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
Gilbert Wright, now a writer, used to be a cowpuncher, a lifeguard, a utility technician, a tutor.
From Time Magazine Archive
For more than 20 years, Best, a onetime cowpuncher, has run Canon City's stone prison with an iron fist.
From Time Magazine Archive
A black horse which he recognized, and a big, red-faced cowpuncher with gray eyes that did not twinkle.
From Rim o' the World by Fischer, Anton Otto
