How to Use frontiersman in a Sentence

frontiersman

noun
  • These frontiersmen knew how to hunt in these forests, what gear to carry, how to create quick shelter.
    — Boyce Upholt, Smithsonian Magazine, 11 June 2024
  • Frontiersmen climbed up on the damask furniture to catch a sight of Jackson.
    — Louisa Thomas, The New Yorker, 19 Jan. 2017
  • The game lets players take on the role of frontiersman who acquire land and swap resources with other players.
    — cleveland.com, 7 Mar. 2018
  • From this stock and their exploits sprang our national myth of the frontiersman-patriot.
    — John Daniel Davidson, National Review, 11 July 2019
  • Idaho was named, in the eighteen-sixties, by a frontiersman huckster who claimed to speak Shoshone.
    — Joshua Jelly-Schapiro, The New Yorker, 13 Apr. 2021
  • At Little Bighorn, Kellogg was less the reporter and much more the frontiersman.
    — Patrick Springer / Forum News Service, Twin Cities, 6 July 2019
  • And then there are the inherent incongruities of having women play rugged frontiersmen.
    — Robert W. Butler, kansascity, 10 Sep. 2017
  • An experienced frontiersman, York knew how to forage for edible plants and hunt wild game.
    — Amanda Bellows, Smithsonian Magazine, 28 June 2024
  • Our history brims with the frontiersman and the immigrant who leave a home and strike out for some new adventure, building a new home and a new life for themselves.
    — Michael Brendan Dougherty, National Review, 24 Jan. 2020
  • Simon Kenton was a legendary frontiersman in Ohio and the Midwest for whom the county is named.
    — Melissa Reinert, Cincinnati.com, 28 Sep. 2017
  • Roosevelt and his neighbors were not exactly the primitive frontiersmen of folk legend, or even of the slightly less distant past.
    — Declan Leary, National Review, 12 Sep. 2019
  • His presence in the community provided frontiersmen with access to one of the strongest drinks on the frontier.
    — Susan Cheever, Foreign Affairs, 16 Feb. 2016
  • The frontiersmen like [Jim] Bridger give way to ideologues like Brigham Young, who were able to marshal the many.
    — Abbey White, The Hollywood Reporter, 18 Jan. 2025
  • Based on real-life frontiersman Hugh Glass, there's a reason Leonardo won his first Oscar with this role.
    — Annie O’Sullivan, Good Housekeeping, 29 June 2022
  • He was nominated for best actor for all of them, winning for his turn as a frontiersman that survives a bear mauling in the 2015 feature.
    — Clayton Davis, Variety, 30 Dec. 2021
  • Whether idealizing the rugged frontiersman or the daring entrepreneur, Americans take pride in the idea of forging their own paths.
    — Sunita Sah, Twin Cities, 9 Mar. 2025
  • In 1769, frontiersman Daniel Boone began to explore present-day Kentucky.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 7 June 2018
  • The frontiersman proved unable to muster sufficient recruits for an expedition, but Jefferson never dropped the idea.
    — Boyce Upholt, Smithsonian Magazine, 11 June 2024
  • In a bolero hat and cowboy boots, the real estate developer — who also owns Calahua, the world’s second-largest producer of coconut cream — looks the part of the frontiersman.
    — Esther Mobley, San Francisco Chronicle, 22 Feb. 2018
  • The most common, according to the board, is that the mountain is named for the brave servant of a pre-Revolutionary War frontiersman Col.
    — Lauren M. Johnson, CNN, 10 Sep. 2019
  • Lizzo returned to campus this month to visit with the Spirit of Houston, which includes the band, cheerleaders, dance mascots, twirlers and frontiersman.
    — Joey Guerra, Houston Chronicle, 26 Aug. 2019
  • John Filson, one of the founders of Cincinnati who died before it was settled in 1788, wrote the first biography of what frontiersman?
    — Jeff Suess, The Enquirer, 2 May 2021
  • So much for the image of the rugged American frontiersman, gun in hand, experiencing his primordial oneness with the wilderness, so beloved by gun rights advocates.
    — Patrick Blanchfield, New Republic, 11 Dec. 2017
  • While some of the stories of this bombastic frontiersman may have been fiction, Bowie is still an iconic figure in Texas history and viewed as an American hero.
    — Tim MacWelch, Outdoor Life, 27 Jan. 2020
  • It was originally named after real-life frontiersman David or Davy Crockett, who became known in popular culture as the king of the wild frontier.
    — Naomi Kaskela, Dallas News, 18 Aug. 2021
  • Inspired by real events, the film tells the story of a frontiersman in the 1800s who is left for dead and must survive a brutal winter in the wilderness before returning to avenge his son’s death.
    — Armando Tinoco, Deadline, 26 Jan. 2026
  • Cowboys and frontiersmen adopted the embellishment from American Indian tribes, which cut tassels into suede buckskins or deer hides to keep warm and to camouflage them in the wild.
    — Ari Stark, WWD, 3 July 2024
  • The deal protects a region that is eight times the size of San Francisco and remains very much as 19th century frontiersman Kit Carson experienced it.
    — Louis Sahagún Staff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 3 Dec. 2020
  • Summer 2026 will be full of vampires, dragons, frontiersmen, superheroes and President Barack Obama.
    — Kelly Lawler, USA Today, 1 June 2026
  • As the story goes, Ben Sublett was an itinerant frontiersman who worked for a westward-expanding railroad in the early 1880s, somewhere out in Apache country.
    — Mike Bezemek, Outside, 29 Oct. 2025

Some of these examples are programmatically compiled from various online sources to illustrate current usage of the word 'frontiersman.' Any opinions expressed in the examples do not represent those of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback about these examples.

Last Updated: