FARMERS in a Sentence

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For FARMERS, below is one of 187 sentences:
The farmers would be allowed to stay and carry on with crops already planted, but they would have to coexist with new settlers.

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 Meanings and Examples of FARMERS
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
farmer
 n.  a person who cultivates land or crops or raises animals
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 Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER I
2  Few small farmers owned horses.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
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 Mitche
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 Mitche
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)
16  The farmers were racing against the rainy season, trying to gather in the summer crops.
17  The proposed treaty would give credit to peasant farmers who developed the crops in the first place.
18  Many farmers' fields are irrigated by water brought from a river or lake through bamboo pipes.
19  Critics argue they encourage Europe's farmers to dump produce on world markets.
20  The most significant advantages of genetically modified crops for the developing world are that farmers would have higher yields: they would be able to produce food using fewer inputs: less pesticide, less fertilizer.
21  It uses its market power to squeeze the incomes of farmers and other suppliers.
22  Some farmers have said the system is unfair because many families are ineligible for help if a wife or son has taken up work in a nearby town.
23  The farmers were able to withstand the dry season by using rainwater they had stored in an underground cistern.
24  The farmers would be allowed to stay and carry on with crops already planted, but they would have to coexist with new settlers.
25  The pesticide is chemicals which farmers put on their crops to kill harmful insects.
26  American farmers, rancher, and agricultural managers direct the activities of one of the world's largest and most productive agricultural sectors.
27  Skies once crowded with storks and herons were empty; drought had pushed farmers to abandon their crops, and dust storms, once rare, choked the air.
28  The farmer called the vet out to treat a sick cow.
29  The farmer scattered the corn in the yard for the hens.
30  The farmer warned us off his land when we tried to camp there.