How do you use Musher in a sentence? See 10+ example sentences showing how this word appears in different contexts, including synonyms like traveler or traveller, plus the exact meaning.
Musher meaning
- One who drives a dogsled over ice and snow; specifically, one who participates in a dogsled race.
- One who travels over snow, chiefly by dogsled but also by foot.
Using Musher
- The main meaning on this page is: One who drives a dogsled over ice and snow; specifically, one who participates in a dogsled race. | One who travels over snow, chiefly by dogsled but also by foot.
- Useful related words include: traveler, traveller.
- In the example corpus, musher often appears in combinations such as: the musher, first musher, musher to.
Context around Musher
- Average sentence length in these examples: 21.4 words
- Position in the sentence: 9 start, 6 middle, 3 end
- Sentence types: 18 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Musher
- In this selection, "musher" usually appears near the start of the sentence. The average example has 21.4 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, first, knik, inspirational, eric, award and richie stand out and add context to how "musher" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include between a musher and his and dog on musher hugh neff. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "musher" sits close to words such as abad, abovementioned and abr, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with musher
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Friends and family are helping Canadian musher Nathaniel Hamlyn. (9 words)
Willow musher DeeDee Jonrowe has scratched from the 2018 Iditarod. (10 words)
Musher Ryne Olson leaves Carmacks, Yukon, in the 2019 Yukon Quest sled dog race. (14 words)
He died in New York City in 1983 at the age of 102. He was survived by Rivka and his daughters Dr. Judith Eisenstein (formerly Judith Kaplan), Hadassah Musher, Dr. Naomi Wenner and Selma Jaffe-Goldman. (36 words)
All the dogs used in the film were provided by Snowy Owl Sled Dogs Tours in Canmore and the film highlights the incredible bond between a musher and his lead sled dog, Togo. (33 words)
During his post-win interview at the finish line Andrews said that the last time he saw a fellow Bogus musher was when he left the Bogus checkpoint. (28 words)
Example sentences (18)
At the same time, much of it depends on the amount of effort the musher is willing to put in for that business or company.
Knik musher Eric Kelly said he enjoys the time spent with mushing fans before the official race clock starts.
Mackey was chosen by his fellow mushers to win the Most Inspirational Musher award, which gives him a free entry into next year’s race.
Musher Richie Diehl, who is Dena’ina Athabascan, was one of several Alaska Natives participating in the event.
The food was awesome that the Mad Musher put on and it was so delicious,” she says.
All the dogs used in the film were provided by Snowy Owl Sled Dogs Tours in Canmore and the film highlights the incredible bond between a musher and his lead sled dog, Togo.
Timber is a four-year-old on rookie musher Benjamin Good’s team, and Timber’s mother was Good’s first sled dog, Piper.
Musher Matthew Failor and his sled dog team crossing the Bering Sea toward a prior checkpoint, Koyuk, during the 2020 Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race.
Musher Ryne Olson leaves Carmacks, Yukon, in the 2019 Yukon Quest sled dog race.
Nicolas Petit was the first musher to arrive Monday in Rainy Pass, a community of two people and a lodge that’s open year-round.
The first musher to Dawson City wins a few ounces of gold, a nice nod to the city’s heritage.
During his post-win interview at the finish line Andrews said that the last time he saw a fellow Bogus musher was when he left the Bogus checkpoint.
Friends and family are helping Canadian musher Nathaniel Hamlyn.
Nome musher Aaron Burmeister at the Iditarod Ceremonial Start in downtown Anchorage, March 1, 2014.
That accident left the musher with a broken arm and other injuries, but he vowed at the time to return to Fort Kent to race again.
Willow musher DeeDee Jonrowe has scratched from the 2018 Iditarod.
Yukon Quest race officials say a dog on musher Hugh Neff's team died on the trail.
He died in New York City in 1983 at the age of 102. He was survived by Rivka and his daughters Dr. Judith Eisenstein (formerly Judith Kaplan), Hadassah Musher, Dr. Naomi Wenner and Selma Jaffe-Goldman.
Common combinations with musher
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- the musher 2×
- first musher 2×
- musher to 2×