How to Use cattleman in a Sentence

cattleman

noun
  • This is exactly the kind of taco that Texas cattlemen ate.
    Brad A. Johnson, Orange County Register, 17 Feb. 2017
  • DiCaprio plays her husband, who just happens to be the nephew of a wealthy cattleman (De Niro).
    Los Angeles Times, 1 Jan. 2023
  • Black Angus cattle were raised on the Reese farm, but William had no desire to be a cattleman.
    Andy Newman, BostonGlobe.com, 22 June 2018
  • White gets his man, a local cattleman and a figure of genuine evil.
    Dwight Garner, New York Times, 12 Apr. 2017
  • Northern cattlemen watched their herds swiftly succumb to the curse — which didn’t affect the Longhorns that carried it.
    John MacCormack, ExpressNews.com, 2 Aug. 2019
  • Black Vultures are a costly threat to cattlemen who are left with few tools to defend their livestock.
    Sarah Ladd, The Courier-Journal, 25 June 2019
  • Image Black Angus cattle were raised on the Reese farm, but William had no desire to be a cattleman himself.
    Andy Newman, New York Times, 15 June 2018
  • An English aristocrat and a cattleman drive a herd across the Australian Outback to save her ranch from a hostile takeover.
    Los Angeles Times, 13 Sep. 2019
  • The 19th-century miners here also needed to eat, and so cattlemen and their herds made their way to the Paradise Valley.
    Jim Robbins, WSJ, 19 July 2017
  • It is said area cattlemen, who wanted the sheep and the herders gone, named the spring Borrego, which colloquially can also mean fool.
    San Diego Union-Tribune, 2 Oct. 2023
  • De Niro said the injury likely won't affect his performance as cattleman William Hale in the crime drama film.
    Bryan Alexander, USA TODAY, 17 May 2021
  • Lee, Dutton tells him, sees his cattle the way a cowboy does (as lives to protect), not as a cattleman does (as investments to preserve).
    James Poniewozik, New York Times, 19 June 2018
  • Their start was at Bakers Crossing, a site on Texas 163 named for a pioneering cattleman.
    John MacCormack, ExpressNews.com, 19 June 2020
  • The country singer who made his living as a rodeo cowboy and cattleman would be shocked to learn that at least half of one of the hottest duos in what's billed as country music is - get this - a vegan.
    Chuck Yarborough, cleveland.com, 14 Aug. 2017
  • To drive huge herds of cattle to the markets, the Florida cattlemen used whips (an ancient tradition acquired from the vaqueros of Spain).
    Vincent Crampton, OrlandoSentinel.com, 6 May 2018
  • Other cattlemen came to the Big Bend with blooded cattle and money, and began buying up the rangeland that Faver had long used without expense.
    John MacCormack, San Antonio Express-News, 2 Feb. 2018
  • Lawrence Silas, a prosperous Black cattleman from the area who built a large family fortune, is mentioned among other names on the cornerstone of the building.
    Cassie Armstrong, orlandosentinel.com, 19 Feb. 2021
  • My grandfather was a traditional llanero, both a cattleman and horse tamer.
    Nathalia Angarita, The Christian Science Monitor, 21 Mar. 2022
  • About two years ago, Grain Valley cattleman Ward began building this modern-day feedlot that puts all cattle under a roof, in open-air stalls.
    Rick Montgomery, kansascity, 27 May 2018
  • The states, in most cases backed by cattlemen’s associations, claim consumer confusion as the driving force for the laws.
    Laura Reiley, Washington Post, 25 Aug. 2019
  • Small farmers and cattlemen are glad some politicians are listening.
    BostonGlobe.com, 6 Nov. 2019
  • Still, some cattlemen and women are worried Trump’s isolationist trade policies will hinder the growth of their business.
    Max Siegelbaum, The Denver Post, 22 Jan. 2017
  • Outside of their home lives, Thompson is a full-time rancher and carpenter, Harris is a rodeo champion and cattle dealer, and Brown is a cattleman and horse trainer.
    Jared Boyd, AL.com, 10 Aug. 2017
  • The 1910 Saddle and Sirloin Club building was built originally as a cattlemen’s private club.
    Bud Kennedy, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 31 Jan. 2024
  • Closing off the town plaza, men performed daredevil tricks with bulls provided by local wealthy cattlemen.
    Toby Muse, Rolling Stone, 3 Mar. 2024
  • In recent years, the land-management agencies have set about satisfying the insatiable demands of the cattlemen for more grazing land.
    Rachel Carson, The New Yorker, 1 Jan. 1950
  • Criminal gangs easily regrouped across the border in Mexico, and cattlemen clashed with homesteaders across the High Plains.
    Ann Toews, WSJ, 11 Dec. 2018
  • One posed as an insurance salesman, another as a cattleman.
    Katie Rife, EW.com, 17 July 2023
  • Putnam said he was encouraged by the prospects of a trade war, accusing China and Mexico of hurting Florida farmers and cattlemen.
    Adam Smith and Steve Contorno, miamiherald, 28 June 2018
  • Convincing cattlemen not to shoot or flood or poison a prairie dog colony is part of the long conservation battle and fundamental mission of the American Prairie Reserve.
    Andrew Evans, chicagotribune.com, 5 July 2018

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