COWBOY in a Sentence

Learn COWBOY from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.

Example sentences for COWBOY, such as:

1. The cow answered to its cowboy's touch.
2. I took to the life of a cowboy like a horse takes to oats.
3. The officer who rode like a cowboy reflected for an instant.
4. Another officer, riding with the skillful abandon of a cowboy, galloped his horse to a position directly before the general.

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 Meanings and Examples of COWBOY
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cowboy
 n.  one who tends cattle and performs other duties on horseback; one who is reckless or irresponsible
Classic Sentence:
1  Fuchs had been a cowboy, a stage-driver, a bartender, a miner; had wandered all over that great Western country and done hard work everywhere, though, as grandmother said, he had nothing to show for it.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1. The Shimerdas: IX
2  Another officer, riding with the skillful abandon of a cowboy, galloped his horse to a position directly before the general.
The Red Badge of Courage By Stephen Crane
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 18
3  The officer who rode like a cowboy reflected for an instant.
The Red Badge of Courage By Stephen Crane
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 18
Example Sentence:
1  "The quicker the sooner," Morgan replied in offhand cowboy way.
2  The stereotypical cowboy is a taciturn soul, answering lengthy questions with a "Yep" or "Nope.".
3  I took to the life of a cowboy like a horse takes to oats.
4  The cow answered to its cowboy's touch.