Sentence examples for backwoodsman from inspiring English sources
The word "backwoodsman" is correct and usable in written English
It refers to a person who lives in a rural or remote area, often associated with outdoor skills and a self-sufficient lifestyle. Example: "The backwoodsman navigated the dense forest with ease, relying on his knowledge of the land." Alternatives include "frontiersman" or "woodsman."
noun
A person who is acclimated to living in a forest area that is far removed from civilization or modern conveniences.
IT IS the sort of plot on which network prime-time TV thrives: backwoodsman from the Rocky Mountains, who founded a business by selling satellite dishes out of a pick-up truck (Charlie Ergen), outsmarts savvy media mogul (Rupert Murdoch) to clinch America's biggest satellite-television operator (DirecTV).
The advantages and hardships of western migration are the theme of "The Backwoodsman" (1818), a poem written to call the American author home in his search of literary themes.
They felt that in comparison with men like Seward and Chase, Lincoln was a political pygmy, a backwoodsman, still largely unknown, and a speaker who tried to conceal his inadequacies by telling homespun stories.
It was in northern Idaho, too, that a 1992 stand-off between federal agents and radical backwoodsman Randy Weaver at his cabin on Ruby Ridge ended with the deaths of Weaver's wife and son, and a Deputy US Marshal.
Far be it for me, the backwoodsman author of a skeptical book about the dotcom bubble of the late nineteen-nineties, to suggest that there is any parallel between then and now.
Foote was no backwoodsman.
"I was interested to hear that at Leeds castle people were telling us that Peter Robinson and Ian Paisley were singing from the same hymn sheet but they were having difficulties with some of the backwoodsmen who accompanied them to Leeds Castle.
Last week he proposed an overhaul of the country's antiquated investment-fund and tax laws".German policymakers have been backwoodsmen until now," says Caspar von Zitzewitz at TrendConcept, a fund manager in Frankfurt.
The very names of the rifles resonate with anybody brought up on westerns and war films: the Kentucky, forever associated with backwoodsmen like Davy Crockett and Daniel Boone; the Winchester that tamed the wild west; even the contemporary Special Operations Combat Assault Rifle (SCAR), although Mr Rose admits it lacks "the gorgeous lines" of the rival XM8.
As his ratings have soared, the whiff of power has bound together his improbable alliance of right-wing backwoodsmen and unreconstructed leftists.
It has always been thick with reactionary backwoodsmen susceptible to Mr Haider's populism.
