How to Use farmer in a Sentence

farmer

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  • My uncle has been a farmer for 60 years.
  • In the Amazon, farmers want to steal the land from the natives.
    — Rafa Sales Ross, Variety, 27 Jan. 2024
  • Alaska could be a great home for the small backyard farmer.
    — John Schandelmeier, Anchorage Daily News, 22 Apr. 2023
  • After the move, Pearl was allegedly sent to a farmer across the street.
    — Rebecca Aizin, Peoplemag, 10 Jan. 2023
  • At one point in the video, a baby in a stroller even gives salmon farmers the finger.
    — Dac Collins, Outdoor Life, 27 June 2024
  • The farmer then falls to the ground and appears to age rapidly before dying.
    — Lauren Huff, EW.com, 1 Mar. 2023
  • Whether you're headed for the farmer's market, the beach, or the grocery store, this bag is the gift that keeps on giving.
    — Dobrina Zhekova, Travel + Leisure, 9 Jan. 2024
  • Your goal: Do a farmer’s carry with half your bodyweight in each hand for one minute.
    — Ben Court, Men's Health, 10 Mar. 2023
  • Tenant farmers raised grain crops to pay the landlords’ rent.
    — Richard Grant, Smithsonian Magazine, 7 Sep. 2023
  • While some farmers like Cameron are ready to flood their fields now, many others aren't.
    — Amy Taxin, ajc, 28 Mar. 2023
  • In stores or at farmer’s markets, look for asparagus that is not too dried out at the cut ends.
    — Katie Workman, San Diego Union-Tribune, 3 Apr. 2024
  • Berry grew up in the Bayou Meto community near DeWitt and was the son of a farmer.
    — Tony Holt, Arkansas Online, 25 June 2023
  • Go to your local farmer's market to learn how locals buy and sell too.
    — Angela Belt, House Beautiful, 22 Apr. 2023
  • Who did the other 'Farmer Wants a Wife' Season 2 farmers pick?
    — Hannah Kirby, Journal Sentinel, 10 May 2024
  • That group includes some farmers and ranchers near the border of the landscape where the bears will make a new home.
    — Evan Bush, NBC News, 28 Apr. 2024
  • Yet farmers might dry out their peatland or harvest the peat.
    — Ashoka, Forbes, 11 Dec. 2023
  • Believe it or not, the trendiest way to wear head-to-toe denim in 2013 was with a pair of farmer chic overalls.
    — Alexis Bennett, Vogue, 26 Jan. 2023
  • Set in 1630 New England, this horror film follows the lives of a farmer, his wife, and their children.
    — Madison Douglas, Seventeen, 2 Feb. 2023
  • And the farmer wants to be compensated ... for those good practices.
    — Kristen Jordan Shamus, Detroit Free Press, 28 June 2024
  • All of the peppers used in the sauce were grown by Black farmers and urban gardeners.
    — Courtland Milloy, Washington Post, 3 Oct. 2023
  • On top of that, farmers had to deal with inflated feed and fuel costs.
    — Elisabeth Buchwald, CNN, 13 Sep. 2023
  • The farmers gave up their animals to be adopted as pets.
    — John Yoon, New York Times, 9 Jan. 2024
  • The program does benefit farmers to the tune of $1.4 billion to $2.7 billion per year, the GAO found.
    — Laurent Belsie, The Christian Science Monitor, 18 Dec. 2023
  • Desert farmers share their best tips on how to grow food in hot, dry conditions.
    — Jaweed Kaleem, Los Angeles Times, 2 May 2024
  • Enter from the farmer’s porch, and the living room is right of the entryway, while the dining room at left has bay windows.
    — Jon Gorey, BostonGlobe.com, 5 May 2023
  • Any good farmer waters his soil and fertilizes his crops.
    — Adam Hurly, Robb Report, 2 Nov. 2023
  • Think: that time one of the guest chefs brought a saffron from Italy and Secchi decided to mix it with beets from the Union Square farmer’s market.
    — Kristen Bateman, Vogue, 13 Aug. 2024
  • The victim’s car was found the next day when local farmers were trimming the bushes, Taylor said.
    — Sean Neumann, Peoplemag, 5 Sep. 2023
  • Trump-era tariff fights during the US-China trade war led to farmers losing billions of dollars in exports, which the federal government had to make up for with subsidies.
    — Vox Staff, Vox, 24 Oct. 2024
  • If walking through the Sturgeon Bay farmers’ market and chatting politics is any indication, neither party can harbor such hope.
    — Emily Witt, The New Yorker, 23 Oct. 2024

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