How to Use peasant in a Sentence

peasant

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  • They treated us like a bunch of peasants.
  • Here the rain is the peasant's god and the driver's curse.
    — Cnt Editors, Condé Nast Traveler, 17 Nov. 2022
  • The peasant girl who brought it to him enriched the soup with a raw egg.
    — Bill St. John, The Denver Post, 14 Apr. 2020
  • Stazhadze had grown up a peasant, sent to work in a prince’s kitchens as a boy.
    — Washington Post, 28 Oct. 2021
  • Rigu grew up the son of peasants in a maize farm north of Nairobi.
    — Marcello Rossi, Smithsonian, 12 Feb. 2018
  • Those are the words of a king who is being challenged by a peasant.
    — Philip Bump, Washington Post, 2 June 2017
  • The effect is not of a bull in a china shop, or of peasants storming the Bastille.
    — Sonia Saraiya, HWD, 9 May 2018
  • The peasant knows less and less when to sow [and] less and less land becomes available.
    — Jacqueline Charles, miamiherald, 9 Sep. 2017
  • Rumor has it that, in medieval times, peasants downed it to ward off the plague.
    — Elise Taylor, Vogue, 11 June 2018
  • The parts of the country near the United States have prospered while peasants in the south still toil outdoors in the sun.
    — The Economist, 23 June 2018
  • He had been born the son of a Swiss peasant farmer and never forgot the pains of his origins.
    — The Economist, 12 Apr. 2018
  • In gratitude, Death grants the peasant the ability to cure the sick.
    — John Hopewell, Variety, 1 Nov. 2021
  • In the crowd jostling around them, the women wore peasant skirts and striped sailors’ tops, and none of the men, apart from these two, were wearing ties.
    — Tessa Hadley, The New Yorker, 23 June 2024
  • Here’s the twist: this peasant dish won’t win a beauty contest.
    — Rita Nader Heikenfeld, The Enquirer, 11 Nov. 2022
  • In the rougher south they were divinely seized peasants.
    — Cynthia Ozick, Harper’s Magazine , 10 Apr. 2023
  • So step away from the stove, turn off the oven, and channel your inner Medieval peasant.
    — Sharon Greenthal, Better Homes & Gardens, 28 June 2023
  • His mother, who ran the store, raised two kids in America but was, in her heart, a peasant from the shtetl.
    — Charles McGrath, New York Times, 5 Mar. 2020
  • Set in the Chilean countryside, the film tells the story of a peasant who asks the devil to grant him a wish beneath a full moon.
    — Christopher Vourlias, Variety, 26 Jan. 2022
  • For hundreds of years throughout the Middle Ages, peasants ploughed and leveled the field.
    — Michael Price, Science | AAAS, 16 Aug. 2017
  • From the mightiest Pharaoh to the lowliest peasant, who doesn’t enjoy a good sit?
    — Andrew J. Hawkins, The Verge, 21 Oct. 2018
  • Cherry clafoutis is a simple peasant dessert from the Limousin region in France.
    — Washington Post, 7 July 2021
  • The pleated, puffy sleeves come from the shirts of Russian peasants from the late 19th and early 20th century.
    — Liana Satenstein, Vogue, 11 June 2018
  • The film, set in Congo, follows a young peasant who dreams of a better future for his loved ones.
    — Rebecca Ford, The Hollywood Reporter, 25 May 2017
  • Just make sure those peasants the Joneses take their shoes off before walking up to your door.
    — Candace Braun Davison, House Beautiful, 21 May 2018
  • The show is about Ti Moune, a fearless peasant girl searching for her place in the world, guided by island gods.
    — San Diego Union-Tribune, 23 June 2021
  • Over the history of our species most of us lived much like a peasant in India or Bangladesh does today.
    — Michael Hicks, Indianapolis Star, 24 June 2018
  • The film turns on a peasant in the Chilean countryside who makes a deal with the devil to disastrous effects.
    — Christopher Vourlias, Variety, 25 Jan. 2022
  • If the family was among the winners of the era, the losers included the peasants displaced to make way for grazing land.
    — Allan Massie, wsj.com, 14 Apr. 2023
  • While in Russia, Imbrie witnessed a peasant shot dead by a guard over a miniscule amount of food—a portent of the Great Famine that would soon claim millions of lives.
    — Francine Uenuma, Smithsonian Magazine, 5 Sep. 2024
  • But that mission wasn’t easy: Olson had to disguise himself as a Russian peasant, taking a public bus out to the countryside on a route often patrolled by militia.
    — Cnbc.com Staff, CNBC, 13 Sep. 2024

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