trapper

Example Sentences

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“A lot of these hunting theories I call anecdotal,” said Carter Niemeyer, a retired federal and professional wildlife trapper who has used scents to lure animals for north of six decades.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 1, 2024

“I’m not a trapper, nor a reggaetónero,” he reminds us all in Spanish.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 17, 2023

Carson’s life as a fur trapper, scout and courier was chronicled in dime novels and newspapers accounts that made him a legend in his own time.

From Seattle Times • Sep. 1, 2023

“New Yorkers have no idea how difficult it is to be a street cat,” said Rachel Adams, a cat trapper for Flatbush Cats and a clinical psychologist at Kingsboro Psychiatric Center.

From New York Times • Jun. 8, 2023

I had read so much about the loneliness of the farmer, the trapper, the woodsman during the bleakness of winter that I had come to believe it.

From "My Side of the Mountain" by Jean Craighead George