How to Use frontiersman in a Sentence

frontiersman

noun
  • But the ad-hoc project brought out the best in frontiersmen.
    Lorraine Boissoneault, Smithsonian, 3 July 2017
  • At Little Bighorn, Kellogg was less the reporter and much more the frontiersman.
    Patrick Springer / Forum News Service, Twin Cities, 6 July 2019
  • Frontiersmen climbed up on the damask furniture to catch a sight of Jackson.
    Louisa Thomas, The New Yorker, 19 Jan. 2017
  • Not like his friend and fellow frontiersman, Daniel Boone.
    Jeff Suess, Cincinnati.com, 18 July 2017
  • Simon Kenton was a legendary frontiersman in Ohio and the Midwest for whom the county is named.
    Melissa Reinert, Cincinnati.com, 28 Sep. 2017
  • Idaho was named, in the eighteen-sixties, by a frontiersman huckster who claimed to speak Shoshone.
    Joshua Jelly-Schapiro, The New Yorker, 13 Apr. 2021
  • The game lets players take on the role of frontiersman who acquire land and swap resources with other players.
    cleveland.com, 7 Mar. 2018
  • John Filson, one of the founders of Cincinnati who died before it was settled in 1788, wrote the first biography of what frontiersman?
    Jeff Suess, The Enquirer, 2 May 2021
  • Based on real-life frontiersman Hugh Glass, there's a reason Leonardo won his first Oscar with this role.
    Annie O’Sullivan, Good Housekeeping, 29 June 2022
  • Kentucky The frontiersman and statesman in the seal represent the people of Kentucky: country and city inhabitants of 1792, when the state was joined the Union.
    Olivia Munson, USA TODAY, 18 Mar. 2023
  • The most common, according to the board, is that the mountain is named for the brave servant of a pre-Revolutionary War frontiersman Col.
    Lauren M. Johnson, CNN, 10 Sep. 2019
  • From this stock and their exploits sprang our national myth of the frontiersman-patriot.
    John Daniel Davidson, National Review, 11 July 2019
  • Our history brims with the frontiersman and the immigrant who leave a home and strike out for some new adventure, building a new home and a new life for themselves.
    Michael Brendan Dougherty, National Review, 24 Jan. 2020
  • In 1769, frontiersman Daniel Boone began to explore present-day Kentucky.
    BostonGlobe.com, 7 June 2018
  • Plot: This movie is actually the first three episodes of the five-part miniseries of Davy Crockett, a real-life frontiersman who became a legend.
    Lauren Hill, chicagotribune.com, 15 Oct. 2019
  • He was nominated for best actor for all of them, winning for his turn as a frontiersman that survives a bear mauling in the 2015 feature.
    Clayton Davis, Variety, 30 Dec. 2021
  • In a bolero hat and cowboy boots, the real estate developer — who also owns Calahua, the world’s second-largest producer of coconut cream — looks the part of the frontiersman.
    Esther Mobley, San Francisco Chronicle, 22 Feb. 2018
  • Your frontiersman now has the ability to saddle up on the back of a tamed beast, considerably reducing the downtime between fights.
    Luke Winkie, Vulture, 9 Apr. 2021
  • Roosevelt and his neighbors were not exactly the primitive frontiersmen of folk legend, or even of the slightly less distant past.
    Declan Leary, National Review, 12 Sep. 2019
  • And then there are the inherent incongruities of having women play rugged frontiersmen.
    Robert W. Butler, kansascity, 10 Sep. 2017
  • The sheriff’s uniform shirt is a frontiersman-khaki color.
    Los Angeles Times, 3 Aug. 2021
  • Lizzo returned to campus this month to visit with the Spirit of Houston, which includes the band, cheerleaders, dance mascots, twirlers and frontiersman.
    Joey Guerra, Houston Chronicle, 26 Aug. 2019
  • While some of the stories of this bombastic frontiersman may have been fiction, Bowie is still an iconic figure in Texas history and viewed as an American hero.
    Tim MacWelch, Outdoor Life, 27 Jan. 2020
  • The deal protects a region that is eight times the size of San Francisco and remains very much as 19th century frontiersman Kit Carson experienced it.
    Louis Sahagún Staff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 3 Dec. 2020
  • It was originally named after real-life frontiersman David or Davy Crockett, who became known in popular culture as the king of the wild frontier.
    Naomi Kaskela, Dallas News, 18 Aug. 2021
  • So much for the image of the rugged American frontiersman, gun in hand, experiencing his primordial oneness with the wilderness, so beloved by gun rights advocates.
    Patrick Blanchfield, New Republic, 11 Dec. 2017
  • This was a breakfast-time cocktail that frontiersmen were drinking, not a seasonal staple choked down while wearing a beautiful, yet, comically large hat.
    Maggie Menderski, The Courier-Journal, 10 Apr. 2023
  • In the hallway, students use construction paper to create two life-size Instagram accounts for American frontiersman Davy Crockett — with captions written in the first and third person.
    Katy Bergen, kansascity.com, 16 May 2017
  • Roosevelt, by contrast, would cultivate the twin modes of frontiersman and exacting naturalist.
    Philip Dray, Time, 1 May 2018
  • Throughout Mother American Night Barlow’s exquisite understanding of power—and his tendency to channel it in the spirit of a heroic (white, male) frontiersman—shines through.
    Jesse Jarnow, WIRED, 5 June 2018

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