How to Use fisherwoman in a Sentence

fisherwoman

noun
  • Good thing, too, because his movie is about a fisherwoman who crafts a husband out of wicker.
    — Brian Welk, IndieWire, 20 Jan. 2026
  • The film follows a lonely fisherwoman who asks a master basket weaver to build her a husband out of wood, only to become the envy of the village that once shunned her.
    — Christian Zilko, IndieWire, 25 Jan. 2026
  • The plot requires the tailor’s wife to introduce doubts in the fisherwoman’s mind about her affectionate man’s fidelity.
    — Peter Debruge, Variety, 26 Jan. 2026
  • Whitman is reportedly an avid fly fisherwoman.
    — David Caraccio, Sacbee.com, 3 Apr. 2026
  • Colman plays as a fisherwoman, her village’s outcast, who asks a basketmaker to weave her a husband (Skarsgård).
    — Mia Galuppo, HollywoodReporter, 20 Jan. 2026
  • In it, a former summer resident returns to a coastal hamlet, now sinking under the sea, sparks memories and desires in a fisherwoman and her young grand-daughter.
    — John Hopewell, Variety, 10 Apr. 2026
  • The film centers on a widowed fisherwoman, travelling alone through snowbound northern Minnesota, who interrupts the kidnapping of a teenage girl.
    — Leo Barraclough, Variety, 6 Aug. 2025
  • In this darkly comic folk tale, Olivia Colman also stars as a spinster fisherwoman fighting for her relationship with Skarsgård who stars as a literal tree.
    — Kate Erbland, IndieWire, 21 Jan. 2026
  • In each port, travelers can expect excursions that are both heart-pounding and dip into the local culture, like a helicopter flight over the towering Mahoney Falls or a local seafood tasting led by an Alaskan fisherwoman.
    — Jessica Puckett, Condé Nast Traveler, 11 Feb. 2026
  • On Tuesday, June 16, fisherwoman Bae Cadotte was dragged into the surf for seven minutes before bystanders helped pull her to safety, according to KTVU FOX 2.
    — Gabrielle Rockson, PEOPLE, 18 June 2026
  • Where Wilson and Fischer really deepen Wills-Jones’ tale is in the private moments between the fisherwoman and her wicker husband, who awaits her at the altar in a handsome new suit and shoes borrowed from her neighbors — the tailor (Nabhaan Rizwan), shoemaker (Scott Alexander Yougng) and so on.
    — Peter Debruge, Variety, 26 Jan. 2026

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