How to Use lobsterman in a Sentence

lobsterman

noun
  • Take a trip to the ocean, go be with a lobsterman or a seaweed farmer.
    — Carita Rizzo, Deadline, 21 June 2024
  • Sam Fuller, a lobsterman, took to surfing with a tourniquet stuffed in his wetsuit.
    — New York Times, 20 Oct. 2021
  • Just today, a lobsterman off the East Coast was swallowed by a whale, and spit out again.
    — Cynthia Zarin, Harpers Magazine, 19 Sep. 2025
  • One lobsterman spoke to an official and checked the location to see if the missing man was there.
    — Kerry Breen, CBS News, 30 Jan. 2024
  • For lobstermen testing the gear, the advances over the past few years have been significant.
    — David Abel, BostonGlobe.com, 1 Mar. 2023
  • But these two hearty lobstermen could've done with a little less adventure one July evening four years ago.
    — CBS News, 11 June 2017
  • Five lobstermen who are members of a lobster fishing union filed their lawsuit in federal court last week.
    — Patrick Whittle, Fortune, 9 Jan. 2024
  • But then, the next day, a lobsterman, who owned a boat like the one reported to be in distress, called Stillwell.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 15 Apr. 2023
  • The lobsterman pulled the person out and helped bring them to the boat launch, WGME said.
    — Kerry Breen, CBS News, 17 Nov. 2023
  • The state held the last of several meetings with lobstermen about the new rules on Thursday in Freeport.
    — Washington Post, 27 June 2019
  • The Coast Guard has suspended the search for a lobsterman who went missing off the coast of Maine.
    — Emily Sweeney, BostonGlobe.com, 24 July 2023
  • In Maine, lobsters are heading north and some lobstermen are moving into kelp farming.
    — Eric Niiler, WSJ, 28 Aug. 2023
  • Not so long ago, the lobstermen of Point Judith threw away Jonah crabs that got tangled in traps.
    — Robert Lee Hotz, WSJ, 22 Dec. 2018
  • Most of lobsterman Justin Papkee’s day is spent throwing lobsters back into the ocean.
    — Eva Botkin-Kowacki, The Christian Science Monitor, 25 June 2018
  • While many assume Nor’easter is the name is a product of some kind of Maine lobsterman accent, that’s probably not true.
    — Sarah Begley, Time, 7 Mar. 2018
  • The lobsterman, the shepherd and the pilot have little in common with the young fashion and lifestyle creators who rose to prominence more than a decade ago.
    — Steven Kurutz, New York Times, 28 Oct. 2023
  • The team of my youth lets go of seasons like a lobsterman tossing underweight crustaceans back into the Gulf of Maine.
    — The Hive, 16 Feb. 2017
  • Population drops to 65 or fewer in winter, when snow falls and the few remaining lobstermen set out their traps.
    — Christopher Reynoldsstaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 25 July 2019
  • Willink, who grew up on an island in Maine as the son of a lobsterman, is an affable mountain of a biologist.
    — Christopher Borrelli, chicagotribune.com, 28 Aug. 2019
  • Search efforts continued Thursday for a Maine lobsterman who has been missing for nearly a week.
    — Emily Sweeney, BostonGlobe.com, 27 July 2023
  • Owner Don Lindgren, a specialist in books about food and drink, wears a lobsterman's beard and grows food on his small homestead a few miles away.
    — Kevin West, Travel + Leisure, 5 May 2024
  • Owner Don Lindgren, a specialist in books about food and drink, wears a lobsterman's beard and grows food on his small homestead a few miles away.
    — Kevin West, Travel + Leisure, 5 May 2024
  • The picnic tables are surrounded by a wall of blue-wire lobster traps, a hint that co-owner Matt Weber is a lobsterman.
    — Christopher Reynoldsstaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 25 July 2019
  • Lyman Creel, a lobsterman, and his wife, Grace, have a son and a daughter, Wren, who is David's sometime girlfriend.
    — Dan Cryer, Star Tribune, 5 Mar. 2021
  • Situated down a wharf, with lobstermen docking with the day’s catch right outside your window, this posh eatery is the right way to treat yourself to Maine’s ocean bounty.
    — Emma Simard, Saveur, 4 Feb. 2026
  • However, in late spring of 2022, fortunes reversed for Maine lobsterman.
    — Jeremy Repanich, Robb Report, 11 Aug. 2022
  • Plus, a sugar substitute may increase your chance for stroke, and how lobstermen in New England say rules to protect whales are hurting their livelihoods.
    — Taylor Wilson, USA TODAY, 28 Feb. 2023
  • To kick off the trip, guests will travel to Boston’s scenic Seaport District, then board an active boat captained by a local lobsterman.
    — Jared Ranahan, Forbes.com, 21 Aug. 2025
  • Former lobsterman Joe Young runs both the restaurant and an art gallery, an old fish house full of photos of mid-20th-century Corea.
    — Virginia M. Wright, Outside Online, 18 June 2020
  • Clemente, a Boston native who was previously a lobsterman, has worked the ferry for 18 years with 10 of those as a skipper.
    — Stephen Underwood, Hartford Courant, 25 Sep. 2022

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