bushman

Example Sentences

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Locals know Phillips as a bushman with survival skills that would have set him up for building shelters and foraging for food in the wilderness.

From BBC • Sep. 8, 2025

Murray's bid for a second grand slam title Down Under has sparked a light-hearted dig at Australia's iconic celluloid hero "Crocodile Dundee", the weathered bushman played by Paul Hogan in the 1986 film.

From Reuters • Jan. 15, 2013

Surely an Inuit elder or a Kalahari bushman has equal credentials when it comes to describing and passing on a way of life or way of thought to enhance the lives of future generations.

From The Guardian • Nov. 22, 2012

If you go back and look at bushman art, early cave painting, you see sport being illustrated within those paintings.

From New York Times • Jul. 10, 2010

In him he perceived, as he thought, the ordinary bushman, an experienced stock-rider, or, perhaps, confidential drover, and thence he began to wonder how much of his past history he had been made acquainted with.

From Nevermore by Bolderwood, Rolf