How to Use fisherwoman in a Sentence

fisherwoman

noun
  • Good thing, too, because his movie is about a fisherwoman who crafts a husband out of wicker.
    — Brian Welk, IndieWire, 20 Jan. 2026
  • The fisherwomen source indigenous fish that are in season and that are mature in size.
    — Rebecca Misner, Condé Nast Traveler, 1 Sep. 2021
  • An orphan and an outcast, Colman’s fisherwoman wasn’t raised to fit in.
    — Amy Nicholson, Los Angeles Times, 22 Oct. 2026
  • Olivia Colman is a smelly medieval fisherwoman who marries—checks notes—a basket?
    — Emily Temple, Literary Hub, 14 Sep. 2026
  • The only full frontal is when the fisherwoman (Colman) is looking at the nude wicker man off in the distance in the water.
    — Carly Thomas, HollywoodReporter, 23 Oct. 2026
  • The film follows a lonely fisherwoman who asks a master basket weaver to build her a husband out of wood, only to become the envy of the village that once shunned her.
    — Christian Zilko, IndieWire, 25 Jan. 2026
  • The plot requires the tailor’s wife to introduce doubts in the fisherwoman’s mind about her affectionate man’s fidelity.
    — Peter Debruge, Variety, 26 Jan. 2026
  • Whitman is reportedly an avid fly fisherwoman.
    — David Caraccio, Sacbee.com, 3 Apr. 2026
  • Colman plays as a fisherwoman, her village’s outcast, who asks a basketmaker to weave her a husband (Skarsgård).
    — Mia Galuppo, HollywoodReporter, 20 Jan. 2026
  • Kokomo then buys from these fisherwomen, and the head chef, a Fijian woman named Caroline Oakley, cooks the fish.
    — Rebecca Misner, Condé Nast Traveler, 1 Sep. 2021
  • In it, a former summer resident returns to a coastal hamlet, now sinking under the sea, sparks memories and desires in a fisherwoman and her young grand-daughter.
    — John Hopewell, Variety, 10 Apr. 2026
  • Scardovari, Italy — As the sun was rising, two fisherwomen dragged their boat through the Scardovari lagoon in northeastern Italy.
    — Kasha Patel, CNN Money, 18 July 2026
  • Once the wicker creation proves far more extraordinary, discord and jealousy upset the fisherwoman’s quiet village.
    — Julia Teti, Footwear News, 21 Oct. 2026
  • The film centers on a widowed fisherwoman, travelling alone through snowbound northern Minnesota, who interrupts the kidnapping of a teenage girl.
    — Leo Barraclough, Variety, 6 Aug. 2025
  • After the screening, Colman celebrated the fisherwoman by cozying up with her cast at The Mulberry.
    — Kenneal Patterson, Vanity Fair, 14 Oct. 2026
  • In this darkly comic folk tale, Olivia Colman also stars as a spinster fisherwoman fighting for her relationship with Skarsgård who stars as a literal tree.
    — Kate Erbland, IndieWire, 21 Jan. 2026
  • The film stars Olivia Colman as a fisherwoman who tasks a basket weaver (Peter Dinklage) with making her a wicker husband (Skarsgård).
    — Hannah Malach, InStyle, 30 July 2026
  • Wicker stars the Academy Award–winning Olivia Colman as a fisherwoman who asks the village weaver (Peter Dinklage) to weave her a husband.
    — Bethy Squires, Vulture, 7 Oct. 2026
  • In each port, travelers can expect excursions that are both heart-pounding and dip into the local culture, like a helicopter flight over the towering Mahoney Falls or a local seafood tasting led by an Alaskan fisherwoman.
    — Jessica Puckett, Condé Nast Traveler, 11 Feb. 2026
  • Writer-directors Alex Huston Fischer and Eleanor Wilson wanted the fisherwoman’s husband to be created practically, rather than with special effects.
    — Jazz Tangcay, Variety, 6 Nov. 2026
  • His creator, an unnamed basket-weaver (Peter Dinklage), braided him as a mate for a lonely virgin, a fisherwoman (Olivia Colman) who stomps around her rustic village smelling like sushi and tossing her head back in an Eliza Doolittle guffaw.
    — Amy Nicholson, Los Angeles Times, 22 Oct. 2026
  • Thanks to Alex Huston Fischer and Eleanor Wilson’s funny, poignant — and sexy — folk tale, starring Olivia Colman as a village fisherwoman who commissions a fantastical husband, audiences won’t want to forget it.
    — Jack Smart, PEOPLE, 1 Sep. 2026
  • On Tuesday, June 16, fisherwoman Bae Cadotte was dragged into the surf for seven minutes before bystanders helped pull her to safety, according to KTVU FOX 2.
    — Gabrielle Rockson, PEOPLE, 18 June 2026
  • Colman’s upcoming Wicker film, in which her fisherwoman character asks Peter Dinklage’s basketmaker to weave her a husband, garnered buzz after the trailer — teasing Alexander Skarsgård’s straw transformation — was released at the end of July.
    — Dessi Gomez, Deadline, 18 Aug. 2026
  • Alex Huston Fischer and Eleanor Wilson’s offbeat love story between a fisherwoman (Olivia Colman) and a man made of wicker (Alexander Skarsgård) has been a hot topic among cinephiles since its audience-pleasing debut at Sundance earlier this year.
    — Jim Hemphill, IndieWire, 29 Oct. 2026
  • Directed by Alex Huston Fischer and Eleanor Wilson, the movie stars Academy Award-winner Olivia Colman as a fisherwoman who tasks a basket weaver (Peter Dinklage) with making her a wicker husband (Skarsgård).
    — Hannah Malach, InStyle, 30 July 2026
  • Where Wilson and Fischer really deepen Wills-Jones’ tale is in the private moments between the fisherwoman and her wicker husband, who awaits her at the altar in a handsome new suit and shoes borrowed from her neighbors — the tailor (Nabhaan Rizwan), shoemaker (Scott Alexander Yougng) and so on.
    — Peter Debruge, Variety, 26 Jan. 2026
  • Based on the short story The Wicker Husband by Ursula Wills-Jones, the film follows a small village fisherwoman (Olivia Colman) who convinces a local basket weaver (Peter Dinklage) to build her a husband out of wicker (Alexander Skarsgård).
    — Ct Jones, Rolling Stone, 4 Nov. 2026
  • Black Bear’s Wicker, based on author Ursula Wills-Jones’s short story, The Wicker Husband, follows a fisherwoman (Olivia Colman) who commissions the local basketmaker (Peter Dinklage) to weave her a husband (Skarsgård).
    — Carly Thomas, HollywoodReporter, 5 Aug. 2026

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