FARMER in a Sentence

Learn FARMER from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.
187 example sentences for FARMER, such as:
1. The farmer grows a lot of wheat.
2. Dad is a good farmer, but nothing else.
3. The farmer grows potatoes in this field.
4. The farmer cut at the snake with a stick.
5. He's a mighty pore farmer and he knows it.
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Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
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 Meanings and Examples of FARMER
farmer
 n.  an expert on cooking whose cookbook has undergone many editions (1857-1915)
 n.  United States civil rights leader who in 1942 founded the Congress of Racial Equality (born in 1920)
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 Mitchell
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 Mitchell
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 Mitchell
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 Mitchell
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 Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXI
6  He's a mighty pore farmer and he knows it.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXIX
7  Of course, he wasn't any good as a farmer.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
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 Mitchell
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)
1  The farmer called the vet out to treat a sick cow.
2  The farmer scattered the corn in the yard for the hens.
3  The farmer warned us off his land when we tried to camp there.
4  He started his career as a humble peanut farmer.
5  Food production, processing and marketing are different links in the chain from farmer to consumer.
6  Thieves carried off the farmer's sheep during the night.
7  The farmer has roped off the field where the new crop is growing to keep the animals out.
8  The farmer grows potatoes in this field.
9  The farmer grows a lot of wheat.
10  The price the meat is sold for bears no relation to the price the farmer receives.
11  He has a licence to shoot pheasants on the farmer's land.
12  The farmer shot two crows and strung them on the fence.
13  The farmer cut at the snake with a stick.
14  Other northern employers were shocked that ex-slaves refused to work in conditions that would not daunt a farmer in the North.
15  A farmer cannot neglect his diurnal tasks at any time; cows, for example, must be milked regularly.