How to Use moonshiner in a Sentence

moonshiner

noun
Definition of moonshinernext
  • Quinn is not some moonshiner trying to make a quick buck on the alt-fuel craze.
    — Wired Staff, WIRED, 8 May 2008
  • When both jail cells are full with moonshiners, the only place for Otis to be confined was at Andy’s house.
    — Southern Living, 1 May 2017
  • It was unveiled in March at a party where a gourmet moonshiner, an early client, served thimble-size drinks.
    — Sheryl Gay Stolberg, New York Times, 17 Aug. 2016
  • As a young man, Johnson built a reputation as a moonshiner who could outrun the law on the mountain roads like no one else.
    — Anchorage Daily News, 21 Dec. 2019
  • The marshal had been transporting prisoners through Knott County, Kentucky, when he was ambushed by a posse that was looking to free the moonshiners, Turk said.
    — Washington Post, 28 July 2019
  • Her moral struggle, as well as the mysterious origins of the moonshiners, provide much of the drama for this film, which combines elements of mystery in its genre thrills.
    — cleveland.com, 13 Dec. 2017
  • After a 14-year-old girl’s older brother seemingly dies in an apparent drowning, a group of moonshiners offer to bring him back, but only if the girl kills someone else.
    — cleveland.com, 13 Dec. 2017
  • The rural, isolated Appalachian Mountains is where the contemporary view of moonshiners took shape.
    — Alan Ashe, CNN, 7 June 2018
  • Boise police worked with federal, state and county officers in tracking down and arresting moonshiners and runners.
    — Arthur Hart, idahostatesman, 24 June 2017
  • One of her granddaddies was a Pentecostal preacher, the other a moonshiner, and neither seemed incompatible with Klan teachings.
    — Washington Post, 5 June 2018
  • The roles available in RDO include bounty hunter, naturalist, trader, collector, and moonshiner.
    — Paige Lyman, Wired, 7 Sep. 2021
  • During Prohibition, moonshiners lit its clear-burning wood to avoid detection from revenuers.
    — Robert Langellier, National Geographic, 24 June 2019
  • Rather than figuring out elaborate ways of sneaking alcohol past federal dragnets, the moonshiners took a direct approach.
    — Twin Cities, 13 May 2017
  • Like old-time revenue officers heading into the backwoods to arrest moonshiners, Angel and his colleagues faced angry miners used to operating with impunity.
    — Washington Post, 13 Feb. 2020
  • This portrait began to appear in post-Civil War publications, eventually becoming the iconic image of a moonshiner.
    — Alan Ashe, CNN, 7 June 2018
  • The president also offered full pardons to a Pittsburgh dentist convicted of false billing, an Oklahoma moonshiner, and a Florida marijuana smuggler.
    — Justin Sink, Bloomberg.com, 23 Dec. 2020
  • 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
  • If Yankee bootleggers stood for organized crime, the hillbilly moonshiner is the picture of down-home entrepreneurial individualism.
    — Los Angeles Times, 13 Sep. 2019

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