Examples of moonshiner in a Sentence
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While Formula 1 evolved from international competitions between governments, car manufacturers, and millionaires, NASCAR started out as races between moonshiners and bootleggers who modified cars to outrun cops.
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David Hill, Rolling Stone, 14 Jan. 2024
With its clean rivers and remote locations, the area also became a haven for moonshiners who set up stills in the heavily forested hills.
—Sean Murphy, Anchorage Daily News, 23 Apr. 2023
The story of a cabin set on fire by a hostile tribe on Tom Sawyer Island has also been changed to blame a moonshiner.
—Roger Catlin, Smithsonian Magazine, 13 June 2023
While Loretta was the daughter of a coal miner, my mother was the daughter of a moonshiner.
—Nancy Russell, Variety, 6 Oct. 2022
Her husband, then 21, was a moonshiner who owned the only car in the hollow, an Army Jeep.
—Terence McArdle, Washington Post, 4 Oct. 2022
Hopkins added to his criminal mystique as a moonshiner alongside Burt Reynolds in White Lightning (1973) and as Tex, a mysterious man who seals Billy Hayes’ (Brad Davis) fate, in Midnight Express (1978).
—Chris Koseluk, The Hollywood Reporter, 28 May 2022
The roles available in RDO include bounty hunter, naturalist, trader, collector, and moonshiner.
—Paige Lyman, Wired, 7 Sep. 2021
Daniel, born in Akron with several generations of mechanics in his family (and a possible Tennessee moonshiner), originally wanted to be an architect.
—cleveland, 6 Aug. 2021
David Hill, Rolling Stone, 14 Jan. 2024
With its clean rivers and remote locations, the area also became a haven for moonshiners who set up stills in the heavily forested hills.
—Sean Murphy, Anchorage Daily News, 23 Apr. 2023
The story of a cabin set on fire by a hostile tribe on Tom Sawyer Island has also been changed to blame a moonshiner.
—Roger Catlin, Smithsonian Magazine, 13 June 2023
While Loretta was the daughter of a coal miner, my mother was the daughter of a moonshiner.
—Nancy Russell, Variety, 6 Oct. 2022
Her husband, then 21, was a moonshiner who owned the only car in the hollow, an Army Jeep.
—Terence McArdle, Washington Post, 4 Oct. 2022
Hopkins added to his criminal mystique as a moonshiner alongside Burt Reynolds in White Lightning (1973) and as Tex, a mysterious man who seals Billy Hayes’ (Brad Davis) fate, in Midnight Express (1978).
—Chris Koseluk, The Hollywood Reporter, 28 May 2022
The roles available in RDO include bounty hunter, naturalist, trader, collector, and moonshiner.
—Paige Lyman, Wired, 7 Sep. 2021
Daniel, born in Akron with several generations of mechanics in his family (and a possible Tennessee moonshiner), originally wanted to be an architect.
—cleveland, 6 Aug. 2021
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Word History
First Known Use
1860, in the meaning defined above
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“Moonshiner.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/moonshiner. Accessed 19 Apr. 2024.
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