YOKEL in a Sentence

Learn YOKEL from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.
Example sentences for YOKEL, such as:
1. His mouth was agape in yokel fashion.
2. This starts with a couple of local yokel cops, noticing something odd.
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Animal Farm by George Orwell
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 Meanings and Examples of YOKEL
yokel
 n.  a person who is not very intelligent or interested in culture
Classic Sentence:
1  His mouth was agape in yokel fashion.
The Red Badge of Courage By Stephen Crane
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 8
2  For from the Chautauqua itself she got nothing but wind and chaff and heavy laughter, the laughter of yokels at old jokes, a mirthless and primitive sound like the cries of beasts on a farm.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIX
Example Sentence:
1  This starts with a couple of local yokel cops, noticing something odd.