Example Sentences
Recent Examples of Synonyms for Podunk
Noun
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Stay Here: The Thinking Traveller’s ‘Citrus’ villa is located in a waterfront hamlet on Plakes beach, about three kilometers west of the port town.—
Nicole Kliest,
Vogue,
28 Jan. 2025 -
The telltale signs of a community built with money earned abroad are unmistakable in this mountain hamlet.—
Whitney Eulich,
The Christian Science Monitor,
27 Jan. 2025
Noun
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Without it, the village’s own vulnerability study shows that floodwaters could quickly claim even more of the island every year.—
Alex Harris,
Miami Herald,
31 Jan. 2025
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It’s set in a Norwegian village under German occupation during the Second World War.—
The New Yorker,
The New Yorker,
31 Jan. 2025
Noun
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If Great Bend failed to achieve the notoriety of Dodge City or other cow towns, Moses’s fellow citizens gave him much of the credit.—
Katy Roberts,
Washington Post,
29 July 2024
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And while Livingston is far from a cow town — more like a fancy-fly-rod-and-real-estate town — Campione still stands out.—
Melissa Clark,
New York Times,
18 Sep. 2023
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“Podunk.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/Podunk. Accessed 10 Feb. 2025.
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