Wyndham, The Day of the Triffids, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, published 1954, page 218. From the entry spick
• Vol One Chapter 9." The singer and guitarist has a gutsy voice, both rustic and soulful lending itself well to country, punk, bluegrass, soul and rock.2019 April 26, Brian Tucker, “Live music: 7 Wilmington shows to see, May 2-5”, in Star News Online. From the entry gutsy
• But some of the gathered skirts, with an extra tire of fabric around the middle, looked dustily Yamamoto, with pious allusions to women in bonnets and rustic stoles.2008 February 27, Cathy Horyn, “Not Everyone Spins Their Wheels”, in New York Times. From the entry dustily
• In the early days of the Protectorate, the fqih or clerk-interpreter was often an Algerian who despised the local Arabs as rustics and regarded the Berbers as scarcely human.1973, Robin Leonard Bidwell, Morocco Under Colonial Rule, Routledge, page 171. From the entry fqih
• He was all out for elevating and ennoblising them, and that is why his presentation of rustic characters is marked with a genuine note of sympathy and admiration.1960, J.N. Mudra, S.C. Mundra, A History of English Literature, Volume 2. From the entry ennoblise
• Glancing up at the rustic porch she remarked in a lower tone, “We’re in luck, children, Auntie hasn’t even seen us, let alone noticing our Johnless state.1917, Grace Gordon [pseudonym; Josephine Chase], “A Disquieting Voice”, in Patsy Carroll at Wilderness Lodge, New York, N.Y.: Cupples &…. From the entry johnless

Meaning of rustic

1. adjective Country-styled or pastoral; rural.
2. adjective Unfinished or roughly finished.
3. adjective Crude, rough.

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Questions about rustic in a sentence

How do you use rustic in a sentence?

Rustic is used as an adjective and noun. For example: “They roughened the edges of the stone to give it a rustic look.”

What is a short sentence with rustic?

“Why not learn to build rustic furniture?”

What does rustic mean?

Rustic means country-styled or pastoral; rural.