How to Use tenant farmer in a Sentence

tenant farmer

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  • His son farmed the land for many years, then a tenant farmer did.
    — WSJ, 24 Oct. 2021
  • By the war, half of Japan’s arable land was worked by tenant farmers, and rent was never less than half the crop.
    — The Economist, 12 Oct. 2017
  • That leaves poor tenant farmers mired in debt, with no means to invest.
    — The Economist, 12 Oct. 2017
  • Poor white tenant farmers battle fierce odds to make a living on a Texas plot.
    — Los Angeles Times, 30 Aug. 2019
  • The trust says scones are its best selling dish, with more than 3 million sold each year and many of the ingredients sourced from their tenant farmers.
    — Adela Suliman, Washington Post, 1 Mar. 2023
  • When the Army Corps approached them, Tomas had long ceased working the land himself, instead renting it out to tenant farmers.
    — T. Christian Miller, Propublica, Kiah Collier and Julian Aguilar, star-telegram, 14 Dec. 2017
  • New York passed the first anti-mask law in 1845 in response to a tenant farmer rebellion that turned violent.
    — Jessie Balmert, The Enquirer, 15 May 2024
  • King also takes exception to the notion that the blues were named after the sadness of tenant farmers and sharecroppers in the Delta.
    — Kara Martinez Bachman, NOLA.com, 18 Oct. 2017
  • The hall featured a wooden cotton planter used by a South Carolina tenant farmer.
    — New York Times, 25 Nov. 2021
  • Buyers offered rock-bottom prices for cotton, and tenant farmers had no choice but to sell, and mortgage the next year’s crop, to keep going.
    — Trevor Paulhus, Smithsonian, 19 Sep. 2019
  • That was a barrier for tenant farmers who earned an average of less than $100 a year, Flynt wrote.
    — Mike Cason | McAson@al.com, al, 4 Dec. 2019
  • Its last full renovation was during the reign of William and Mary, and when his stepmother bought it from a tenant farmer, there was no central heating.
    — New York Times, 16 Mar. 2021
  • The Pipers still farm beets and wheat on the land, but modern machinery long ago made obsolete the tenant farmers who once occupied dozens of cottages there.
    — Nancy Hass Mikael Olsson, New York Times, 11 Aug. 2023
  • In the rural south, sharecroppers and tenant farmers, who lived in appalling conditions, struggled for fair treatment and wages.
    — Larry Bleiberg, USA TODAY, 25 Feb. 2020
  • One reason that socialism thrived there was the appalling exploitation of these tenant farmers.
    — Trevor Paulhus, Smithsonian, 19 Sep. 2019
  • Forced to sell his family farm after the death of his father, Brandt became a tenant farmer tasked with the challenge of growing crops on a hilly stretch of farmland where the soil was sloped and vulnerable to erosion.
    — Daniel Wu, Washington Post, 30 Apr. 2023
  • Kenzo’s family are united in their objection to his choice of bride: Katsuko may have her own fortune and career, but as the daughter of a tenant farmer, her lineage is wrong.
    — The Economist, 18 Dec. 2019
  • Biden's Irish ancestors were a diverse bunch: engineers and surveyors, overseers in charge of building roads, a coast guard, a stone mason and tenant farmers.
    — Joey Garrison, USA TODAY, 8 Apr. 2023
  • Biden's Irish ancestors were a diverse bunch: engineers and surveyors, overseers in charge of building roads, a coast guard member, a stone mason and tenant farmers.
    — Ramon Padilla, USA TODAY, 12 Apr. 2023
  • That land was worked productively by tenant farmers, who produced value through their labor.
    — Tim O'Reilly, Quartz, 17 July 2019
  • By 1845, much of the population—mainly poor people and tenant farmers—depended on a potato-heavy diet.
    — Sena Christian, Newsweek, 19 Nov. 2015
  • William Parker, a 30-year-old tenant farmer born in Maryland, had escaped slavery just a few years prior, and had found refuge, if not full acceptance, in this quiet corner of Pennsylvania.
    — James Delle, Smithsonian Magazine, 17 Jan. 2020
  • The property, with a likely array of tenant farmers, provided income for the officer, who could live there during his service.
    — J.s. Marcus, WSJ, 18 Oct. 2017
  • There, an African American tenant farmer named William Parker led a skirmish that became a crucial flareup in the nation’s long-smoldering conflict over slavery.
    — James Delle, Smithsonian Magazine, 17 Jan. 2020
  • Mahmad Ewaz, 28, a former tenant farmer and father of four who fled fighting in Helmand province two years ago, listened to his 1-year-old daughter coughing and contemplated a single log resting in the corner.
    — Washington Post, 7 Jan. 2022
  • The percentage of sharecroppers and tenant farmers tripled, until nearly one family in three was reduced to peonage, working for someone else—working just to live.
    — Kevin Baker, Harper's magazine, 10 May 2019
  • Another spelled out the near-impossibility for a tenant farmer of turning a profit under the sharecropping system.
    — Susannah Gardiner, Smithsonian Magazine, 1 Feb. 2023
  • Even after slavery’s end, the region continued its reliance on oppressed labor – sharecroppers, tenant farmers, and people who had been convicted of crimes.
    — Patrik Jonsson, The Christian Science Monitor, 14 May 2024
  • The rebels, inspired by Chinese revolutionary leader Mao Zedong, have been fighting the Indian government for more than four decades, demanding land and jobs for tenant farmers, the poor and indigenous communities.
    — Ashok Sharma, The Seattle Times, 28 Aug. 2018

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