How do you use Honky in a sentence? See 10+ example sentences showing how this word appears in different contexts, including synonyms like whitey or white, plus the exact meaning.
Honky in a sentence
Honky meaning
- A white (Caucasian) person.
- A factory hand or general unskilled worker.
Using Honky
- The main meaning on this page is: A white (Caucasian) person. | A factory hand or general unskilled worker.
- Useful related words include: whitey, honkey, honkie, white.
- In the example corpus, honky often appears in combinations such as: honky tonk, and honky, the honky.
Context around Honky
- Average sentence length in these examples: 23.5 words
- Position in the sentence: 3 start, 8 middle, 9 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Honky
- In this selection, "honky" usually appears near the end of the sentence. The average example has 23.5 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, playing, throughout, ace, tonk and tonks stand out and add context to how "honky" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include a dirty honky and a very honky tonk paper. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "honky" sits close to words such as aaf, aalen and abrogated, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with honky
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Hedley started playing honky-tonks in Nashville when he was just 19 years old. (14 words)
Max Jackson will perform at the Moonshiners Honky Tonk bar on Thursday, January 25. (14 words)
Alan Jackson helped bridge traditional and modern country through his straightforward storytelling and honky-tonk influence. (16 words)
Sixty-plus years after its release, fans still hear the pleading words made famous by Cline— I’m crazy for trying and crazy for crying / And I’m crazy for loving you—throughout honky-tonk bars in Music City today. (40 words)
Parker McCollum and Brooks & Dunn held it down on the Mane Stage before Stapleton headlined, while Tyler Childers shut down the Palomino and Lost Frequencies played the final DJ set in Diplo’s Honky Tonk. (35 words)
Comprising upright bass, a honky tonk pianist, who also played trumpet and accordion, exquisite pedal steel, second guitar and drums, the Blue Drifters raised Crockett’s already astonishing voice to near divine. (32 words)
Example sentences (20)
Comprising upright bass, a honky tonk pianist, who also played trumpet and accordion, exquisite pedal steel, second guitar and drums, the Blue Drifters raised Crockett’s already astonishing voice to near divine.
Hedley started playing honky-tonks in Nashville when he was just 19 years old.
Parker McCollum and Brooks & Dunn held it down on the Mane Stage before Stapleton headlined, while Tyler Childers shut down the Palomino and Lost Frequencies played the final DJ set in Diplo’s Honky Tonk.
Sixty-plus years after its release, fans still hear the pleading words made famous by Cline— I’m crazy for trying and crazy for crying / And I’m crazy for loving you—throughout honky-tonk bars in Music City today.
So if Fort Frances is a rural northern community now, it was a very honky-tonk paper mill and logging community back then," said Judson.
The whimsical love song sounds like it’s backed by Ernest Tubb’s ace honky-tonk outfit, the Texas Troubadours.
Alan Jackson helped bridge traditional and modern country through his straightforward storytelling and honky-tonk influence.
He’s previously mentioned that he’s working on an album that’ll be reminiscent of songs he grew up with that have a “honky tonk ’90s sound”.
Jason Petty will perform “Hank and My Honky Tonk Heroes” at the Carolina Civic Center in downtown Lumberton on Feb. 3 at 7 p.m.
Max Jackson will perform at the Moonshiners Honky Tonk bar on Thursday, January 25.
Nashville's "wildness" ranking likely comes from the city's booming bachelorette scene, energetic nightlife, and let's not forget, the honky tonks lining Broadway.
On if he had a favorite between Rick Rude and Honky Tonk Man’s promo skills: “Not really.
On it, the track opens with honky-tonk violins, as if a barn party is about to start.
The Apple Vision Pro-wearing Auburn fan might have gotten drunk at a honky tonk, stumbled over to the Apple store on Broadway and purchased the goggles.
Tito and Honky Tonk Man get us started as Ventura and Monsoon note HTM is the longest reigning IC Champion of all time.
Billy famously wrote 10 out of the 11 songs on Waylon Jennings’ 1973 outlaw country breakthrough album Honky Tonk Heroes.
One of them, Daniel, used to call me a “sweaty Arab” and in return I called him a “dirty honky”.
She asked for a tissue and whooped a laugh, teaching us all another lesson: even honky-tonk goddesses are susceptible to seasonal sickness.
The bluegrass sound spreads in post-war America and Hank Williams becomes a honky-tonk star.
The de facto title track from Yoakam's debut landed at No. 4 on the charts on the strength of vintage sounds -- fiddle, honky-tonk guitar, strolling rhythms -- and classic sentiments.
Common combinations with honky
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts: