FARMER in a Sentence

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187 example sentences for FARMER, such as:

1. Dad is a good farmer, but nothing else.
2. Of course, he wasn't any good as a farmer.
3. He's a mighty pore farmer and he knows it.
4. The farmers distributed seeds over the field.
5. The farmer's harrow was broken during his working.

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 Meanings and Examples of FARMER
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
farmer
 n.  a person who cultivates land or crops or raises animals
Classic Sentence: (140 in 10 pages)
1  He's a small farmer, not a big planter, and if the boys thought enough of him to elect him lieutenant, then it's not for any darky to talk impudent about him.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER I
2  Raiford Calvert was made first lieutenant, because everybody liked Raif, and Able Wynder, son of a swamp trapper, himself a small farmer, was elected second lieutenant.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER I
3  Too many of their fathers and grandfathers had come up to wealth from the small farmer class for that.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER I
4  He was just plain Cracker, a small farmer, half-educated, prone to grammatical errors and ignorant of some of the finer manners the O'Haras were accustomed to in gentlemen.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXX
5  I can't help you, Scarlett, except by learning with as good grace as possible to be a clumsy farmer.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXI
6  He's a mighty pore farmer and he knows it.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXIX
7  Of course, he wasn't any good as a farmer.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXIX
8  Despite hard work, they were still slender and sensitive looking and remarkably well tended for a farmer's hands.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLI
9  As the sun warmed the world of stubble into a welter of yellow they turned from the highroad, through the bars of a farmer's gate, into a field, slowly bumping over the uneven earth.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER V
10  This motto, however, they did not commend to farmer customers who had had crop failures.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IX
11  Grasshoppers came darkening the sky, and in an hour ate the farmwife's garden and the farmer's coat.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XII
12  A man becomes farmer, grocer, town policeman, garageman, restaurant-owner, postmaster, insurance-agent, and farmer all over again, and the community more or less patiently suffers from his lack of knowledge in each of his experiments.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XX
13  He must have felt guilty, everybody agreed, for as the train left town, a farmer saw him standing in the vestibule and looking out.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVII
14  Dad is a good farmer, but nothing else.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIX
15  Fern saw him fumbling among the overcoats piled on the feedbox at the far end of the barn; soon after she heard a farmer declaring that some one had stolen his bottle.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXII
Example Sentence: (47 in 4 pages)
16  The farmer did not wish to sell his fine colt, but when the horse dealer tickled his palm with a few hundred dollars, he consented.
17  The farmer's harrow was broken during his working.
18  So I promised, and he says: "A farmer by the name of Silas Ph -- " and then he stopped.
19  It belongs to a farmer, you know, and he says it's so useful, it's worth a hundred pounds!
20  There is outrage in Indigenous communities over the recent acquittal of a Saskatchewan farmer of all charges relating to the shooting death of young Colten Boushie.
21  Environmentalists argue that the organization fails to address the needs of third world farmers.
22  It will affect farmers in Spain and to a lesser extent in France.
23  Grants are being offered to farmers who agree to turn over their land to woodland and forests.
24  The use of horses for ploughing still prevails among the poorer farmers.
25  Later this month, federal authorities are expected to announce plans to reduce their supplies of water to farmers by three-quarters.
26  The farmers distributed seeds over the field.
27  To ease financial difficulties, farmers could be compensated for their loss of subsidies.
28  Organic farmers should be encouraged with financial incentives.
29  A group of farmers were transplanted to the island by the government.
30  In addition there is one other institution which symbolizes the continuing dependency of agricultural workers upon local farmers - the tied cottage.