cowboys
Example Sentences
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At the time, however, the frontier – with its rugged cowboys, miners and railroad men – defined American manhood.
From Salon • Apr. 6, 2026
In that thing about the cowboys with Hoss….
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 26, 2026
“Thieves are normally going to go back to what they know, and cowboys know livestock,” says Brittain.
From Barron's • Feb. 13, 2026
“Cody gave the world its image of cowboys and what the American West was about while creating a new form of entertainment that out-Barnumed P.T. Barnum,” says Hutton.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 25, 2026
He became a plain on which, like the cowboys and Indians in the movies, she and her husband fought.
From "Song of Solomon" by Toni Morrison
