How to Use lobsterman in a Sentence

lobsterman

noun
  • The lobsterman pulled the person out and helped bring them to the boat launch, WGME said.
    Kerry Breen, CBS News, 17 Nov. 2023
  • And many of these laws come from the lobstermen themselves.
    Eva Botkin-Kowacki, The Christian Science Monitor, 25 June 2018
  • The Coast Guard has suspended the search for a lobsterman who went missing off the coast of Maine.
    Emily Sweeney, BostonGlobe.com, 24 July 2023
  • The state held the last of several meetings with lobstermen about the new rules on Thursday in Freeport.
    Washington Post, 27 June 2019
  • Maine got its star turn as a lobsterman talked up Trump’s trade policies.
    Adam Goldman, New York Times, 25 Aug. 2020
  • But then, the next day, a lobsterman, who owned a boat like the one reported to be in distress, called Stillwell.
    IEEE Spectrum, 15 Apr. 2023
  • Not so long ago, the lobstermen of Point Judith threw away Jonah crabs that got tangled in traps.
    Robert Lee Hotz, WSJ, 22 Dec. 2018
  • Sam Fuller, a lobsterman, took to surfing with a tourniquet stuffed in his wetsuit.
    New York Times, 20 Oct. 2021
  • A seafood platter seemed the work more of a sushi chef than of a lobsterman, the snow-crab legs split carefully, the morsel-size blue shrimp sweet and crunchingly fresh.
    Shauna Lyon, The New Yorker, 22 Apr. 2017
  • Lyman Creel, a lobsterman, and his wife, Grace, have a son and a daughter, Wren, who is David's sometime girlfriend.
    Dan Cryer, Star Tribune, 5 Mar. 2021
  • For lobstermen testing the gear, the advances over the past few years have been significant.
    David Abel, BostonGlobe.com, 1 Mar. 2023
  • While many assume Nor’easter is the name is a product of some kind of Maine lobsterman accent, that’s probably not true.
    Sarah Begley, Time, 7 Mar. 2018
  • The team of my youth lets go of seasons like a lobsterman tossing underweight crustaceans back into the Gulf of Maine.
    The Hive, 16 Feb. 2017
  • Well, not really; but lobstermen are in the North Atlantic.
    Ron Browning, baltimoresun.com, 9 Aug. 2019
  • The lobsterman, the shepherd and the pilot have little in common with the young fashion and lifestyle creators who rose to prominence more than a decade ago.
    Steven Kurutz, New York Times, 28 Oct. 2023
  • Cruise ships found refuge at berths in Portland, while lobstermen in Bar Harbor and elsewhere pulled traps from the water and hauled boats inland.
    Robert F. Bukaty, David Sharp, Anchorage Daily News, 17 Sep. 2023
  • Former lobsterman Joe Young runs both the restaurant and an art gallery, an old fish house full of photos of mid-20th-century Corea.
    Virginia M. Wright, Outside Online, 18 June 2020
  • Owner Don Lindgren, a specialist in books about food and drink, wears a lobsterman's beard and grows food on his small homestead a few miles away.
    Kevin West, Travel + Leisure, 12 Apr. 2021
  • Most of lobsterman Justin Papkee’s day is spent throwing lobsters back into the ocean.
    Eva Botkin-Kowacki, The Christian Science Monitor, 25 June 2018
  • But these two hearty lobstermen could've done with a little less adventure one July evening four years ago.
    CBS News, 11 June 2017
  • In 2020, commercial lobsterman Vincent Damm made two trips to sea to bait his traps and discovered that more than a dozen were missing.
    Will Sennott, ProPublica, 18 Apr. 2023
  • Clemente, a Boston native who was previously a lobsterman, has worked the ferry for 18 years with 10 of those as a skipper.
    Stephen Underwood, Hartford Courant, 25 Sep. 2022
  • The picnic tables are surrounded by a wall of blue-wire lobster traps, a hint that co-owner Matt Weber is a lobsterman.
    Christopher Reynoldsstaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 25 July 2019
  • For hundreds of years, lobstermen in the United States have sailed the chilly waters off New England during the summer, lowering and raising traps along the ocean floor.
    Matthew Haag, New York Times, 6 July 2018
  • Braided from the same tough rope that real lobstermen use, The Rope Co. Doormat is perfect for sandy locations that require you to always wipe your feet or shoes at the door.
    Lee Alisha Williams, Southern Living, 6 July 2023
  • Willink, who grew up on an island in Maine as the son of a lobsterman, is an affable mountain of a biologist.
    Christopher Borrelli, chicagotribune.com, 28 Aug. 2019
  • Population drops to 65 or fewer in winter, when snow falls and the few remaining lobstermen set out their traps.
    Christopher Reynoldsstaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 25 July 2019
  • In Maine, lobsters are heading north and some lobstermen are moving into kelp farming.
    Eric Niiler, WSJ, 28 Aug. 2023
  • Search efforts continued Thursday for a Maine lobsterman who has been missing for nearly a week.
    Emily Sweeney, BostonGlobe.com, 27 July 2023
  • Plus, a sugar substitute may increase your chance for stroke, and how lobstermen in New England say rules to protect whales are hurting their livelihoods.
    Taylor Wilson, USA TODAY, 28 Feb. 2023

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