The boys wus drunk enough to listen to his lousy talk.
And that wus all I did have in the way of weepins, 'cept fur a great big bowie knife that a blacksmith out at Massac made fur me out of a rasp-file.
Did you fellers know there wus thirteen at the table?
I wus mighty proud of that there bowie of mine till we got down yonder to Camp Boone and found a whole company, all with bigger knives than whut mine wus.
Let's see, now, whut wus that Calloway County feller's name?
One Foaf we all tuck--lem me see, how many cheese-cakes an' tauts wus it?
I's 'scended from a Rev'lution cullud genulmon what wus presunt at de fuss Foaf July dar ever wus.
I could prove it by yer maw, but her wus sich a little gal when it happened, her's fawgot.
But ef I wus yer, I'd jis go ter Mandy an' tell her how it happen.
When some one died we didn't know what wus don' with 'em but sometime they wus took out in the night and I heard some wus hauled off in a little push-thing and throwed in the river and some wus put in a hole with their clothes on.
Then after the war wus over, and we wus free, it wusn't hard to find work.
I wus allus honest and religious, 'longed to the Southern Babtist Church.
I wus allays so glad to hear dat bell ring else a horn blow.
Some took their slaves down in the cane brakes and hid them; others wus kept working.
When I got any size to notice I wus dum-confounded to hear my mammy talk up to the white boys comin' to court 'Missie Pinter's' girls.
After we wus free there wus plenty of work, they couldn't whip nobody and had to pay us for the work.
It never gave my soul a boost When grief an' it was matin', Tew figger out that that thar Pope Wus reely twins with Satan.
We sot around on kegs and planks, And on the fence we loung'd precarious; The Elder felt to speak a word, And sed his thoughts wus very various.
His manners wusn't in the grain, His wool wus sorter shoddy; His courage wus a poorish sort, It hadn't got no body.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "wus" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
