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
  • 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
  • But there’s just something about him — floating in a pool, joint in his mouth, mysterious new fisherman lurking nearby — that people tend to like.
    Alison Foreman, IndieWire, 18 July 2025
  • An angler caught a fish of a lifetime in Missouri, then released it so other fishermen can get the same opportunity.
    Mike Stunson, Kansas City Star, 24 July 2025

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