cowpuncher

Example Sentences

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After all, it is a snappy cowpuncher variation on Woody Guthrie’s “Dusty Old Dust/So Long It’s Been Good to Know Yuh” with Ramblin’ Jack Elliott, the folk legend’s old musical partner, singing along.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 2, 2026

He is both corrupt and pure, a dynastic potentate in a helicopter and a solitary cowpuncher in the saddle.

From The New Yorker • Jun. 20, 2018

Jim Williams had tried just about everything � cowpuncher, railroad fireman, mule skinner, tattooer, prize fighter, machinist.

From Time Magazine Archive

Gilbert Wright, now a writer, used to be a cowpuncher, a lifeguard, a utility technician, a tutor.

From Time Magazine Archive

He took me by the arm, and as he did so the cowpuncher who had looked down at Tupper stepped in between us, breaking the marshal’s hold.

From The Land of Frozen Suns by Sinclair, Bertrand W.