How to Use fisherman in a Sentence

fisherman

noun

• The fish was worth from eight to twelve cents a pound that year to a fisherman and twice that in the market.
  — Ernest Hemingway, The New Yorker, 1 June 2020
• Once, in grade school, Frank and I came across a small shark caught by a fisherman with a rod and reel.
  — Smithsonian Magazine, 10 July 2023
• This gives fishermen a jump start on the spawn and the chance to land a giant largemouth.
  — Shaye Baker, Field & Stream, 13 Mar. 2024
• After about a month, the fishermen noticed that the buoy was gone.
  — Elizabeth Kolbert, The New Yorker, 4 Sep. 2023
• There are a lot of baits and lures out there that are made to catch fishermen rather than fish.
  — Derek Horner, Outdoor Life, 9 May 2024
• The basket, with the fisherman in it, was then raised back up to the helicopter, the video showed.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 28 Mar. 2021
• Koutrakis is the child of a fisherman who worked those waters for 60 years.
  — Paul Greenberg, Smithsonian Magazine, 21 Dec. 2022
• Andrés said of the dish, which fishermen would prepare on the boat.
  — Aaron Hutcherson, Washington Post, 2 Nov. 2023
• The other fisherman was law clerk Daniel Strunk of the Vati tribe and, well, that didn’t work out so well.
  — al, 6 Apr. 2022
• The next year, a fisherman saw two men throw a large bundle, believed to be a dead body, over the side of the bridge.
  — Natalie Wallington, Kansas City Star, 27 June 2024
• The report put the blame on the failure of a clip of the kind that fishermen use to connect hooks and lures on their lines.
  — Mike Hendricks, Kansas City Star, 3 Jan. 2025
• For all his life, Alaskan fisherman Dune Lankard has looked to the sea—for food, work and purpose.
  — Shelby Vittek, Smithsonian Magazine, 1 July 2021
• By sunset, kids splash in the shallows while fishermen haul in their last catch of the day.
  — Natalie Stoclet, Forbes, 18 Jan. 2025
• That day was a crucial step in my growth as a fisherman.
  — Mark Hicks, Field & Stream, 15 June 2020
• Roni Hary, one of those daughters, said her dad was an avid fisherman and longed to pass the sport down.
  — Enquirer Staff, Cincinnati.com, 11 June 2020
• Magee used to be a fisherman, and this helped put the mind of the boat’s owner in real life, Lee Carter, at ease.
  — Leo Barraclough, Variety, 29 Aug. 2025
• One day, a mermaid named Aycayia is caught in the net of a fisherman.
  — Jessica Pressman, The Conversation, 20 Dec. 2022
• The 52-year-old fisherman was staying at his son’s house in Houma.
  — NBC News, 8 Sep. 2021
• The 52-year-old fisherman was staying at his son's house in Houma.
  — Arkansas Online, 9 Sep. 2021
• The stairs are crooked, the floorboards creak with every step, and there are plenty of fishermen’s relics on the walls.
  — Sander Van Den Broecke, Travel + Leisure, 26 Mar. 2023
• The fishermen used a piece of carp for bait, cast it out into the river and waited for fish to bite.
  — Ariana Garcia, Chron, 20 Apr. 2023
• Many were steered by fishermen bringing back the day’s catch.
  — Kate Linthicum, Los Angeles Times, 14 Sep. 2023
• If your plane goes down, and the guy next to you is a really great fisherman, that's great.
  — Dalton Ross, EW.com, 10 Mar. 2023
• Your eye is also drawn to the silhouettes of a fisherman and his dog in a boat.
  — Hannah Kirby, Journal Sentinel, 28 Mar. 2023
• King crab fishermen harvest them for just a few weeks in the winter.
  — Coastal Living, Southern Living, 1 Mar. 2024
• Her husband, Tom Kaulitz, was dressed as the fisherman who hooked her.
  — Alyssa Bailey, ELLE, 1 Nov. 2022
• Or stroll it as the sun sets and fishermen cast their lines for corbina and mackerel.
  — Laura Randall, Los Angeles Times, 30 May 2024
• The hand of the fisherman who casts a hook carries the wisdom of his ancestors.
  — Maria Teresa Hernandez, Chicago Tribune, 16 Dec. 2022
• What was once a sleepy island of whalers and fisherman is now the Hamptons of Germany.
  — Garrett Munce, Town & Country, 4 May 2023
• Ben Erb is a lifelong fisherman and Minnesotan who likes catching bass and walleyes just as much as the next guy.
  — Dac Collins, Outdoor Life, 27 Aug. 2025