PEASANTRY in a Sentence

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1. For him to say he knew the peasantry would have been the same as to say he knew men.
2. He never changed his opinion of the peasantry and his sympathetic attitude towards them.
3. Americans, while occasionally willing to be serfs, have always been obstinate about being peasantry.
4. But Appius could not follow the plan of gaining over the peasantry, since in Rome they and the people were one.
5. The years pass and the same figure grown older and more sedate is taking command of an army of peasantry at war with their King.

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 Meanings and Examples of PEASANTRY
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
peasantry
 n.  the class of peasants
Classic Sentence:
1  Americans, while occasionally willing to be serfs, have always been obstinate about being peasantry.
The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 5
2  For him to say he knew the peasantry would have been the same as to say he knew men.
Anna Karenina 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 3: Chapter 1
3  He never changed his opinion of the peasantry and his sympathetic attitude towards them.
Anna Karenina 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 3: Chapter 1
4  But Appius could not follow the plan of gaining over the peasantry, since in Rome they and the people were one.
Discourses on the First Decade of Titus Livius By Niccolo Machiavelli
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XL.
5  On the other hand, if the rent was too high, or if the land deteriorated, the result was to discourage and check the efforts of the black peasantry.
The Souls of Black Folk By W. E. B. Du Bois
Context  Highlight   In VIII
6  Nay, even the wooden huts of the peasantry were wonderful in the solidity of their construction, and not a clay wall or a carved pattern or other device was to be seen.
Dead Souls By Nikolai Gogol
Context  Highlight   In PART 1: CHAPTER V
7  Nor is this peculiar to Sambo; it has in history been just as true of John and Hans, of Jacques and Pat, of all ground-down peasantries.
The Souls of Black Folk By W. E. B. Du Bois
Context  Highlight   In VIII
Example Sentence:
1  The years pass and the same figure grown older and more sedate is taking command of an army of peasantry at war with their King.