FARMERS in a Sentence

Learn FARMERS 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 FARMERS, such as:
1. Few small farmers owned horses.
2. Bully people, these Scandinavian farmers.
3. The farmers want too much for their wheat.
4. The farmers distributed seeds over the field.
5. In France, farmers are a powerful political constituency.
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Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
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 Meanings and Examples of FARMERS
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  His own social status was assured because the Tarletons owned a hundred negroes and, like all slaves of large planters, he looked down on small farmers whose slaves were few.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER I
2  Few small farmers owned horses.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER I
3  Many small farmers from far across the river were present and Crackers from the backwoods and a scattering of swamp folk.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XL
4  It was Saturday, the biggest day of the week for the store, for all the farmers came to town to shop that day, but she asked no questions.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER LIII
5  Dr. Kennicott launched into a heavy, "Oh, these Dutch farmers don't want sympathy."
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER II
6  The auto, the telephone, rural free delivery; they're bringing the farmers in closer touch with the town.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER III
7  Axel Egge's General Store, frequented by Scandinavian farmers.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IV
8  Trouble enough with these foreign farmers; if you don't watch these Swedes they turn socialist or populist or some fool thing on you in a minute.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IV
9  Bully people, these Scandinavian farmers.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER V
10  Oh, of course there's a lot of cranks among the farmers same as there are among any class.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER V
11  The farmers came into town in home-made sleighs, with bed-quilts and hay piled in the rough boxes.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VII
12  Especially all these tenant farmers that pretend they have so much trouble getting seed and machinery.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XI
13  She identified him with the virile land; she admired him as she saw with what respect the farmers obeyed him.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XII
14  The farmers want too much for their wheat.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XII
15  Across the thick ice was a veritable road, a short-cut for farmers.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVII
Example Sentence: (47 in 4 pages)
1  Environmentalists argue that the organization fails to address the needs of third world farmers.
2  It will affect farmers in Spain and to a lesser extent in France.
3  Grants are being offered to farmers who agree to turn over their land to woodland and forests.
4  The use of horses for ploughing still prevails among the poorer farmers.
5  Later this month, federal authorities are expected to announce plans to reduce their supplies of water to farmers by three-quarters.
6  The farmers distributed seeds over the field.
7  To ease financial difficulties, farmers could be compensated for their loss of subsidies.
8  Organic farmers should be encouraged with financial incentives.
9  A group of farmers were transplanted to the island by the government.
10  In addition there is one other institution which symbolizes the continuing dependency of agricultural workers upon local farmers - the tied cottage.
11  The farmers are getting the crops in now that they are ripe.
12  Poor farmers have little option but to try to grow food on these infertile soils.
13  It would pay farmers to plough up the scrub and plant wheat.
14  Rice farmers here still plant and harvest their crops by hand.
15  In France, farmers are a powerful political constituency.