PEASANT in a Sentence

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Everywhere temptation lies in wait for the peasant, and he needs to be cunning if he is to get through the world at all.

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 Meanings and Examples of PEASANT
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
peasant
 n.  one of a class of agricultural laborers; a country person
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1  "Yes, on the right," affirmed the peasant.
Dead Souls By Nikolai Gogol
Context  Highlight   In PART 1: CHAPTER II
2  Whippings are necessary sometimes, for a peasant often plays the fool, and discipline ought to be maintained.
Dead Souls By Nikolai Gogol
Context  Highlight   In PART 1: CHAPTER III
3  The peasant seemed nonplussed by the question.
Dead Souls By Nikolai Gogol
Context  Highlight   In PART 1: CHAPTER V
4  "No, barin," replied the peasant.
Dead Souls By Nikolai Gogol
Context  Highlight   In PART 1: CHAPTER V
5  Rather, you are a vehicle but shapen and fitted with the axe or chisel of some handy peasant of Yaroslav.
Dead Souls By Nikolai Gogol
Context  Highlight   In PART 1: CHAPTER XI
6  Lastly, a peasant of Tientietnikov's own village, when asked what his barin was like, returned no answer at all.
Dead Souls By Nikolai Gogol
Context  Highlight   In PART 2: CHAPTER I
7  That is to say, I am the owner of three hundred peasant souls, a badly administered estate, and a fool of a bailiff.
Dead Souls By Nikolai Gogol
Context  Highlight   In PART 2: CHAPTER I
8  Still more difficult did he find it to deal with the peasant women.
Dead Souls By Nikolai Gogol
Context  Highlight   In PART 2: CHAPTER I
9  "No, Constantine Thedorovitch," replied the peasant.
Dead Souls By Nikolai Gogol
Context  Highlight   In PART 2: CHAPTER III
10  Everywhere temptation lies in wait for the peasant, and he needs to be cunning if he is to get through the world at all.
Dead Souls By Nikolai Gogol
Context  Highlight   In PART 2: CHAPTER III
11  On the other hand, I demand of him thereafter more than is demanded of a peasant anywhere else.
Dead Souls By Nikolai Gogol
Context  Highlight   In PART 2: CHAPTER III
12  Whether a peasant be working for himself or for me, never do I let him waste time.
Dead Souls By Nikolai Gogol
Context  Highlight   In PART 2: CHAPTER III
13  Every peasant belonging to Constantine Thedorovitch is well off, and hasn't to work for nothing.
Dead Souls By Nikolai Gogol
Context  Highlight   In PART 2: CHAPTER III
14  In particular did he aver that, provided the Russian peasant could be induced to array himself in German costume, science would progress, trade increase, and the Golden Age dawn in Russia.
Dead Souls By Nikolai Gogol
Context  Highlight   In PART 2: CHAPTER III
15  The latter, on appearing, was seen to have the air, half of a peasant, half of an official.
Dead Souls By Nikolai Gogol
Context  Highlight   In PART 2: CHAPTER III
Example Sentence:
1  There's no essential difference between a metropolitan and a peasant.
2  He is the happiest,be he King or peasant, who finds peace in his home.
3  The president was disguised as a peasant.
4  The proposed treaty would give credit to peasant farmers who developed the crops in the first place.
5  In Chinese history peasants rebelled several times.
6  The peasants ploughed the weeds in the field back to enrich the soil.
7  Tons of internationally donated food was distributed to the starving peasants.
8  The owner is making huge profits at the expense of downtrodden peasants.
9  We should always perform before the workers, peasants and soldiers.
10  After the harvest, the peasants began to prepare the soil for seed.
11  Well-to-do people praise Prince Muhammad for ridding Awamiyah of a slum infested by gun-toting criminals, which appealed to landless peasants in Eastern Province.