Sentence examples for in a holler from inspiring English sources

I was born in Hazard, Ky., and raised primarily in a holler called Johnson's Fork, in Letcher County, where only mountain people had lived for generations.

Until he was twelve, his family lived in a holler where white kids played with black kids because they were so isolated they barely knew the difference.

Meet Shain, a sanitation worker who lives in a "holler," where "half my neighbors are my cousins," he explains in the exclusive clip above.

Then you take the unprofitable part of the mountain, what the coal companies call the "overburden," and you dump it in a holler or you dump it where a stream used to run.

I might not dress like one, but you can tell by my accent anywhere I go, people say, "You're from West Virginia, aren't you?" I grew up in a holler.

Mr. Martin found himself trapped in a hollering swarm of Yankee fans.

In Kentucky, a holler or hollow is an address -- a nook or cranny in a mountain where a family builds a home.

There isn't a holler in the state out of reach of a school bus today.

Singing in a penetrating holler, he combined mordant wit and carnal humor.

When Stew riffs on electric guitar and declaims his lyrics in a gruff holler, you hear echoes of Jimi Hendrix.

For the cash-strapped Ratliff, an artisan who lives in a peaceful holler on the edge of the proposed mountaintop removal operation, the coal company's offer to strip mine his land forces him into a hard decision.