huntsman

Example Sentences

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"We've been liaising with our contacts and have a home down in Kent lined up with a specialist, where this huntsman can happily live out the rest of their life."

From BBC • Jun. 28, 2023

Pygmy possums would be unlikely to share their box with the spiders; in 2019, a huntsman, which can be six inches from leg to leg, reportedly ate a pygmy possum in Tasmania.

From New York Times • Jul. 6, 2022

Yet Fred’s whispery mumble made his words individually precious, like the feathery footprint of a Pleistocene huntsman on a windswept piece of stone.

From Washington Post • Dec. 7, 2021

Sent by an evil queen to capture an escaped princess, a huntsman instead becomes the young woman’s protector and helps her in her quest to regain control of her kingdom.

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 19, 2019

Like a good huntsman, she was careful to preserve the young; she was “the protectress of dewy youth” everywhere.

From "Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes" by Edith Hamilton