How to Use gamekeeper in a Sentence

gamekeeper

noun
  • The gamekeeper sharpens the blade with a whetstone and shows him how it is done.
    Josephine Livingstone, The New Republic, 9 Apr. 2018
  • If Brees has torn the UCL in his thumb, often referred to as gamekeeper or skier’s thumb, that could mean surgery.
    San Diego Union-Tribune, 15 Sep. 2019
  • Now, the gamekeepers feed the birds a medicated grit that kills the worms that once decimated the flocks.
    William Booth, Washington Post, 23 Dec. 2017
  • In the end, Maurice finds happiness with Alec Scudder, a gamekeeper on Clive’s estate.
    Sarah Larson, The New Yorker, 19 May 2017
  • Most traces of the villa disappeared until 1864 when a gamekeeper noticed some of the surviving walls.
    Jason Daley, Smithsonian, 24 July 2019
  • Hilarion, the gamekeeper, is in love with Giselle and feels threatened by Albrecht, who flirts and pretends he isn’t engaged.
    Marcia Manna, sandiegouniontribune.com, 8 Mar. 2018
  • While the lord of the manor and the upper crust feasted on a delectable haunch of venison, the gamekeeper and other servants had to settle for edible viscera.
    Richard Lederer, San Diego Union-Tribune, 12 Nov. 2022
  • The Mk II is certainly fit for its purpose as the personal vehicle of a magic gamekeeper.
    Brendan McAleer, Car and Driver, 20 Oct. 2022
  • Auxiliary teams were made up of locals who knew the land well, including gamekeepers, foresters and poachers, according to FLS.
    Theresa MacHemer, Smithsonian Magazine, 10 Mar. 2020
  • The late actor played the iconic Hagrid, the bearded, lovable gamekeeper at Hogwarts who guided the Potter gang through many adventures.
    Aimée Lutkin, ELLE, 15 Oct. 2022
  • As the novel ends, after meeting the devil, who looks like a gentle gamekeeper, Lolly feels giddy, as though she had been thrown into the air and suddenly begun to fly.
    Longreads, 10 June 2019
  • In contrast is the almost hallucinatory verdure of the grounds outdoors, the world of the gamekeeper (Jack O’Connell) with whom the Lady forges a passionate affair.
    Maria Neuman, WSJ, 2 Dec. 2022
  • Jon Gaunt is a gamekeeper at a pheasant hunting and equestrian estate in southern England.
    Washington Post, 2 Apr. 2021
  • As the area’s longtime chief gamekeeper, Grandpa has honored and protected nature.
    Dennis Harvey, Variety, 10 Nov. 2021
  • Connie becomes a caregiver of sorts for her husband and soon meets and falls in love with Oliver Mellors, the gamekeeper on the Chatterley family estate.
    Andy Meek, BGR, 26 Nov. 2022
  • This steamy romance follows Lady Chatterley, a blue-blooded woman who falls out of love with her husband and begins an affair with the gamekeeper of their estate.
    Olivia McCormack, Washington Post, 2 Dec. 2022
  • Lawrence’s free-thinking noblewoman who has an affair with her gamekeeper (Jack O’Connell).
    Radhika Seth, Vogue, 12 Apr. 2022
  • Whisper was brought into the family following the death of one of the gamekeepers at the royal family’s Sandringham estate in Norfolk.
    Simon Perry, PEOPLE.com, 18 Apr. 2018
  • The story, set in England shortly after the conclusion of World War I, basically features a wealthy wife who falls hard for the gamekeeper on her family estate.
    Maren Estrada, BGR, 3 Dec. 2022
  • Still, the industry used carriage types to describe its models, like phaeton (a light, open carriage), shooting brake (a carriage meant for gamekeepers and sportsmen) and cabriolet (a light carriage with a foldable hood drawn by one horse).
    James Schembari, New York Times, 4 Sep. 2017
  • According to the estate’s website, over 200 people make their living from the estate, including gamekeepers, gardeners, farmers, and those who work in Sandringham’s sawmill and its apple juice pressing plant.
    Chanel Vargas, Town & Country, 13 Dec. 2018
  • O’Connell embodies a more refined and cerebral version of the title character, gamekeeper Oliver Mellors, than seen in many previous adaptations.
    Sheri Linden, The Hollywood Reporter, 7 Sep. 2022
  • Now this poacher turned gamekeeper is trying to stop Congress from holding the current administration to account by withholding information.
    Stephen Collinson, CNN, 2 Oct. 2019

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