Sentence examples for Podunk from inspiring English sources
proper noun
Mythical small town of no importance.
I originally had PODUNK for PEORIA, but realized that Podunk is in New York State, so that doesn't count.
What's a pretty good hand doin tryin loose horses in the middle of the night at some Podunk sale yard?
" 'I live in some Podunk town, the nearest bookstore is a hundred miles from my house, and now I can get the most obscure book.' " Marcus asked Toni Morrison to do an interview.
"We're not like a little Podunk town," said Leslie Hanson, the manager of Aubergine, as she stood behind the store counter, surrounded by a dizzying 8,000 square feet of vintage clothing that included rows of traditional Austrian dirndl dresses, faux fur coats, '50s-era slips imported from Western Europe and motorcycle boots and Western shirts from Texas.
"It could have happened in Podunk as well as Dallas," the mayor, Earle Cabell, said the day after the assassination.
She was pretty much relegated to whistle-stop engagements in Podunk towns".
READING A book I really enjoyed was recommended to me by the manager of a liquor store in this podunk little town in Kentucky.
Conrad is a Podunk place, not much more than a gas station and a few agricultural businesses.
The stream is 8.2 inches deep... General summation: Podunk River exists, but barely.
By Rex Lardner and Brendan Gill The New Yorker, October 16, 1948 P. 23 Stanley exploration of Podunk River.
