cowhand

Example Sentences

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Born in Nebraska and raised in South Dakota, Leahy worked in his youth as a cowhand, a soda jerk and a clerk in a trading post.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 8, 2025

Wearing body cameras, he and brother Clancy Bundy and cowhand Cache Burnside ride hard on horseback roping bulls across the scrubby range, aided by the family dog, Kaylie.

From Seattle Times • Apr. 13, 2024

During her year-long journey, Grace works as a cowhand, domestic servant, con artist and thief.

From Washington Post • Jul. 17, 2017

She’s a boxer, a cowhand, a bronc rider, and unlike most 15-year-olds, she’s pretty sure about the life ahead of her.

From Washington Times • Dec. 16, 2015

Waddles was as insistent upon this point as her parent had been, but never had she known a cowhand who took time and pains to gentle his own string.

From The Settling of the Sage by Evarts, Hal G. (Hal George)