Examples of sharecropper in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web Yet the sharecropper’s eighth child always saw herself as a tourist in the realm of affluence, even with cash on hand. — The New Yorker, 18 Apr. 2022 Nate Cunningham was the seventh of 14 children born to an Arkansas sharecropper and attended a segregated grade school in Illinois. — David Woods, The Indianapolis Star, 18 Apr. 2022 Stories like Joe Pullum, a Black Mississippi sharecropper who killed four white men and wounded 15 others after a dispute with a local plantation owner over wages. — Darcel Rockett, chicagotribune.com, 16 Feb. 2022 For one particular scene about 17 minutes into the film, the camera lingered for the first time on Blige’s Florence Jackson—the wife of a sharecropper in Mississippi and mother to a daughter and three sons. — Nerisha Penrose, ELLE, 26 Jan. 2022 Minner, a sharecropper’s daughter, high school dropout and widow, was the only woman to serve as Delaware’s governor, holding office from 2001 to 2009. — From Usa Today Network And Wire Reports, USA TODAY, 13 Nov. 2021 Ruth Ann Minner, a sharecropper’s daughter who became the only woman to serve as Delaware’s governor, has died. — Randall Chase, baltimoresun.com, 8 Nov. 2021 Guy tell stories about the hard road from Louisiana sharecropper’s son to recording with giants, and still having to hold down a job to make ends meet. — Robert Abele, Los Angeles Times, 17 Mar. 2022 The son of a sharecropper, Bayless was born on Oct. 26, 1937, in Ruleville, Mississippi. — Mike Barnes, The Hollywood Reporter, 17 Feb. 2022 See More

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