cowboy

Example Sentences

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The idea was that a well-constructed welfare state could deliver the same material standard of living as America’s cowboy capitalism, or better.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 21, 2026

She is coming to capture the cowboy aliens,” Gordon-Crozier explains.

From Los Angeles Times • May 20, 2026

It was there that he fell in love with his new home state, and started wearing boots and cowboy hats.

From Slate • Apr. 19, 2026

The key player of the “love trapezoid,” as Raicek called it, is Damon, an urban cowboy of a jewelry designer who moves among three beguiling women, the narrator among them.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 16, 2026

We pulled all the old Christmas decorations out of storage and placed them around the park—things like wreaths made of horseshoes and cowboy boots filled with fake poinsettias.

From "Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus" by Dusti Bowling