Guthrie, Woody

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A twentieth-century American songwriter and folksinger (see folk music). Guthrie flourished in the 1930s, writing numerous songs about social injustice and the hardships of the Great Depression years. Two of his best-remembered songs are “This Land Is Your Land” and “So Long, It's Been Good to Know Yuh.”

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How to use Guthrie, Woody in a sentence

So with Woody, his first 3-5 films will be your favorites, or your first 3-5 Sam Shepard plays will be your favorites.
Coffee Talk with Ethan Hawke: On ‘Boyhood,’ Jennifer Lawrence, and Bill Clinton’s Urinal Exchange|Marlow Stern|December 27, 2014|DAILY BEAST
I would have never predicted when I saw Cheers that Woody Harrelson was going to be one of the great actors of this generation.
Coffee Talk with Ethan Hawke: On ‘Boyhood,’ Jennifer Lawrence, and Bill Clinton’s Urinal Exchange|Marlow Stern|December 27, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Wally said, “One day, Woody Allen will pass, and people will wonder if he really lived.”
Coffee Talk with Ethan Hawke: On ‘Boyhood,’ Jennifer Lawrence, and Bill Clinton’s Urinal Exchange|Marlow Stern|December 27, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Woody Allen once remarked that 80 or 90 % of life was just showing up.
Why We Should Delay The Israel-Palestinian Peace Process|Aaron David Miller|December 19, 2014|DAILY BEAST

But Willie Watson is a throwback to the days of Woody Guthrie and early Bob Dylan.
The Best Albums of 2014|Ted Gioia|December 13, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Grant's Island is higher than the others, which are merely small woody islets, the centre is in 11 degrees 10 minutes.
Narrative of a Survey of the Intertropical and Western Coasts of Australia] [Volume 2 of 2]|Phillip Parker King
The fruit consists of radiating, somewhat woody fibres, terminating in a tuberculated and slightly papillose surface.
Early Western Travels 1748-1846, Volume XVI|Various
I wished to visit Guthrie, the capital of Oklahoma, and they did not care to do so.
Frank Merriwell's Bravery|Burt L. Standish
The woody hollow of Cowan's Bridge was foggy, unwholesome, damp.
Emily Bront|A. Mary F. (Agnes Mary Frances) Robinson
They then put forth new leaves and flowers, and after sixteen or eighteen months they become slightly woody.
Travels in Peru, on the Coast, in the Sierra, Across the Cordilleras and the Andes, into the Primeval Forests|J. J. von Tschudi