trapper

Example Sentences

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Pitting a lovestruck fur trapper against a bucktoothed horde, this underground festival hit is a feverish fit of creative buffoonery — you haven’t experienced anything remotely like it.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 15, 2024

The Miami-born comedian was featured prominently throughout the night, and even starred in three Spanish-laden skits alongside the “Monaco” Latin trapper.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 22, 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

Mr. Fitzsimons, a recreational trapper, was also carrying a six-foot-long unstrung archery bow and a fur pelt draped across his neck.

From New York Times • Jul. 13, 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