How to Use woodsman in a Sentence

woodsman

noun
  • While the tournaments helped him become a good archer, the Ozarks taught him to become a woodsman.
    Will Brantley, Field & Stream, 30 Jan. 2020
  • Ambrose has striking blue eyes and wears a woodsman’s beard with a chinstrap of white whiskers.
    Thayer Walker, Scientific American, 29 Dec. 2016
  • The Indiana state seal shows a woodsman with an axe near two sycamore trees, with a buffalo in the foreground jumping over a log.
    The Indianapolis Star, 1 July 2022
  • Hunters and woodsman regularly entered these forests around the city for trade.
    Zack Davisson, Smithsonian Magazine, 11 Sep. 2020
  • And as a flannel-wearing, stubble-sporting, card-carrying woodsman, he's got to eat the part.
    Sarah Rense, Esquire, 18 Jan. 2018
  • Derek Coleman is a strapping, bright guy of 27 with a woodsman’s beard who recently returned from going to see the elephant.
    Fred Dickey, sandiegouniontribune.com, 8 June 2017
  • Lincoln might be derided as a poor woodsman, but he was also valorized for his log cabin roots.
    Thomas J. Sugrue, New York Times, 24 June 2016
  • Variety reports that Timberlake will bring his new woodsman look to the Moda Center on Nov. 16.
    Lizzy Acker, OregonLive.com, 5 Feb. 2018
  • Before long, smoke from the fires of simple timber homes marked the presence of a different kind of settler than the Virginian gentleman farmer: the intrepid woodsman squatter.
    Longreads, 22 Jan. 2020
  • The new colors—olive, woodsman, clementine, aubergine, cerulean, pomegranate, and melon ball—were developed with Pantone color specialists and highlight a mix of earthy tones and fruity neons.
    Kate Dwyer, SELF, 11 Oct. 2017
  • That honeylocust was spared the woodsman’s axe, but preserving a mature tree is not always possible.
    Lisa Greim, The Denver Post, 16 June 2017
  • Survivalism, the practice of preparing for a crackup of civilization, tends to evoke a certain picture: the woodsman in the tinfoil hat, the hysteric with the hoard of beans, the religious doomsayer.
    Evan Osnos, The New Yorker, 30 Jan. 2017
  • The stereotypical Northern woodsman captures one side of that national idea.
    Time, 30 June 2017
  • There are also stories of a family growing together during weeks-long summer stays, the four boys becoming hunters and woodsmen themselves.
    David James, Anchorage Daily News, 23 May 2020
  • Terry, a corporate drone who still brags about his Ivy League pedigree, tries on various macho archetypes: the decisive patriarch, the rugged woodsman, the breadwinner who commutes home every night to a docile wife.
    Judy Berman, Time, 3 Mar. 2022
  • Kephart greatly exaggerated and simplified his metamorphosis into a woodsman.
    Bill Heavey, WSJ, 20 June 2021

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