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Examples of farmer in a Sentence
My uncle has been a farmer for 60 years.
a young farmer whose family has been growing wheat for many generations
Recent Examples of farmer from the Web
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Subsistence farmers from Angola to Kenya use slash-and-burn techniques to fertilise fields with ash and to make charcoal, which nearly 1bn Africans use to cook.
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But no alternative livelihoods were on offer and many cocoa farmers returned afterwards.
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In the dark fields, Amish farmers hitched their horses to black buggies and left quietly.
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Five decades ago, before farmers markets were en vogue and growing produce was a fetishized practice, many Sonoma County farmers struggled to make ends meet.
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But these farmers are in danger of losing their livelihood to consolidation.
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For now, both farmers are anxious to get crops in the ground.
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Amid the dryness, farmers placed 1.82 million cattle in feedlots in February, up 7.3 percent from the prior year, according to a U.S. Department of Agriculture report released March 23.
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Afghanistan’s government has launched eradication programs and the U.S. military has supported efforts to try and convince poppy farmers to switch to legal crops.
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First Known Use of farmer
14th century
farmer Synonyms
Synonyms
agriculturist (or agriculturalist), agronomist, cultivator, grower, planter, tiller;
Antonyms
Related Words
farmhand, field hand, gleaner, harvester, plowman, reaper;
gentleman farmer, sharecropper, subsistence farmer, tenant farmer, yeoman;
homesteader, nester [West];
Farmer
Definition of Farmer
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