trapper

Example Sentences

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Efforts by animal activists to get allegations concerning a longtime coyote trapper in Torrance before L.A.

From Los Angeles Times • May 17, 2024

Wardens and trappers from the California Department of Fish and Wildlife and a trapper for El Dorado County responded and found the mountain lion, the sheriff’s office said.

From New York Times • Mar. 24, 2024

“I’m not a trapper, nor a reggaetónero,” he reminds us all in Spanish.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 17, 2023

He says an old trapper there taught him the Indigenous method of making buckskin leather by soaking hides in animal brains and tanning them using wood smoke.

From Seattle Times • Sep. 14, 2023

I showed him how to make a living working for himself as a fur trapper, prospector, carpenter, woodsman, horses, etc.

From "In Cold Blood" by Truman Capote