How to Use farm in a Sentence

farm

1 of 2 noun

• She grew up on a dairy farm.
• Running a farm is hard work.
• The event was held on a farm in a white aluminum barn flanked by corn fields.
  — cleveland, 7 Aug. 2023
• But these days most of the mom of two’s time is spent on a farm in upstate New York.
  — Danielle Sinay, Glamour, 1 Sep. 2023
• Last week, all four farmers each brought a new dater back to their farms.
  — Hannah Kirby, Journal Sentinel, 4 Apr. 2024
• The siblings grew up on Cross E Ranch, which used to be a cattle farm.
  — Sofia Jeremias, The Salt Lake Tribune, 13 Sep. 2023
• For her, the dome is a sign of a healthy, biodynamic farm.
  — Arielle Gordon Alexandra Genova, New York Times, 19 Dec. 2023
• The researchers used data from the same countries as the urban farms.
  — John Timmer, Ars Technica, 23 Jan. 2024
• So why in the world is there a cheese cabin on a sheep farm in Wisconsin?
  — Stefanie Waldek, Travel + Leisure, 10 Oct. 2023
• The flowing creek beside the farm has never run dry in the decades that Cirone has been farming.
  — Ian James, Los Angeles Times, 29 Nov. 2023
• In the late nineties, Johnson bought a horse farm in Middleburg.
  — Hannah Goldfield, The New Yorker, 2 Oct. 2023
• The 49-acre farm supplies the restaurant with wheat, olives, vegetables, and herbs.
  — Travel + Leisure Editors, Travel + Leisure, 24 June 2023
• By then, he’d already been buried in a pauper’s grave on the grounds of the Hinds County penal farm.
  — Jon Schuppe, NBC News, 29 Nov. 2023
• At the start of the season, Baseball America stood alone in pegging the Red Sox as one of the top 10 farm systems in the game.
  — Alex Speier, BostonGlobe.com, 18 Aug. 2023
• At the gathering, Ms. Keller spoke about the farm and her desire for healing there.
  — Melanie Stetson Freeman, The Christian Science Monitor, 18 Jan. 2024
• North Texas weather is a haunted house full of crane flies, and the cost of entry to build even the micro-est of farms is steep.
  — Nick Rallo, Dallas News, 12 June 2023
• With that last change, the farm would be able to grow scallops, but not oysters, according to staff at CRMC.
  — Brian Amaral, BostonGlobe.com, 13 June 2023
• Most of the migrants fled in different directions on the farm.
  — Charles Rabin, Miami Herald, 5 Feb. 2024
• Thinking of what the farm did have, though, is far more beneficial.
  — Patricia English Garner, Southern Living, 12 Oct. 2023
• Some farms have looked to grass-roots sources for financial support.
  — Maliya Ellis, BostonGlobe.com, 15 July 2023
• The seven-course tasting menus draw customers far and wide, and about 80 percent of what’s plated is pulled from the on-site farm.
  — Siobhan Reid, Vogue, 21 Dec. 2023
• As children, Margaret and Phil lived next door to each other on a farm in Bancroft, Iowa.
  — Aria Bendix, NBC News, 4 Nov. 2023
• Natusch points out that the native snakes could still help in creating python farms.
  — Tribune News Service, The Mercury News, 12 Apr. 2024
• In that context, Stewart was hopping on a snowplow at 4 a.m. to clear the snowfall from her New York farm.
  — Scottie Andrew, CNN, 3 Feb. 2024
• The farm isn’t run like a typical farm, instead the team has full control over what’s grown each season.
  — oregonlive, 17 July 2023
• This is thanks to a walker who has the right to roam across private property but who decided to leave the farm gate open.
  — Maureen MacKey, Fox News, 10 Mar. 2024
• While the farm's fresh produce is good, the handmade peach ice cream from the onsite market is something to behold.
  — Nicole Letts, Southern Living, 22 Jan. 2024
• Just planting my own food on my vegan farm with kids...
  — Jacqueline Tempera, Women's Health, 16 June 2023
• The Haynie family hopes to one day sell their rice and other farm products directly in stores.
  — Chandelis Duster, CNN, 30 Sep. 2023
• Every old farm field, railroad right of way, and shopping center detention basin is chock full of the stinky trees.
  — Paul Cappiello, The Courier-Journal, 22 Mar. 2024

