Examples of work the land in a Sentence
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Citizens would work the land or engage in trade to meet their needs instead of creating massive farms, plantations, or industrial plants designed to generate immense profit.
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TIME, 6 May 2024
The new settlers established a wide network of cotton plantations that crisscrossed the state and brought in enslaved people to work the land and tend to their homes.
—Dana Shavin, Travel + Leisure, 24 Jan. 2024
The idea that Jews would work the land was central to a new Jewish identity different from the intellectual or businessman of the diaspora.
—Emily Bazelon, New York Times, 1 Feb. 2024
Players have to fix up an old house, work the land and rebuild the small town.
—Gieson Cacho, The Mercury News, 19 Jan. 2024
Foreign employees, especially from Thailand, now work the land.
—Joshua Berlinger, CNN, 11 Oct. 2023
John helps work the land of the Yellowstone Dutton Ranch with his uncle until he is killed by the family's enemy, Banner Creighton.
—Emily J. Shiffer, Peoplemag, 15 Sep. 2023
But the agricultural community fears that subsequent infrastructure planning for water, fencing, roads and other improvements will impede ranchers' ability to work the land.
—Debra Utacia Krol, The Arizona Republic, 11 Aug. 2023
There are people who live on ranches, work the land and compete in rodeos.
—Time, 10 Nov. 2022
TIME, 6 May 2024
The new settlers established a wide network of cotton plantations that crisscrossed the state and brought in enslaved people to work the land and tend to their homes.
—Dana Shavin, Travel + Leisure, 24 Jan. 2024
The idea that Jews would work the land was central to a new Jewish identity different from the intellectual or businessman of the diaspora.
—Emily Bazelon, New York Times, 1 Feb. 2024
Players have to fix up an old house, work the land and rebuild the small town.
—Gieson Cacho, The Mercury News, 19 Jan. 2024
Foreign employees, especially from Thailand, now work the land.
—Joshua Berlinger, CNN, 11 Oct. 2023
John helps work the land of the Yellowstone Dutton Ranch with his uncle until he is killed by the family's enemy, Banner Creighton.
—Emily J. Shiffer, Peoplemag, 15 Sep. 2023
But the agricultural community fears that subsequent infrastructure planning for water, fencing, roads and other improvements will impede ranchers' ability to work the land.
—Debra Utacia Krol, The Arizona Republic, 11 Aug. 2023
There are people who live on ranches, work the land and compete in rodeos.
—Time, 10 Nov. 2022
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