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Recent Examples of field hand
Most of the enslaved people were field hands, but some were masons, house-hold servants and carpenters.
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Curtis Varnell The Timepiece,
arkansasonline.com,
13 Oct. 2024
While still a young girl, Tubman was taken away from her mother and forced to work as a maid, a nanny, a trapper, and a field hand.
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Casey Cep,
The New Yorker,
24 June 2024
Criminals prey on avocado orchard owners, field hands and drivers who transport avocados for export, among other targets.
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Patrick J. McDonnell,
Los Angeles Times,
22 June 2024
The field hands who work there will earn wages well above what’s standard for this rural area of Portugal.
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Sara Miller Llana,
The Christian Science Monitor,
22 Apr. 2024
See All Example Sentences for field hand
Curtis Varnell The Timepiece,
arkansasonline.com,
13 Oct. 2024
While still a young girl, Tubman was taken away from her mother and forced to work as a maid, a nanny, a trapper, and a field hand.
—
Casey Cep,
The New Yorker,
24 June 2024
Criminals prey on avocado orchard owners, field hands and drivers who transport avocados for export, among other targets.
—
Patrick J. McDonnell,
Los Angeles Times,
22 June 2024
The field hands who work there will earn wages well above what’s standard for this rural area of Portugal.
—
Sara Miller Llana,
The Christian Science Monitor,
22 Apr. 2024
See All Example Sentences for field hand
Recent Examples of Synonyms for field hand
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Kevin Costner is the Iowa farmer who hears strange voices and builds a ball field in his corn.
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Over the last three years, farmers in California and Arizona have agreed to leave hay fields dry part of the year in exchange for federal payments.
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The final scene shows Kaleb driving a combine harvester, and radioing Clarkson to tell him that his partner, Taya, has gone into labor with his third child.
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The harvester must have harvested oysters during the 2025-26 season, with proof in harvest reports.
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Amateur gardeners should definitely take advantage of this under-$30 gardening tool set and this stone planter from Creative Co-Op.
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There’s no better time to pretty up your porch than the dead of summer, and this planter, combined with the season’s ample sunshine, warm temps, and the shrub or flowers of your choosing.
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But the reaper kept knocking at Jamon’s door, and winking at his son.
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The combine/reaping machine cutting mechanism (1833) American inventor Obed Hussey patented one of the earliest practical mechanical reapers in 1833.
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The country is a top cultivator and exporter of greenhouse tomatoes (Mexico, China, Canada, the United States and Spain are the other power-green houses in this space, with an annual market of ~$10B growing to ~$16B by 2030).
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Tabar Gifford is a master gardener and partnership cultivator at American Meadows and High Country Gardens.
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Set in the Bangladeshi countryside during a pre-digital era, the film centers on Sadu, an impoverished tenant farmer who lives in isolation with his volatile wife.
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Jim Clayton, 91 The mobile home mogul grew up in a Tennessee log cabin; his family were tenant farmers on the property.
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Now some are calling for the government to buy farmland from willing growers and leave that land dry.
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This provides a clearer framework for businesses and growers, despite significant public interest in commercial cutting sales.
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The voice that had so startled me belonged to our farmhand, Heisuke, a loyal but rather slow-witted man.
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Case details Brewer, a farmhand, was convicted in the 1990 murder of an Amarillo flooring company owner.
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“Field hand.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/field%20hand. Accessed 3 Jul. 2026.
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