How to Use farmworker in a Sentence

farmworker

noun
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  • The deadly crash is the latest to claim the lives of farmworkers in the U.S.
    — Nicole Fallert, USA TODAY, 15 May 2024
  • But the farmworker hadn’t heard of the bird flu, and the clinician didn’t mention it or test for the virus.
    — Amy Maxmen, CNN, 2 Aug. 2024
  • The farmworker saw blood on the ground and his dogs discovered the slain toddlers.
    — Steve Helling, PEOPLE.com, 11 Aug. 2021
  • Even if a farmworker dies on the job, OSHA cannot inspect or fine the farm.
    — Errol Schweizer, Forbes, 16 June 2021
  • The Teamsters are cozy with the growers who employ the farmworkers.
    — Jo Thomas, Detroit Free Press, 14 Jan. 2024
  • At harvest time, farmworkers slice open the pods to drain a milky white sap that is dried into a resin.
    — Craig Whitlock, Anchorage Daily News, 9 Dec. 2019
  • The state does not require testing of cows or farmworkers.
    — Emily Anthes, New York Times, 9 May 2024
  • Maria Joel replaced her husband as the leader of the farmworkers union and took up the mantle of his crusade.
    — Richard Schiffman, The Christian Science Monitor, 8 Mar. 2023
  • The Times highlighted one of the plaintiffs, farmworker Richard Strong.
    — Malaika Jabali, Essence, 12 Nov. 2021
  • With the return to the school year, many farmworker parents grapple with the same dilemma that confronted them in the spring.
    — Washington Post, 15 Oct. 2020
  • These are the communities of farmworkers that are putting food on the table.
    — Tribune News Service, The Mercury News, 16 Apr. 2024
  • In California, the state with the most Latinos, 92% of them are farmworkers.
    — Amaris Alanis Ribeiro, Hartford Courant, 3 July 2024
  • Her viewpoint was shaped in her early years as a farmworker.
    — Liliana Michelena, New York Times, 11 Mar. 2023
  • In wine country, farmworkers who toil in the vineyards were among those displaced.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 29 Oct. 2019
  • Her dad, a farmworker, had gotten injured and couldn’t work.
    — Lautaro Grinspan, ajc, 6 July 2023
  • To date three people — all farmworkers — have contracted the virus from cows.
    — Helen Branswell, STAT, 17 June 2024
  • Ana Ruano, a farmworker in the Yuma area, lives with her 80-year-old father and 18-year-old daughter.
    — Erin Stone, The Arizona Republic, 19 Jan. 2021
  • He is joined by a few other farmworkers who converge on the gas station to cool off from the sweltering sun.
    — Jake Frederico, The Arizona Republic, 4 Sep. 2023
  • Alexander’s cousin, former Rep. Baxter Troutman, helped pass the farmworker seat belt bill in the House.
    — Romy Ellenbogen, Miami Herald, 29 May 2024
  • His uncle had been a bracero who worked the fields, and as a child, Chacon recalls seeing farmworkers being bused to work.
    — Emily Alvarenga, San Diego Union-Tribune, 4 July 2023
  • Visitors to the sites would bear witness to important historic events in Chávez’s life, as well as in the lives of farmworkers.
    — Dakota Kim, Los Angeles Times, 8 June 2023
  • Born in Bradley, Calif., Martínez is the daughter of farmworker and immigrant parents.
    — Nadia Cantú, AZCentral.com, 7 Nov. 2021
  • As a young woman in high school and college, Amelia engaged in pickets and marches to voice the struggles farmworkers faced.
    — L. Stephen Velasquez, Smithsonian, 23 Oct. 2019
  • In villages outside the city, farmworkers still venture into the rice, wheat and fodder fields, but try to rest during the hottest part of the day, from noon until about 3 p.m.
    — Annie Gowen, Niko Kommenda and Saiyna Bashir, Anchorage Daily News, 5 Sep. 2023
  • In a study in Washington state, farmworkers were found to fall off ladders more often in June and July, among the hottest and most humid months.
    — Amy Maxmen, CBS News, 30 Aug. 2023
  • Ramirez said 60% to 70% of Camarena’s patients are on Medi-Cal, many of them farmworkers.
    — Kff Health News, Orange County Register, 21 June 2024
  • And the overall look came from boxing, farmworker unionizing and luchador posters.
    — New York Times, 14 May 2021
  • Rocha hopes her photos bring awareness to the farmworker community and the impact of their work.
    — Gabriela Miranda, USA TODAY, 18 June 2021
  • All of the cases in California have arisen in dairy farmworkers, the CDC said, as is the case with the majority of infections across the country.
    — Nina Turner, Newsweek, 30 Oct. 2024
  • Two in three farmworkers are immigrants, according to the USDA, and 41% hold no work authorization.
    — Andrea Castillo, Los Angeles Times, 31 Oct. 2024

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