How to Use oilman in a Sentence

oilman

noun

• Two oilmen would come to grief, more or less, in the 1920s.
  — Patt Morrison, Los Angeles Times, 3 Aug. 2023
• The house, built in 1951, was made for oilman Grady Vaughn Jr.
  — Dallas News, 8 May 2020
• The day Jones said changed his life came in the summer of 1979 when the Arkansas oilman was closing on a loan.
  — Dallas News, 10 Mar. 2022
• One oilman asked how he was supposed to get his pipes out to ranches.
  — Bloomberg Wire, Dallas News, 5 Mar. 2020
• Even his name seemed to fit, like central casting’s idea of what an oilman should be named.
  — Cliff Brunt, The Denver Post, 11 Sep. 2019
• Even his name seemed to fit, like central casting's idea of what an oilman should be named.
  — Fortune, 11 Sep. 2019
• Lyndon Johnson was a wheeling, dealing Texas crook and a friend to the oilman.
  — Kevin Baker, Harper's Magazine, 27 Oct. 2020
• Jones, then still an oilman who had yet to buy the Cowboys, realized how sharp Love was.
  — Jori Epstein, USA TODAY, 11 Mar. 2022
• Dallas oilman Nelson Bunker Hunt bought the ranch in the late 1960s and continued to run horses and cattle on the spread.
  — Dallas News, 11 Mar. 2022
• The skyscraper’s namesake was William Thomas Waggoner, a wealthy rancher and oilman born in 1852.
  — Wire Services, Dallas News, 12 Apr. 2023
• This oilman here was not a nabob like Doheny, but his L.A. oil scandal was going on at the same time.
  — Patt Morrison, Los Angeles Times, 3 Aug. 2023
• Conversely, Jones’ background as an oilman and a team owner is to be far more hands on.
  — Albert Breer, SI.com, 14 Dec. 2017
• The oilman and investor, known for his folksy character and razor-sharp wit, died Wednesday at the age of 91 at his home in Dallas.
  — Cyrus Sanati, Fortune, 14 Sep. 2019
• Less than two years later James, a Wyoming oilman, died when his helicopter crashed.
  — Todd Kelly, The Arizona Republic, 21 Mar. 2023
• During a trip to New Zealand this week, Tillerson was asked how his past as an oilman might help resolve the crisis.
  — Nick Wadhams, Bloomberg.com, 8 June 2017
• Donald Trump drilled down like a Texas oilman desperate to let loose a gusher of oozing sludge.
  — Katy Waldman, Slate Magazine, 1 June 2017
• Based in Tulsa, Flint grew up in Holdenville, Oklahoma, the son of a wildcat oilman and a hard-working mother of two.
  — Brandy McDonnell, USA TODAY, 30 Nov. 2022
• Along came an oilman named Frank T. Pickrell, who, in the early nineteen-twenties, decided to drill a well on that land.
  — Lawrence Wright, The New Yorker, 6 Feb. 2023
• The ex-oilman had waged an often lonely battle within Trump's Cabinet to save the deal.
  — Matthew Lee, Fox News, 15 Mar. 2018
• The ex-oilman had waged an often lonely battle within Trump’s Cabinet to save the deal.
  — Washington Post, 15 Mar. 2018
• The 11-story building was constructed by the family of Longview oilman Rogers Lacy.
  — Steve Brown, Dallas News, 11 May 2023
• But the oilman, who started his career at Conoco and spent 40 years in the industry, knew that something would give — and that there was potential there.
  — New York Times, 23 June 2021
• The Texas oilman who became the first person to climb the highest peak on seven continents would recite it to comfort himself in his tent.
  — Olivia B. Waxman, Time, 1 Apr. 2018
• The posh suburb was developed by H.C. Thorman, an oilman and real estate tycoon, in the 1920s.
  — Timothy Fanning, San Antonio Express-News, 13 Jan. 2022
• Decades ago, there was an oilman who had an underwater chainsaw attached to a barge that removed stumps.
  — Josh Baugh, ExpressNews.com, 13 Oct. 2019
• The hotel opened in 1928, a luxury spot for the Bakersfield oilman, and has since traced the city’s uneven trajectory.
  — Scott Wilson, Washington Post, 19 July 2019
• Pickens could have retired after such a humiliating defeat, but the wily oilman wasn't ready for the golf course just yet.
  — Cyrus Sanati, Fortune, 14 Sep. 2019
• His character was also a suspect in the 1980 series cliffhanger that left the world wondering who shot the oilman J. R. Ewing.
  — The Associated Press, New York Times, 28 May 2017
• The wife of an oilman working in Washington for the Carter administration called.
  — Diane Cowen, Houston Chronicle, 9 Feb. 2018
• The son of an oilman, Ireland grew up in England and Connecticut before settling with his family in a remote part of Texas at age 10.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 24 Apr. 2022

Last Updated: 27 Jun 2024