How to Use marksman in a Sentence

marksman

noun

• Del Rio was a 6-foot-4 marksman on a team that scored like crazy.
  — Daniel Brown, The Mercury News, 21 May 1950
• The career marksman is a floor spacer who can start in spots or come off the bench.
  — Scott Horner, Indianapolis Star, 11 June 2018
• Vanya being a lousy marksman, the play doesn’t veer into tragedy.
  — Charles McNultytheater Critic, Los Angeles Times, 7 June 2022
• The 54-year-old Israel marksman is aiming for his first gold.
  — Emily Burack, sun-sentinel.com, 25 Aug. 2021
• By all accounts, though, his skills as a marksman leave much to be desired.
  — Washington Post, 23 Dec. 2021
• One of them, a fair- haired youth, inspected his weapon with the calm detachment of a marksman.
  — Andrew Liptak, The Verge, 17 June 2018
• Who makes that final drive in Dallas last week other than Rodgers, the frisky marksman?
  — Peter King, SI.com, 15 Oct. 2017
• Later, a passerby, impressed by this display, trots off in search of the marksman.
  — Dhruv Khullar, The New Yorker, 16 Jan. 2022
• The best marksmen at the time could manage at most three or four rounds a minute from their muzzle-loading muskets.
  — Sun Sentinel Editorial Board, Sun Sentinel, 11 Jan. 2024
• Antti was shot through the nasal cavity by a Red Guard marksman on a drizzly evening in Tampere.
  — Arna Bontemps Hemenway, The Atlantic, 19 July 2019
• Catherine says her husband was a marksman and a gun expert.
  — CBS News, 7 May 2022
• The former Villanova star is a marksman from deep and made the Pacers pay with three 3-pointers.
  — Akeem Glaspie, The Indianapolis Star, 12 Jan. 2023
• Of course, this kind of swap -- putting marksman J.R. Smith back with the starters -- doesn't happen without Wade's leadership.
  — Chris Fedor, cleveland.com, 24 Oct. 2017
• Huckabay, who Dudley said is a veteran and marksman, made the one-shot kill.
  — Rebecca Hennes, Houston Chronicle, 20 Feb. 2020
• If Marshall gets hot from three-point range, guard Landry Shamet is a skilled marksman from three-point range who might be the perfect answer.
  — Usa Today Sports, USA TODAY, 16 Mar. 2018
• Dawson joined the Army at age 17, serving as a marksman and sharpshooter.
  — Sophia Scorziello, Variety, 23 Mar. 2023
• To this point in his college career, Toppin wouldn't be confused for a 3-point marksman.
  — Ryan Black, The Courier-Journal, 21 Nov. 2022
• Lukaku, meanwhile, has played two games fewer than Kane, but even his impressive record cannot match that of the Spurs marksman.
  — SI.com, 27 Sep. 2017
• Sport shooters, hunters, and target marksmen will each be hard-pressed to find a handgun with more value for the money.
  — Field & Stream, 17 Sep. 2019
• López Obrador adapts speeches to his audiences with the precision of a marksman.
  — Nacha Cattan, Bloomberg.com, 30 June 2018
• Out-and-proud Billy (a magnetic Moses Bossenbroek) is an ace marksman by day, drag queen by night.
  — Thomas Floyd, Washington Post, 9 Nov. 2019
• Lopez went on to a good career at Pepperdine, leading it to the Tournament as a 3-point marksman point guard.
  — Richard Obert, The Arizona Republic, 13 June 2021
• And so Scott, who in real life is a sniper-grade marksman and who teaches his fellow agents how to shoot, stepped in to school the young neo-Nazi on the rudiments of gun safety.
  — Paul Solotaroff, Rolling Stone, 30 Jan. 2022
• That may not be true for Ellington, a career 38.1% 3-point marksman who’s improved each week this season.
  — Omari Sankofa Ii, Detroit Free Press, 26 Jan. 2021
• The pelts of three grizzlies and several caribou slung over his porch railing leave little doubt about the 36-year-old's skill as a marksman.
  — Anchorage Daily News, 14 Dec. 2019
• Not what many would expect from a career 33-percent marksman.
  — Joe Vardon, cleveland.com, 27 Feb. 2018
• Dave was an accomplished artist, potter and marksman, as well as a faithful servant of God.
  — courant.com, 7 Dec. 2019
• At the sound of someone descending the stairs, an Alpha marksman whose call sign is Mirage stiffened.
  — Isabelle Khurshudyan, Washington Post, 15 Feb. 2024
• The roof where Crooks lay was less than 164 yards from where Trump was speaking, a distance from which a decent marksman could reasonably hit a human-sized target.
  — Michael Biesecker, arkansasonline.com, 15 July 2024
• Advertisement By that point in his life, Pierson, a former Army combat marksman, had been a prosecutor for 30 years.
  — Anita Chabria, Los Angeles Times, 28 June 2024

Last Updated: 30 Nov 2024