Example sentences for: cowboy

How can you use “cowboy” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • In the movie, Sheriff Woody, the cowboy action figure (voice supplied by Tom Hanks), turns out to be a valuable relic of the late 1950s; he is stolen by an unsavory collector/toy-store owner named Al (Wayne Knight) and sold to a museum in Japan.

  • Anglos coined the word buckaroo, meaning vaquero, because they disliked the word cowboy and did not want to call themselves by that name.

  • The vaquero or buckaroo is a westerner and the cowboy is a southerner.

  • Woody Harrelson is "spectacularly kinetic" (Stephen Holden, the New York Times ) as a ne'er-do-well cowboy, but the rest of the film drags.

  • For example, Mother Jones reported that the National Cowboy Hall of Fame sued to block metrication, claiming "the West was won by the inch, foot, yard, and mile."


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