How to Use fisherman in a Sentence

fisherman

noun
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  • Once, in grade school, Frank and I came across a small shark caught by a fisherman with a rod and reel.
    — Smithsonian Magazine, 10 July 2023
  • This gives fishermen a jump start on the spawn and the chance to land a giant largemouth.
    — Shaye Baker, Field & Stream, 13 Mar. 2024
  • After about a month, the fishermen noticed that the buoy was gone.
    — Elizabeth Kolbert, The New Yorker, 4 Sep. 2023
  • There are a lot of baits and lures out there that are made to catch fishermen rather than fish.
    — Derek Horner, Outdoor Life, 9 May 2024
  • Koutrakis is the child of a fisherman who worked those waters for 60 years.
    — Paul Greenberg, Smithsonian Magazine, 21 Dec. 2022
  • Andrés said of the dish, which fishermen would prepare on the boat.
    — Aaron Hutcherson, Washington Post, 2 Nov. 2023
  • The other fisherman was law clerk Daniel Strunk of the Vati tribe and, well, that didn’t work out so well.
    — al, 6 Apr. 2022
  • The next year, a fisherman saw two men throw a large bundle, believed to be a dead body, over the side of the bridge.
    — Natalie Wallington, Kansas City Star, 27 June 2024
  • The report put the blame on the failure of a clip of the kind that fishermen use to connect hooks and lures on their lines.
    — Mike Hendricks, Kansas City Star, 3 Jan. 2025
  • By sunset, kids splash in the shallows while fishermen haul in their last catch of the day.
    — Natalie Stoclet, Forbes, 18 Jan. 2025
  • One day, a mermaid named Aycayia is caught in the net of a fisherman.
    — Jessica Pressman, The Conversation, 20 Dec. 2022
  • The 52-year-old fisherman was staying at his son's house in Houma.
    — Arkansas Online, 9 Sep. 2021
  • The 52-year-old fisherman was staying at his son’s house in Houma.
    — NBC News, 8 Sep. 2021
  • The stairs are crooked, the floorboards creak with every step, and there are plenty of fishermen’s relics on the walls.
    — Sander Van Den Broecke, Travel + Leisure, 26 Mar. 2023
  • The fishermen used a piece of carp for bait, cast it out into the river and waited for fish to bite.
    — Ariana Garcia, Chron, 20 Apr. 2023
  • Many were steered by fishermen bringing back the day’s catch.
    — Kate Linthicum, Los Angeles Times, 14 Sep. 2023
  • If your plane goes down, and the guy next to you is a really great fisherman, that's great.
    — Dalton Ross, EW.com, 10 Mar. 2023
  • Your eye is also drawn to the silhouettes of a fisherman and his dog in a boat.
    — Hannah Kirby, Journal Sentinel, 28 Mar. 2023
  • King crab fishermen harvest them for just a few weeks in the winter.
    — Coastal Living, Southern Living, 1 Mar. 2024
  • Her husband, Tom Kaulitz, was dressed as the fisherman who hooked her.
    — Alyssa Bailey, ELLE, 1 Nov. 2022
  • Or stroll it as the sun sets and fishermen cast their lines for corbina and mackerel.
    — Laura Randall, Los Angeles Times, 30 May 2024
  • The hand of the fisherman who casts a hook carries the wisdom of his ancestors.
    — Maria Teresa Hernandez, Chicago Tribune, 16 Dec. 2022
  • What was once a sleepy island of whalers and fisherman is now the Hamptons of Germany.
    — Garrett Munce, Town & Country, 4 May 2023
  • The home the 52-year-old fisherman shares with his wife, Pamela, near the bayou was a soggy, smelly mess, all but destroyed in the storm.
    — Kevin McGill and Melinda Deslatte, Anchorage Daily News, 9 Sep. 2021
  • Also buy or create a pair of ice picks on a cord to wrap around a fisherman’s neck.
    — D'arcy Egan, cleveland, 10 Feb. 2022
  • Fish tend to eat the bait better when they’re not being stared at by a fisherman from just a few yards away.
    — Shaye Baker, Field & Stream, 6 Mar. 2024
  • Gone are the taxidermied 70-pounders that ended up on the walls of fisherman’s bars.
    — Julia O’Malley, New York Times, 19 July 2023
  • From a visual point of view, at least, the fisherman whose story drives the film is ideal.
    — Will Tizard, Variety, 3 Nov. 2021
  • In 2018, a Chinese tourist and a local fisherman were killed in hippo attacks on the same day in Kenya.
    — CBS News, 13 Feb. 2025
  • The fisherman aesthetic is expected to be big this year in everything from fashion to lifestyle—and even home decor.
    — Cori Sears, Better Homes & Gardens, 1 Feb. 2025

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