landsman

Example Sentences

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She married a landsman, who became a diamond merchant; in the early nineteen-fifties, the couple resettled in the Bronx, and some fifteen years later, as empty-nesters, they went back to Israel.

From The New Yorker • Mar. 8, 2017

He had the tolerance of a landsman, the faith that comes with witnessing the changing seasons year in and year out.

From Time • Jul. 25, 2012

Joe Coomer is another sort of adventurer, a landsman who falls in love with a 60-year-old, 28-ft. wooden motor launch with a short mast and a steadying sail.

From Time Magazine Archive

In the language of the landsman, we park our boat at our dock as you might park a motor home in your driveway.

From Time Magazine Archive

Farmer, goatherd, cattleherd, hunter or artisan, the landsman looks at the ocean as at a salt unsteady realm that has nothing to do with him at all.

From "A Wizard of Earthsea" by Ursula K. Le Guin