How to Use hoedown in a Sentence

hoedown

noun
  • For those of us who can’t keep up with the line dance at the hoedown, Ms. Carter said, Here’s some hip-hop beats for y’all to shake ass on the dance floor.
    — Zoe Guy, Vulture, 4 Apr. 2024
  • There are, of course, plenty of genre pastiches in it: soft-shoe, jazz, ragtime, hoedowns.
    — Jesse Green, New York Times, 11 May 2017
  • Still, the easiest and best way to catch Hallmark’s latest holly hoedown is in the moment.
    — Angela Watercutter, WIRED, 24 Nov. 2023
  • The hoedown held this past Friday brought out some 300 supporters, many of whom sported cowboy hats and boots.
    — Glendale News-Press, 30 Sep. 2019
  • A hoedown in Abita was yet another unique and enjoyable event on the camp schedule this year.
    — Jan Lugenbuhl, NOLA.com, 9 July 2017
  • The time was 1951, and the place was Ottawa, where the woman was attending a hoedown at the home of Canada’s governor general.
    — Margalit Fox, New York Times, 4 Mar. 2024
  • By the sound of this grinning tune, the impending apocalypse would seem to warrant a hoedown, not a nuclear bunker.
    — Morgan Enos, Billboard, 28 Mar. 2018
  • Other acts for the Aug. 5-7 country-and-camping hoedown will be announced later.
    — Jon Bream and Star Tribune, Star Tribune, 11 Jan. 2021
  • Events are planned throughout the week for guests, including hoedowns with live music, guided stargazing, and hayrides.
    — Cynthia J Drake, Southern Living, 25 July 2024
  • Friends made the party their own personal hoedown Saturday at the Irving, Texas, hookah lounge.
    — Char Adams, NBC News, 1 Apr. 2024
  • Rock-star dad is brave whether in his high-water Levis, cowboy boots and a straw hat, dancing the hoedown with 20 first-graders, or attempting a hair bun for his little girl’s dance recital.
    — Jaclyn Stapp, PEOPLE.com, 18 June 2018
  • By my unofficial count, there were at least 16 rodents having a hoedown inside the shop.
    — Tim Carman, Washington Post, 4 Oct. 2019
  • On leave with her squadron in Wyoming — the pretext for some whispers of swaying cowboy hoedown music — Jess falls in love with a rancher, Eric, and gets pregnant.
    — Zachary Woolfe, New York Times, 29 Oct. 2023
  • Above the hoedown, Lincoln and a bouncing bee watch impassively.
    — Paul Hodgins, Orange County Register, 17 Mar. 2017
  • Some cartons look like advertisements for down-on-the-farm hoedowns, a fantasy of cheery chickens and farm folk in a quilting bee or at a barn-raising.
    — Adrienne Rose Johnson, Bon Appetit, 19 Jan. 2018
  • Some cartons look like advertisements for down-on-the-farm hoedowns, a fantasy of cheery chickens and farm folk in a quilting bee or at a barn-raising.
    — Adrienne Rose Johnson, Bon Appetit, 27 Mar. 2017
  • Some cartons look like advertisements for down-on-the-farm hoedowns, a fantasy of cheery chickens and farm folk in a quilting bee or at a barn-raising.
    — Adrienne Rose Johnson, Bon Appetit, 19 Jan. 2018
  • The novel hoedown was a preliminary to the fifth national square dance convention which opens in San Diego today.
    — Merrie Monteagudo, San Diego Union-Tribune, 22 June 2021
  • And a deliriously happy Tyler, the Creator joined them onstage for an impromptu hoedown.
    — Seth Abramovitch, The Hollywood Reporter, 13 Nov. 2023
  • Other autumn happenings: jug band music, a hoedown and ghost stories.
    — Roxana Popescu, San Diego Union-Tribune, 24 Aug. 2023
  • The free, toe-tapping, foot-stomping hoedown, from 1 to 3 p.m., features live music, garden tours, wagon rides and complimentary ice cream.
    — Korky Vann, courant.com, 11 July 2017
  • Partly recorded in Nashville, Golden is dusted with fingerpicked guitars and double-time hoedown refrains and liberal use of the word whoop.
    — Spencer Kornhaber, The Atlantic, 6 Apr. 2018
  • But harmonic subversions slip in, and a quasi-hoedown evolves into jazzy syncopations.
    — Scott Cantrell, Dallas News, 18 Feb. 2020
  • Fifteen minutes away, in Milford, FC Cincinnati held its third practice/workout/get-together/hoedown.
    — Paul Daugherty, Cincinnati.com, 13 May 2020
  • Perhaps you’ll be asked to act in a moving-picture show, participate in a mustache contest, take a drawing class, help a gang rob a bank or inspire a bashful Calico resident to ask a lady to the afternoon hoedown.
    — Todd Martens, Los Angeles Times, 12 Aug. 2024
  • Also haunted maze and fall hoedowns Friday-Saturday only.
    — oregonlive, 1 Oct. 2019
  • Guests would then float through the world of Hanna-Barbera characters including a colorful cave, a wedding in the land of Little People, a hillbilly-esque hoedown, an elaborate water world, a spooky haunted house and a circus finale.
    — Briana Rice, Cincinnati.com, 21 Aug. 2019
  • The second party was a full-on hoedown, for Kylie Jenner's former personal assistant, Victoria Villarroel.
    — Kelsey Stiegman, Seventeen, 9 Mar. 2020
  • Anderson finds a stylistic sweet spot in this piece, which simultaneously hints at hoedowns, Vivaldi concertos, Bach toccatas and bebop.
    — New York Times, 22 Apr. 2020
  • Shot mostly in the Arizona desert, the film marvels over the animals that live in such an austere climate while also focusing on familiar scenarios, like two male tortoises tussling over a female or scorpions doing a mating dance to hoedown music.
    — Scott Tobias, New York Times, 1 Apr. 2020

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