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farm

2 of 2 verb

• My uncle has been farming on this land for 60 years.
• My uncle has been farming this land for 60 years.
• And by the 1960s the people didn’t have enough land to farm or could not find enough to eat.
  — Patrick Frater, Variety, 17 Feb. 2024
• No one wears a hat like that to work cattle, or to farm a field.
  — Mike Knox, Harper’s Magazine , 4 Jan. 2022
• Soon a cousin called, saying the family farm down the road from the Millers was hit.
  — Washington Post, 13 Dec. 2021
• The damage will likely mean the loss of more than a half acre of land that can no longer be farmed, Schirmer said.
  — Elena Kadvany, San Francisco Chronicle, 18 Mar. 2023
• King is in his 50s and has been farming in Kouts with his father his whole life.
  — Shelley Jones, Chicago Tribune, 18 June 2023
• Kangaroos are shot in the wild, not farmed, in Australia.
  — Frances Vinall, Washington Post, 15 Mar. 2023
• Atsma took advantage of a break in the fighting to farm his land.
  — Sarah Ferguson, Forbes, 16 June 2022
• The tribe has farmed in the Santa Cruz Valley for millennia.
  — The Arizona Republic, 27 Feb. 2024
• Over the years, the land where the McAfees once farmed proved equally fertile for industry and commerce.
  — Jennifer Brett, ajc, 28 Apr. 2023
• For the Knoches, the desire to farm the sun on their land is a simple matter of property rights.
  — USA TODAY, 4 Feb. 2024
• Forced to pay the tax and grow more grapes and olive trees, the peasants had to farm the rocky, barren terrains surrounding the city.
  — Lina Zeldovich, Smithsonian Magazine, 25 Jan. 2022
• Louis Oosthuizen, the second highest ranked golfer here, is 39 years old and spoke of a desire to play less and farm more.
  — Andrew Beaton, WSJ, 7 June 2022
• And that only a few people farmed on the land, and were compensated.
  — Emmanuel Akinwotu, NPR, 25 Feb. 2024
• With fewer wild fish to catch in the open sea, a new industry is emerging to farm them there instead.
  — Quartz, 10 Nov. 2022
• Cattle and soybeans are farmed on the surrounding land, and catfish are raised in the nearby lakes.
  — Meridith Edwards, CNN, 6 Aug. 2023
• Tor and Bari, the couple who farm pot in the redwood forest and host the gathering in the story, are fictional.
  — Deborah Treisman, The New Yorker, 27 Dec. 2021
• The act offered 160 acres of federal land to any citizen who would build a home on it and farm it for at least five years.
  — Fergus M. Bordewich, WSJ, 23 Aug. 2023
• One way was to expand the amount of land farmed organically.
  — Karen Kaplan, Los Angeles Times, 21 Mar. 2024
• Groszhans, from Ashley, North Dakota, has ancestors from Ukraine and went there to farm in 2017.
  — CBS News, 21 Oct. 2022
• But this year, as before, Mr. Elmore isn’t farming some fields.
  — Sarah Matusek, The Christian Science Monitor, 12 Apr. 2023
• Many local families also signed pledges agreeing to not farm or hunt in the park.
  — Gabe Allen, Discover Magazine, 20 Nov. 2021
• As the idea of eating insects has taken off, so too has the industry around farming them.
  — Philip Lymbery, Time, 27 July 2023
• The vineyards are farmed biodynamically and the care shows in the depth of flavor apparent in the wine.
  — Dave McIntyre, Washington Post, 20 Apr. 2023
• To them, much of the Bruces’ story mirrored their own history with the land their family had used to farm cotton and corn.
  — Audra D. S. Burch, New York Times, 8 June 2023
• Among the Wampanoag, rights to use the same plot of land could overlap, so that one family might hold the right to fish in a stream and another might hold the right to farm the banks of that stream.
  — Eula Biss, The New Yorker, 8 June 2022
• Hemp is farmed for CBD oil, which is believed to have health benefits, and has been raised in Alabama for about years.
  — Mike Cason | [e-mail], al, 19 Apr. 2023
• Aaron Neville, one of the greatest and most distinctive pop singers of the 20th century, is mostly farming these days.
  — Alan Paul, WSJ, 29 Dec. 2023
• In Europe, the near shore is crowded, and farming the ocean further offshore can be daunting, with high winds and waves.
  — Juliet Eilperin, Anchorage Daily News, 31 July 2023

Last Updated: 3 May 2024