How to Use musher in a Sentence

musher

noun
Definition of mushernext
  • During the race, mushers must take one 24-hour layover at a checkpoint to rest.
    — Mark Thiessen, ajc, 10 Mar. 2023
  • Alaska had a railway line from Seward to Nenana, to which the serum was shipped and picked up by the first dog musher.
    — Ned Rozell | Alaska Science, Anchorage Daily News, 6 May 2023
  • Anna Coke, a 17-year-old musher, has been mushing for years.
    — Marlena Sloss New York Times, Star Tribune, 19 Mar. 2021
  • Kristin Knight Pace is a former dog musher, a mother, a park ranger, a pilot, a writer, and an Alaskan.
    — Cat Jaffee, Outside Online, 27 Feb. 2023
  • Thirty-three mushers will race with their dogs nearly 1,000 miles through the Alaskan wilderness.
    — Alicia Delgallo, USA TODAY, 2 Mar. 2023
  • Seavey is now tied with Rick Swenson, the only other musher to have won five titles.
    — Alan Taylor, The Atlantic, 15 Mar. 2021
  • Part of where to take that layover plays into the strategy of most every musher.
    — Mark Thiessen, ajc, 10 Mar. 2023
  • This made for such a bumpy ride that mushers ended up with sprained ankles, bruises, and broken sleds.
    — Victoria Petersen, WIRED, 4 Mar. 2023
  • For the first part of the race, mushers dealt with high temperatures, causing some to alter their strategies.
    — Mark Thiessen, ajc, 15 Mar. 2023
  • Page and Joe Redington Sr., a local musher, work together to launch the first event.
    — CNN, 18 Feb. 2022
  • The bikers were then just ahead of Iditarod dog teams and mushers, who started the race in Anchorage on March 5.
    — Ned Rozell | Alaska Science, Anchorage Daily News, 8 Apr. 2023
  • Given the fact that the weather is one factor a musher can’t control, the smartest strategy is to be flexible.
    — Jenny McCoy, SELF, 15 Nov. 2022
  • The resident of the cabin and another musher left food for Leon in the hopes of catching him, according to the trail committee.
    — From Usa Today Network and Wire Reports, USA TODAY, 6 June 2022
  • Last week, 25-year-old Dallas Seavey became the youngest musher ever to win the Iditarod.
    — Sierra Shafer, Outside Online, 22 Mar. 2012
  • Veteran musher Thomas Waerner won last year and was stranded in Alaska for months after the race.
    — Ben Church, CNN, 6 Mar. 2021
  • Unseasonably warm storms can bring rain instead of snow, washing away the crucial sea ice in Norton Sound that mushers must cross toward the end of the race.
    — Victoria Petersen, WIRED, 4 Mar. 2023
  • In 2019, mushers in the Iditarod, who normally drive their dog teams on the Bering Sea ice to the finish line in Nome, were forced onto the beach because of open water.
    — Mark Thiessen, Anchorage Daily News, 18 June 2023
  • On a training run last month, rookie musher Bridgett Watkins had four of her dogs seriously injured by a moose, which wouldn’t leave and at times stood over the dogs.
    — NBC News, 6 Mar. 2022
  • For one thing, mushers arrive there having rested for a mandatory eight hours in White Mountain, 55 miles ago.
    — Zachariah Hughes, Anchorage Daily News, 17 Mar. 2023
  • Here, musher Blair Braverman shares her top ten tips for keeping cozy in frigid temperatures.
    — Blair Braverman, Outside Online, 10 Dec. 2020
  • The race, which takes about 10 days, started with 38 mushers at the ceremonial start in Anchorage.
    — Mark Thiessen, Fortune, 12 Mar. 2024
  • From that lovely village on the Fish River, which is the final place Iditarod mushers are required to rest about 70 miles from Nome, the bikers took off again.
    — Ned Rozell | Alaska Science, Anchorage Daily News, 8 Apr. 2023
  • This year was Waerner's second stab at the challenging contest and winning after nine days of hard work was a dream come true for the veteran musher -- the person who drives the sled.
    — Ben Church, CNN, 2 June 2020
  • Holmes was the first musher to leave the Eagle Island checkpoint early Saturday morning.
    — Mark Thiessen, al, 11 Mar. 2023
  • Any musher with a confirmed positive test during the race will be withdrawn and isolated.
    — Mark Thiessen, Star Tribune, 6 Mar. 2021
  • Beargrease rules mandate that dogs must rest a minimum of eight hours at two race checkpoints, the time divided however the musher sees fit.
    — Alex Kormann, Star Tribune, 24 Nov. 2020
  • Willem Dafoe stars as Norweigian musher Leonhard Seppala.
    — Ben Flanagan | [email protected], al, 15 Feb. 2021
  • As Kaiser and Diehl fielded questions in the race chute after finishing, musher John Baker stood nearby, chatting with some friends.
    — Michelle Theriault Boots, Anchorage Daily News, 15 Mar. 2023
  • As the planet warms, and snow coverage of Alaska’s tundra contracts, other winter sports are converging with the mushers on the little snow that’s left.
    — Talia Barrington, The Atlantic, 31 Jan. 2024
  • The race started March 2 for 38 mushers with a ceremonial run in Anchorage.
    — CBS News, 12 Mar. 2024

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