FARMING in a Sentence

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For FARMING, below is one of 282 sentences:
I know for a fact, that his race horses literally ran away with the prettiest bit of Kentucky farming land I ever laid eyes upon.

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 Meanings and Examples of FARMING
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
farming
 n.  the practice of cultivating the land or raising stock
 a.  relating to rural matters
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1  I know something about wheat from my farming, and I worked a couple of months in the flour mill at Curlew when I got sick of tailoring.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXX
2  One son, Fuchs said, was well-grown, and strong enough to work the land; but the father was old and frail and knew nothing about farming.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1. The Shimerdas: III
3  The land was growing rougher; I was told that we were approaching Squaw Creek, which cut up the west half of the Shimerdas' place and made the land of little value for farming.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1. The Shimerdas: III
4  When Pavel's health grew so bad, they decided to try farming.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1. The Shimerdas: VIII
5  That river was to be my compensation for the lost freedom of the farming country.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2. The Hired Girls: I
6  They told me they worked in Kansas City in the winter, and in summer they went out among the farming towns with their tent and taught dancing.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2. The Hired Girls: VIII
7  Her husband knew very little about farming and often grew discouraged.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 5. Cuzak's Boys: I
8  I know for a fact, that his race horses literally ran away with the prettiest bit of Kentucky farming land I ever laid eyes upon.
The Awakening By Kate Chopin
Context  Highlight   In XXII
9  After riding about an hour in this way, the whole party made a precipitate and tumultuous descent into a barn-yard belonging to a large farming establishment.
Uncle Tom's Cabin By Harriet Beecher Stowe
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VII
10  Levin knew that his elder brother took little interest in farming, and only put the question in deference to him, and so he only told him about the sale of his wheat and money matters.
Anna Karenina 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 1: Chapter 8
11  The farming of the land, as he was managing it, had become not merely unattractive but revolting to him, and he could take no further interest in it.
Anna Karenina 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 3: Chapter 24
12  Just now, since his disenchantment with farming, Levin was particularly glad to stay with Sviazhsky.
Anna Karenina 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 3: Chapter 26
13  The business of reorganizing the farming of his land absorbed him as completely as though there would never be anything else in his life.
Anna Karenina 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 3: Chapter 29
14  Busy as ever with his farming.
Anna Karenina 3 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 8: Chapter 6
15  We shall get on together splendidly, Arkasha; you shall help me in farming the estate, if only it isn't a bore to you.
Fathers and Children By Ivan Turgenev
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER III
Example Sentence: (72 in 5 pages)
16  The new law does not refer to land used for farming.
17  They live in a farming region in Canada.
18  The Ministry of Agriculture commissioned a study into low-input farming.
19  This brochure on farming was issued by the Department of Agriculture.
20  Our unique niche is to empower communities to support farming and conserve farmland.
21  People think in farming community you don't need a brain, only brawn.
22  Our ancestors started adding the greenhouse gas carbon dioxide principally by cutting down trees for farming; whereas methane production started with wet farming of rice.
23  The book tries to explain the basics of self-sufficient farming.
24  The truck turned off the main road along the gravelly track which led to the farm.
25  The farm and surrounding area was flooded.
26  The farm was in / under constant requisition as a base for the rescue team.
27  The farm lacks even basic equipment.
28  The road leading to the farm was little more than a dirt track.
29  Continue along the farm track for another hundred metres.
30  It was a bumpy ride along the farm track.