How do you use Yokel in a sentence? See 4 example sentences showing how this word appears in different contexts, including synonyms like rube or hick, plus the exact meaning.
Yokel meaning
A person from or living in the countryside, viewed as being unsophisticated or naive.
Using Yokel
- The main meaning on this page is: A person from or living in the countryside, viewed as being unsophisticated or naive.
- Useful related words include: rube, hick, yahoo, hayseed.
Context around Yokel
- Average sentence length in these examples: 33.3 words
- Position in the sentence: 2 start, 1 middle, 1 end
- Sentence types: 3 statements, 1 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Yokel
- In this selection, "yokel" usually appears near the start of the sentence. The average example has 33.3 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, skulls and refusing stand out and add context to how "yokel" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include as a yokel refusing a and hammering into yokel skulls. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "yokel" sits close to words such as aaaaand, aaah and aaargh, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with yokel
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
He chastised the "degraded nonsense which country preachers are ramming and hammering into yokel skulls". (15 words)
One commercial in this series had Enfield as a yokel refusing a Dime bar—smooth on the outside, crunchy on the inside—because he preferred armadillos —smooth on the inside, crunchy on the outside. (34 words)
A cast member would play some yokel who would have some kind of bad talent, which would almost always end up with the audience booing it; throwing vegetables and the hook operator yanking said act forcibly off the stage. (39 words)
Call me a yokel from the backwoods who likes to read old newspapers, but don’t marketers have more of a fighting chance if they break both twittering thumbs, take about five deep breaths and embrace the broader context before issuing buy or sell orders? (45 words)
A cast member would play some yokel who would have some kind of bad talent, which would almost always end up with the audience booing it; throwing vegetables and the hook operator yanking said act forcibly off the stage. (39 words)
One commercial in this series had Enfield as a yokel refusing a Dime bar—smooth on the outside, crunchy on the inside—because he preferred armadillos —smooth on the inside, crunchy on the outside. (34 words)
Call me a yokel from the backwoods who likes to read old newspapers, but don’t marketers have more of a fighting chance if they break both twittering thumbs, take about five deep breaths and embrace the broader context before issuing buy or sell orders? (45 words)
Example sentences (4)
Call me a yokel from the backwoods who likes to read old newspapers, but don’t marketers have more of a fighting chance if they break both twittering thumbs, take about five deep breaths and embrace the broader context before issuing buy or sell orders?
A cast member would play some yokel who would have some kind of bad talent, which would almost always end up with the audience booing it; throwing vegetables and the hook operator yanking said act forcibly off the stage.
He chastised the "degraded nonsense which country preachers are ramming and hammering into yokel skulls".
One commercial in this series had Enfield as a yokel refusing a Dime bar—smooth on the outside, crunchy on the inside—because he preferred armadillos —smooth on the inside, crunchy on the outside.