How to Use backwoods in a Sentence

backwoods

1 of 2 noun

• In short time, the boy will sit at the backwoods altar where his father had knelt to appeal to God.
  — Jake Coyle, Star Tribune, 16 Sep. 2020
• Born in 1831, Kelso grew up in backwoods Ohio and Missouri.
  — Gerard Helferich, WSJ, 19 Dec. 2021
• Some Monacans left the colony, while others moved into the Virginia backwoods.
  — Andrew Lawler, National Geographic, 24 Sep. 2020
• Their only cell service in the backwoods was through the internet -- and all of them lost power around 7 p.m.
  — oregonlive, 20 Sep. 2020
• Sounds like as good a reason as any for traipsing around the backwoods for several days with a film crew.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 2 June 2021
• The two writers took the long way home, stopping to talk with conjurers, tramps, convicts, and backwoods preachers all over the South.
  — Margaret Talbot, The New Yorker, 5 Aug. 2021
• The guest rooms are outfitted with furnishings that would fit well in the backwoods manor of a Gilded Age robber baron.
  — Boyce Upholt, Outside Online, 10 Aug. 2022
• The backwoods horror comedy explodes tropes and is just pretty darn fun and clever.
  — Brian Truitt, USA TODAY, 21 Oct. 2020
• Maggie Rogers blew minds with her 2019 debut, showcasing a blend of backwoods Maryland folk and French club thump.
  — Spin Staff, SPIN, 3 June 2022
• Most of the backwoods turns on Nelson’s resume have been unabashedly comic.
  — Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 7 Sep. 2021
• The cooler will serve as your backwoods ceviche chilling station.
  — Sunset Magazine, 13 May 2022
• Snow tires are your best way to keep a grip on the roads this winter, and there are tons of options available for everything from tiny sedans to backwoods-worthy pickup trucks.
  — Field & Stream, 26 Feb. 2021
• Mostly, though, it’s about Tim Blake Nelson finding a new power in his backwoods passion.
  — Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 7 Sep. 2021
• Climbing stands were made for transporting, so don’t get a big, clunky one that is impossible to take to your backwoods honey hole.
  — The Editors, Field & Stream, 22 Aug. 2019
• Subsequently, many of the backwoods meth labs scattered throughout the U.S. moved to Mexico.
  — Bradford Betz, Fox News, 5 Aug. 2022
• Much like the franchise's clan of backwoods-dwelling maniacs, the Wrong Turn franchise has proven remarkably resilient since the Eliza Dushku-starring first film was released back in 2003.
  — Clark Collis, EW.com, 16 Dec. 2020
• In this remake of the 1974 original, Leatherface, a powertool-wielding killer, and his family from the backwoods hunt five friends driving through the Lone Star State.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 23 Oct. 2021
• What is normal in the backwoods of the panhandle or on the prairies of north-central Florida is ludicrously alien in Miami Beach.
  — Lauren Groff, The Atlantic, 21 June 2020
• Its social codes forced them to meet their co-authors, a white couple, in a car parked on a backwoods road to discuss their findings, all the while under surveillance by the local sheriff.
  — Gaiutra Bahadur, The New Republic, 25 Nov. 2020
• The man accused of driving a pickup truck filled with Molotov cocktails and other deadly weapons to the nation’s capital lives in a brick ranch house in the backwoods of Alabama.
  — NBC News, 17 Jan. 2021
• Jewel had endured a tumultuous childhood in the backwoods of Alaska and had immersed herself in the subject of mental health over the ensuing years.
  — Katherine Sayre, WSJ, 12 Mar. 2022
• As American dirt racing's wunderkind, Pastrana took the lead on promoting and pushing limits in this next stage of the sport, too, bringing his backwoods skills and bike jumps onto the track.
  — Joan Meiners, USA TODAY, 1 Dec. 2022
• Hiking and biking on backwoods trails offer travelers a couple of ways to explore — and still keep their distance from others.
  — Rosemary McClure, Los Angeles Times, 14 Jan. 2021
• Consequently, mushers had to huddle together at checkpoints, seek out the homes of gracious backwoods friends, or remain in the cold.
  — Alice George, Smithsonian Magazine, 11 Mar. 2020
• Dick’s Sporting Goods has deals on bikes, basketball hoops and ping pong tables as well as outdoor, camping and hiking gear for the backyard or the backwoods, plus free shipping on orders of $49 or more.
  — oregonlive, 14 June 2020
• Take the most fire-breathing preacher in backwoods Mississippi.
  — William McGurn, WSJ, 21 June 2021
• Looking out the window, he was taken aback as always by the beautiful landscape of the area, and by the cultural disconnect of the California backwoods.
  — Brontez Purnell, The Atlantic, 21 Jan. 2021
• Then there’s Munro, just writing story after story while living quietly in the backwoods.
  — Oliver Munday, The Atlantic, 23 July 2021
• And that is exactly the motive driving the Dunstan family of city slickers slip-sliding through the southern Colorado backwoods.
  — CBS News, 12 July 2015
• Meacham does not portray Lincoln’s backstory as mere iconography — the log cabin, the backwoods education, the rail splitting.
  — Douglass K. Daniel, Chicago Tribune, 25 Oct. 2022

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backwoods

2 of 2 adjective

• The two writers took the long way home, stopping to talk with conjurers, tramps, convicts, and backwoods preachers all over the South.
  — Casey N. Cep, The New Yorker, 7 May 2018
• Others said Fairbanks was a backwoods wasteland not worth my time.
  — Alaska Dispatch News, 7 Sep. 2017
• Yet rather than occurring deep within the backwoods, poaching most often took place less than 400 feet from a road.
  — Lyndsie Bourgon, Smithsonian, 6 Sep. 2017
• Like Parker, Edna grew up in Arkansas, and was born in a backwoods town near the Oklahoma border, in 1910.
  — Trine Tsouderos, chicagotribune.com, 2 May 2017
• In another scene, a couple backwoods Billy-Bobs yell across the cart about losing something.
  — OrlandoSentinel.com, 12 Oct. 2017
• No night out in Montréal, and no backwoods party at the cabane á sucre is complete without a big steaming pile of poutine.
  — Cnt Editors, Condé Nast Traveler, 1 Oct. 2018
• The tadpoles of western toads squiggle, and water skeeters perform a graceful backwoods ballet.
  — Lynda V. Mapes, The Seattle Times, 27 May 2018
• In its infancy in the late 1950s, the CMA needed to convince the outside world that country wasn’t some backwoods niche, but a viable radio format and bona fide pop competitor.
  — Jewly Hight, Billboard, 27 July 2017
• Many believe the backwoods blood feud was rooted in the Civil War, but the bitterness was perpetuated by disputes over timber rights and even a pig.
  — Bruce Schreiner, The Seattle Times, 26 May 2017
• John Krasinski, who also directed and co-wrote the new horror-thriller, and Emily Blunt, his wife in real life, live with their two children in a quiet, backwoods cabin away from the world.
  — Chris Foran, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 5 Apr. 2018
• The inhabitants are men, none identified, who have chosen to live in backwoods isolation.
  — William Meyers, WSJ, 15 Nov. 2018
• My father did not have your typical Southern accent, like some redneck villain in a backwoods thriller or some highfalutin' lawyer in a movie based on a John Grisham novel.
  — Tyler Coates, Esquire, 18 June 2017
• These weren’t your traditional backwoods Klan members or thug skinheads.
  — Michael Harriot, The Root, 7 Sep. 2017
• User interface foibles aside, nothing has ever quite recaptured SC1's blend of backwoods sci-fi and high-concept horror.
  — Steven Strom, Ars Technica, 21 Aug. 2017
• That would be Mary, a young woman raised in Tennessee, first by zealously religious parents who home-schooled her from a backwoods cabin and then, more conventionally, by an aunt.
  — Adelle Waldman, chicagotribune.com, 16 June 2017
• The wolves have helped to maintain the ecosystem by culling a moose herd that otherwise would overeat the island’s vegetation, while delighting tourists with their eerie howls and occasional appearances on backwoods hiking trails.
  — Washington Post, 16 Mar. 2018
• Gwen documented the backwoods getaway on her Instagram and eliminated any doubts that the California native can't kick it with a country boy.
  — Kelly O'Sullivan, Country Living, 1 Apr. 2019
• In keeping with the region's offbeat, backwoods bohemian ethos, places throughout southern Illinois will offer an array of novel attractions.
  — Ted Gregory, chicagotribune.com, 18 Aug. 2017
• Danes today tend to think of Swedes as uptight metrosexuals; Swedes see their neighbors across the Oresund as jaywalking, pot-smoking anarchists; and both agree that Norwegians are dull, backwoods hicks with an annoying amount of oil wealth.
  — Lisa Abend, New York Times, 12 July 2017
• But any connection to a backwoods Gucci is purely coincidental, Ms. Hoffman said.
  — Ruth La Ferla, New York Times, 14 July 2016
• America has struggled with the urban-rural divide for centuries, stretching all the way back to when Manhattan’s own Alexander Hamilton fixed his sights on backwoods whiskey distilleries as a revenue source for the new Republic, prompting rebellion.
  — Alec MacGillis, New York Times, 1 Mar. 2018
• The two writers took the long way home, stopping to talk with conjurers, tramps, convicts, and backwoods preachers all over the South.
  — Casey N. Cep, The New Yorker, 7 May 2018
• Others said Fairbanks was a backwoods wasteland not worth my time.
  — Alaska Dispatch News, 7 Sep. 2017
• Yet rather than occurring deep within the backwoods, poaching most often took place less than 400 feet from a road.
  — Lyndsie Bourgon, Smithsonian, 6 Sep. 2017
• Like Parker, Edna grew up in Arkansas, and was born in a backwoods town near the Oklahoma border, in 1910.
  — Trine Tsouderos, chicagotribune.com, 2 May 2017
• In another scene, a couple backwoods Billy-Bobs yell across the cart about losing something.
  — OrlandoSentinel.com, 12 Oct. 2017
• No night out in Montréal, and no backwoods party at the cabane á sucre is complete without a big steaming pile of poutine.
  — Cnt Editors, Condé Nast Traveler, 1 Oct. 2018
• The tadpoles of western toads squiggle, and water skeeters perform a graceful backwoods ballet.
  — Lynda V. Mapes, The Seattle Times, 27 May 2018
• In its infancy in the late 1950s, the CMA needed to convince the outside world that country wasn’t some backwoods niche, but a viable radio format and bona fide pop competitor.
  — Jewly Hight, Billboard, 27 July 2017
• Many believe the backwoods blood feud was rooted in the Civil War, but the bitterness was perpetuated by disputes over timber rights and even a pig.
  — Bruce Schreiner, The Seattle Times, 26 May 2017

Last Updated: 22 Jul 2024