Example sentences for: stockman

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

  • My cynical colleague Alan Stockman suggests an alternative candidate, namely, the regulatory climate.

  • As described by David Stockman, he simply couldn't process the information that his contradictory goals would produce a vast deficit, despite repeated attempts to spell it out for him in words and pictures.

  • A group of words reflects the immediate needs of an isolated settlement seeking self-sufficiency: dairy station, farm, farming (restricted to crop-raising) farm-station, stockholder, stock-keeper, stockman, stock owner, stock pen , and stock yard .

  • And where a basic occupation centers on livestock, as in Biblical Judea or parts of the American West or the Australian bush, the stockman's jargon is bound to be a main source of metaphors, whether the subject be marital transgression as in the banter at our picnic, or the Lord's providing for His flock as in the Twenty-third Psalm, or national character as in “Waltzing Matilda.”


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