What's the difference between backwood and rural?

Backwood


Definition:

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Let’s just make that choice and - it feels better.” Facebook Twitter Pinterest Lawrence on The Hunger Games: Catching Fire Lawrence, 24, rose to fame following her breakthrough role in backwoods drama Winter’s Bone (2010), for which she received a best actress Oscar nomination.
  • (2) The 26 bishops will be sending in their men, while rarely seen backwoods Christians and all the other faiths will be there.
  • (3) His early albums, Palace Music and There Is No One What Will Take Care Of You, sound like they were made in a shed in the backwoods somewhere way down South.
  • (4) They all came from the backwoods of the province of Skåne, the country's southern tip – in Sweden, "backwoods" is a literal term.
  • (5) Over 80% of the Black residents of McNary were born in backwoods lumbering towns in the American South.
  • (6) I wouldn't complain about it, the Boston Red Sox's insane backwoods murderer-style beards make me want to bleach my eye.
  • (7) As it has moved out of the Tory backwoods into Labour heartlands, Nigel Farage's party has succeeded in tapping into a deep vein of disenfranchisement and anti-establishment anger.
  • (8) Described as "something they would use in the far northern backwoods" by fan Marcus Rosengren, well-to-do Swedes once considered the use of Snus a bit coarse.
  • (9) Such rhetoric plays well at home, particularly from a man whose career has been built on an image of the straight-talker from the backwoods, and can be useful globally too.
  • (10) Sugarcane fields, citrus groves, backwoods – all gone.
  • (11) Many readers cannot (or will not) distinguish between a book with racist characters and a racist book; the fact that the novel's sympathies are clearly with Huck and Jim, and against all the slave-owners (who are also all the white adults), is outweighed, for these readers, by its casual use of the word "nigger" – even though that was the only word that illiterate backwoods white boys in the 1840s would have used to describe a slave.
  • (12) As the projected route winds through towns, villages and expanses of countryside, you get a sharp sense of a backwoods rebellion: fields smattered with the red-and-black Stop HS2 logos, and the odd slogan – "It's all about the money David, stupid".
  • (13) From the first line, the reader is pitched into the deep south: “Jewel and I come up from the field, following the path in single file… anyone watching us from the cotton-house can see Jewel’s frayed and broken straw hat a full head above my own.” Welcome to a brutal, backwoods community of impoverished cotton farmers in 1920s Mississippi.
  • (14) She's the self-dubbed Backwoods Barbie with a penchant for dropping self-mocking aperçus such as: "If I have one more facelift I'll have a beard!"
  • (15) The hamlet, founded in 1984, has been the focus of “radical-right conspiracy theories and claims, alleging that it is one of a string of secret jihadist training camps in the backwoods of America”, the civil rights organization the Southern Policy Law Center said.

Rural


Definition:

  • (a.) Of or pertaining to the country, as distinguished from a city or town; living in the country; suitable for, or resembling, the country; rustic; as, rural scenes; a rural prospect.
  • (a.) Of or pertaining to agriculture; as, rural economy.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) For some time now, public opinion polls have revealed Americans' strong preference to live in comparatively small cities, towns, and rural areas rather than in large cities.
  • (2) Subtle differences between Chicago urban and Grand Forks rural climates are reflected in arthritic subjects' degree of pain and their perception of pain-related stress.
  • (3) They urged the Department of Environment, Food and Rural Affairs to make air quality a higher priority and release the latest figures on premature deaths.
  • (4) To evaluate the first full year of operation of the rural registrar scheme by comparing the educational activities undertaken by the participating rural general practitioners with those undertaken in the previous year.
  • (5) In one of Pruitt’s first official acts, for example, he overruled the recommendation of his own agency’s scientists, based on years of meticulous research, to ban a pesticide shown to cause nerve damage, one that poses a clear risk to children, farmworkers and rural drinking water supplies.
  • (6) Since then the intensive development of anti-malaria campaigns in urban areas over about ten years led temporarily to a considerable decrease in the level of endemicity, while in rural areas it remained unchanged.
  • (7) Stool weights, defecation frequencies, and transit times in this group are much closer to those of westernized whites than to rural blacks.
  • (8) A nutritional field survey was undertaken in 11 rural districts of Kwazulu.
  • (9) The dietary information on children with diarrhea came from focus groups with mothers in 3 marginal urban communities, 3 rural indigenous communities, and 4 rural Ladino communities.
  • (10) Thus, the dental health and dietary habits of the Greek immigrant and the Swedish children were generally very similar, while the Greek rural children showed a less favourable cariological status.
  • (11) These preliminary results suggest that finger stick blood samples, collected on filter paper, could be used for FTA-ABS testing of remote rural populations--such as in areas where yaws is endemic.
  • (12) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Syrians queue for water at a shelter in Hirjalleh, a rural area near the capital Damascus.
  • (13) Chester’s proposal for Hartsuyker to be the next deputy leader excludes other senior Nationals figures who are in the current Turnbull ministry, including assistant infrastructure minister Michael McCormack and rural health minister Fiona Nash.
  • (14) RPG was prepared as mothers do it in a rural area, according to previous ethnographic work.
  • (15) Trichotomic classification of communities throws some light on the problem of causes of death of the rural and urban population.
  • (16) The first problem facing Calderdale is sheep-rustling Happy Valley – filmed around Hebden Bridge, with its beautiful stone houses straight off the pages of the Guardian’s Lets Move To – may be filled with rolling hills and verdant pastures, but the reality of rural issues are harsh.
  • (17) One chief constable policing a rural area said he would have a copy of the winning candidate's manifesto on his desk when he met the new PCC on their first day of work.
  • (18) The logistics of maintaining and supplying underground clinics located in war-torn rural Afghanistan are presented.
  • (19) A 24-year-old man from rural Mississippi had a case of California encephalitis (CE) that evolved as a subacute encephalomyelitis.
  • (20) Many characteristics of California's counties that correlate with physician-population ratios also correlate with psychiatrist-population ratios, with their changes through time and with rural counties' ability to attract psychiatrists.

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