How to Use mountain man in a Sentence

mountain man

noun
  • And so, there's just this weird blank where Daryl was the mountain man out there.
    — Dalton Ross, EW.com, 9 Mar. 2021
  • Gattis is a throwback who doesn't wear batting gloves and looks like some kind of mountain man.
    — USA TODAY, 23 Oct. 2017
  • The in-between phase of baby's butt hairless to mountain man can be weeks, months even.
    — Liza Corsillo, GQ, 18 Sep. 2017
  • The punch line to the one about the mountain man still resonates at The Star to this day.
    — Dallas News, 20 May 2022
  • Drew loved the cold weather and had the heart, spirit and adventure of a true mountain man.
    — courant.com, 28 Jan. 2018
  • His beard was hugely overgrown, but Violet had sort of a thing for the mountain man look.
    — Andrew Liptak, The Verge, 8 July 2018
  • Bridger introduces her to the solitary mountain man, Isaac Reed.
    — Erik Kain, Forbes, 9 Jan. 2025
  • Near the various ages of Abe is a bronze sculpture of a mountain man with a turkey slung over his shoulder.
    — Gregg Doyel, Indianapolis Star, 5 July 2018
  • Turner is a man of few words, the sort of grizzled, stoic mountain man that prefers a horse to a truck, and animals to people.
    — Erik Kain, Forbes.com, 21 July 2025
  • Typically, the life of a mountain man or trapper was a hard and isolated lifestyle.
    — Aly Walansky, Forbes.com, 13 Sep. 2025
  • Even though some early trappers and mountain men had brought back word of a land often far from desertlike, the idea persisted.
    — Johnforristerross, Longreads, 2 July 2018
  • Among its first eternal residents was a mountain man who killed a grizzly bear and vice versa somewhere out in Malibu.
    — Patt Morrison, Los Angeles Times, 27 Feb. 2024
  • Think of him as the Serpico of the Sierra, a little snarly and gruff and frayed around the edges — a ponytailed ex-surfer turned mountain man.
    — Los Angeles Times, oregonlive, 16 Feb. 2020
  • In Season 1, Charlie is only once seen in love (or perhaps just lust) with a shirtless mountain man hunk, in the ninth episode.
    — Marco Della Cava, USA TODAY, 9 Mar. 2023
  • In contrast to the mild, placid Allen, Mahaney is an irascible mountain man who could start an argument in an empty room.
    — Smithsonian, 29 July 2017
  • Cozart, 19, stands at 6-foot-6, 260 pounds, wears a beard a mountain man would be proud of and requires a size 18 shoe.
    — David Eckert, Austin American Statesman, 18 Feb. 2026
  • The contrast between the zesty citruses, florals, and smoky elements makes for a daring fragrance that channels your inner mountain man.
    — Janelle Okwodu, Vogue, 20 Dec. 2022
  • Heroine Gerda begins her odyssey with help from mountain man Kai to liberate their kingdom from eternal winter.
    — Mary Carole McCauley, baltimoresun.com, 29 Aug. 2019
  • While this isn’t an obvious holiday romance, the winter vibes are there including running in the snow, sexy snow storms, and a grumpy mountain man who only wears flannel.
    — Literary Hub, 12 Dec. 2025
  • In the film, Jeremiah’s life of peace and isolation as a mountain man in the Rocky Mountains turns into a harrowing tale of survival.
    — Tim Lammers, Forbes.com, 16 Sep. 2025
  • As the investigation into the accident continues, those who knew and loved Helger are mourning the loss of an authentic mountain man.
    — Julie Jag, The Salt Lake Tribune, 5 Jan. 2023
  • There’s also the elaborate animal-catching ingenuity of a mountain man (Wes Tank) who inspires him.
    — Robert Abele, Los Angeles Times, 15 Mar. 2024
  • The last of the Wild West and its mountain men appear on our earliest covers, while midcentury issues were cheerful and relatable to most readers.
    — The Editors, Outdoor Life, 28 June 2023
  • And for his crew Powell chose mountain men and Civil War veterans with virtually no experience on the water.
    — Gerard Helferich, WSJ, 19 July 2018
  • Tusk Johnson, a former celebrity mountain man, returns to Lone Moose asking for a big favor; Honeybee registers for a contest to win her own mall kiosk.
    — Washington Post, 27 Nov. 2021
  • Irion started thinking of the project as the soundtrack to an imaginary movie, inspired in part by 1972’s Jeremiah Johnson, which starred Robert Redford as a mountain man.
    — Simon Vozick-Levinson, Rolling Stone, 5 Aug. 2024
  • Davis eventually chose 43 pieces of writing, including adventure stories complete with colorful sketches of mountain men, houndsmen and campfire storytellers — the stuff, indeed, of an active boy’s dreams.
    — Richard A. Marini, ExpressNews.com, 17 Oct. 2019
  • Go beyond the meme and give this one a watch, as Redford stars as a veteran of the Mexican-American War in the 1800s who finds new purpose living life as a mountain man.
    — Brian Truitt, USA Today, 16 Sep. 2025
  • Known widely as a mountain man, Beckwourth embarked on a fur-trading expedition in 1823 and an expedition to the Rocky Mountains the following year.
    — Los Angeles Times, 4 Nov. 2021
  • Certainly not the gormless Parson Henry, or the doofus-y mountain man (Nathan Zellner) who crosses paths with them in the wilderness, sporting a malfunctioning rifle and a nasty temper.
    — Justin Chang, latimes.com, 21 June 2018

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