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How to use bumpkins in a sentence

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

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We country bumpkins are older and wiser and financially poorer now because of increased parish rates.
Country bumpkins in red rural areas who depend on tourists from urban areas but vote Republican can forget our money.
Ministers think only a few country bumpkins are going to be affected, but what am I supposed to do?
Our first game against Chelsea was billed as the country bumpkins against the city boys.
A lot of the people I've seen hunting have actually gone in anoraks, and who most townies would describe as thick country bumpkins.
Y'see, these country bumpkins from Ontario had the audacity and nerve to cover part one of Pink Floyd's classic The Wall.
Once seen as the tipple for students and country bumpkins, cider is now the drink of the moment.
And he wasn't about fall for the trap the country bumpkins at Auburn laid for him.
The country bumpkins, arriving here to gawk, are now more materially behind the urban living average than ever.
Subtle changes are taking place, though, in our attitudes towards these country bumpkins.
Few urbanites understand the panic the city brings on in country bumpkins.
And that makes it more than serviceable for the normal run of fanatical ideologues, confirmed partisans and weak-minded bumpkins to make use of endlessly.
Although her elder sister Nancy had immortalised their parents as upper-class bumpkins in the Oxfordshire countryside, their background was in fact exotic.
Also included in the mix are the two comic country bumpkins, stereotypical toothless hillbillies with their pipes, dilapidated hats, and cargo of farm livestock.
But Semi was an obstinate, arrogant, crazy man who acted like he was trying to shock some country bumpkins.
The sort of stuff that thimbleriggers and sleight-of-hand artists peddled off the backs of wagons to gawping farmhands and country bumpkins back in the 19th century.
Except for an ineffectual priest and an imam, whose houses of worship sit side by side, those men are hotheaded bumpkins who profess brotherhood until the tiniest provocation incites them to blind fury.
If you country bumpkins only knew what I left behind!
I thought we must look a sorry bunch of country bumpkins gazing like this.
Mr. Speaker, there is no shortage of bumpkins who have lost their shirts in dodgy money deals, but the minister traded away Falconbridge and Inco, Canada's international mining leaders, and he got nothing in return.
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Examples from Classical Literature
But there were some boobies and bumpkins there, who, by their intense greenness, must have come from the heart and centre of all verdure.
But think not that this famous town has only harpooneers, cannibals, and bumpkins to show her visitors.
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