How to Use rancher in a Sentence

rancher

noun
  • There are a lot of ranchers who are in our State House and Senate, too.
    William Earl, Variety, 17 Sep. 2023
  • It had been found, he had been told, by a local rancher named Mac Brazel.
    WIRED, 14 Nov. 2023
  • At lunchtime, Mark Moore, 67, a rancher and logger, popped in to say hello.
    Los Angeles Times, 25 Sep. 2022
  • 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
  • The Texas Farm Bureau has established a fund to aid farmers and ranchers.
    Elizabeth Wolfe, CNN, 4 Mar. 2024
  • The organizations pay fees and ranchers to open gates that might be closed or land that might be off-limits the rest of the year.
    Michael Van Runkle, Robb Report, 15 Nov. 2023
  • The identity of the rancher remains unavailable to the public.
    Katie Hill, Outdoor Life, 4 Apr. 2024
  • The shape of the rancher is often rectangular, though many can also be built in a U or L shape.
    Rachel Silva, ELLE Decor, 11 July 2022
  • But for rancher and dairy producer Rebecca King, the truest sign of autumn is in the cream.
    Naoki Nitta, San Francisco Chronicle, 10 Oct. 2022
  • Within less than a week, Wells shipped 56 tons of the multi-purpose grain out to ranchers in the Texas Panhandle.
    Bradford Betz, Fox News, 7 Mar. 2024
  • The cattle stir in the lots, the hens bob and scratch in the yards, and ranchers and farmers, pulling on their jackets, finish their second cup of coffee on the way out the door.
    Jeff MacGregor, Smithsonian Magazine, 22 June 2023
  • In 1869, rancher Robert Allison bought thousands of acres in the region.
    San Diego Union-Tribune, 4 Oct. 2023
  • The skyscraper’s namesake was William Thomas Waggoner, a wealthy rancher and oilman born in 1852.
    Wire Services, Dallas News, 12 Apr. 2023
  • Mark Moore, a 67-year-old rancher and logger who attended the school as a boy, dropped by while Branson-Potts was there.
    Karen Kaplan, Los Angeles Times, 27 Sep. 2022
  • There’s something about seeing Beth, who is the daughter of a rancher and the wife of a cowboy, embrace a part of her soul that she’s never had much time for.
    Greg Braxton, Los Angeles Times, 13 Nov. 2022
  • So would a rancher who protects their herd of cattle from wolves or other large predators.
    Matt Ford, The New Republic, 17 Aug. 2022
  • My colleague Louis Sahagún has the story on the endangered wolves — and the ranchers worried for their livestock.
    Sammy Roth, Los Angeles Times, 7 Sep. 2023
  • Shadow a rancher to help care for the property’s livestock.
    Jennifer Kester, Forbes, 23 Feb. 2024
  • Some ranchers though have made changes to assure the health of the Big Hole, which is situated in a county that has more cattle than any other in the state.
    Jim Robbins, New York Times, 12 Sep. 2023
  • But those are concerns voiced mainly by farmers and ranchers.
    Andrew McKean, Outdoor Life, 26 Oct. 2023
  • There are grocery stores in town but why not do as a real rancher might and go fish for your dinner in the Bitterroot River?
    Leena Kim, Town & Country, 14 Nov. 2022
  • Her short videos about life as a young mother and rancher’s wife quickly resonated with viewers from Texas to Britain.
    Lisa Bonos, Anchorage Daily News, 4 June 2023
  • The ranchers appreciate the work being done to save their animals, Rice said.
    Tara Duggan, San Francisco Chronicle, 9 Mar. 2023
  • Unless a rancher has access to tens of thousands of acres, herd sizes have to be limited to make this kind of agriculture work.
    Chuck Blount, San Antonio Express-News, 1 June 2022
  • A number of the ranchers have reached settlements with Flannery, which has already spent more than $800 million on land.
    Ethan Baron, The Mercury News, 1 Apr. 2024
  • Ford plays the family rancher, while Mirren plays his wife Cara Dutton.
    Kelly Wynne, Peoplemag, 27 Apr. 2023
  • This property is expected to support the rancher’s herd for two months.
    Brian Maffly, The Salt Lake Tribune, 9 Dec. 2022
  • For the second year in a row, a last-ditch lawsuit by ranchers aims to halt the aerial extermination effort.
    Los Angeles Times, 22 Feb. 2023

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