How to Use rancher in a Sentence

rancher

noun

• Most of the fires are set by ranchers to clear land for pasture.
  — Washington Post, 20 Nov. 2019
• No charges were filed, and the rancher was let off with a warning.
  — oregonlive, 22 Apr. 2021
• Juan Mendoza, a rancher who was shot in the back by Col.
  — Carolina Gusman, Pacific San Diego Magazine, 12 Oct. 2017
• David, 68, a rancher from Austin, Texas David is a sweet soul who’s ready to find love!
  — Jackie Strause, The Hollywood Reporter, 13 Aug. 2024
• There are a lot of ranchers who are in our State House and Senate, too.
  — William Earl, Variety, 17 Sep. 2023
• Some of the wall got built (on the U.S.’ dime) and against Texas farmers’ and ranchers’ wishes.
  — arkansasonline.com, 29 June 2024
• The Pyrenees is truly the farmer and rancher's best friend.
  — Gordon G. Chang, Newsweek, 25 Jan. 2025
• There are so many things right now that are up in the air for farmers and ranchers.
  — Caitlin Dewey, chicagotribune.com, 29 June 2018
• Now, the rancher is opening up about his hero dog's good deed.
  — Colson Thayer, People.com, 21 Apr. 2025
• Stepping through the front door of a 1970s rancher can often feel like a time warp.
  — Zoe Gowen, Southern Living, 6 Oct. 2024
• The son of ranchers lived a few blocks away from her in Jalostotitlán, Jalisco.
  — Esmeralda Bermudez, latimes.com, 13 May 2018
• It had been found, he had been told, by a local rancher named Mac Brazel.
  — WIRED, 14 Nov. 2023
• Teri is a small but sure Iowan, a rancher’s wife, legally blind from a botched eye surgery.
  — Adam Nemett, Rolling Stone, 14 May 2021
• The last pair were discovered in 1874, saved by a rancher in the San Joaquin Valley.
  — Tom Stienstra, SFChronicle.com, 8 July 2018
• Most of the land ranchers run cattle on in the West is federal land.
  — Josh Haner, National Geographic, 29 June 2018
• Dolores is no longer the rancher's daughter, but a cold-eyed avenger.
  — Kristi Turnquist, OregonLive.com, 20 Apr. 2018
• At lunchtime, Mark Moore, 67, a rancher and logger, popped in to say hello.
  — Los Angeles Times, 25 Sep. 2022
• That group includes some farmers and ranchers near the border of the landscape where the bears will make a new home.
  — Evan Bush, NBC News, 28 Apr. 2024
• Call Fred Richards, a Eustis rancher with more than 40 years of fence-building to his name.
  — Lauren Ritchie, OrlandoSentinel.com, 26 Mar. 2018
• The rancher claimed to have given the former robber a ride in his wagon.
  — Alison Osius, Outside Online, 1 Nov. 2024
• The roundups began as a way for ranchers to protect their cattle.
  — John Paul Brammer, The New Yorker, 27 Apr. 2024
• Somewhere below me, as the morning sun filtered through the grove, the rancher yelled at his cows.
  — Peter Kujawinski, New York Times, 13 Oct. 2017
• Ranchers abandoned the land around the test site in 1942, when the US government took over the area for use as a training range for bomber crews.
  — Gabe Ramirez, CNN, 16 July 2017
• The records show that both properties are owned by a single rancher.
  — Washington Post, 29 Apr. 2022
• Cara soon arrives to drop some wisdom on the bride-to-be, schooling her on the ups and downs of being married to a rancher.
  — Matt Cabral, EW.com, 19 Dec. 2022
• Fire crews and ranchers can try to protect the area ahead of the fire, only to see the wind shift and blow the fire in another direction.
  — Karen Hickman, The Conversation, 1 Mar. 2024
• Olivares says his members want the lands given to ranchers for 99 years.
  — Jonathan Franklin, San Francisco Chronicle, 29 Jan. 2018
• On initial approach up a long driveway, the house appears to be a simple rancher in the woods.
  — Diane Fiske, Philly.com, 16 May 2018
• Longer term, Peel expects beef prices to stay high for the next several years as ranchers work on rebuilding their herds.
  — Alain Sherter, CBS News, 8 July 2025
• Drought exacerbated by climate change in recent years has led many cattle ranchers to thin the size of their herds, nowhere more so than in Colorado.
  — Miguel Otárola, Denver Post, 2 July 2025