6 sentences with 'farmer'
Example sentences and phrases with the word farmer and other words derived from it.
• « A farmer in his youth, Ford quickly showed an interest in machinery, and was only interested in jobs that could be done by machines. »
• « A serf is a farmer who is legally bound to the land on which he works - they cannot leave the land to seek better work elsewhere, living in a state very close to slavery. »
• « I wave to the farmer who overtakes me in his truck, and my gesture extends to the grasslands swaying at the side of the road, to the row of trees whose branches wave in the wind, to the billowing white clouds. I wave, and my wave spreads to the horizon. And so, in the countryside, I am an inveterate greeter. »
• « What is true for the hunter on the glacial pampas is true for the Indian farmer, who has been brought out of darkness by some new atomic power station, and out of hunger by some new variety of rice resistant to local pests. The nuclear and genetic engineers responsible for the power plant and the rice work with computers. »
• « To him, Hamilton's programme seemed to foster economic inequalities and work against the ordinary American farmer. »
• « If a craftsman wanted to take the afternoon off, he could. If a farmer wanted to rebuild his fence on Thursday instead of Wednesday, he could do so. »