How to Use agrarian in a Sentence

agrarian

adjective

• To the city folk who sojourn there, West Marin is an agrarian idyll.
  — Leilani Marie Labong, SFChronicle.com, 21 May 2020
• But in the agrarian villages across the water, life still moves to a timeless rhythm.
  — Jason Motlagh, Marie Claire, 18 Jan. 2018
• Over the last four decades, South Korea has moved from a poor, largely agrarian society to one of the world’s largest economies.
  — Kelly Kasulis, Time, 26 Apr. 2018
• Garlands of oranges and their leaves ran down the center of feast tables, a homage to the culture’s agrarian roots.
  — Deborah Reid, Washington Post, 17 May 2023
• As a tribute to beer’s agrarian roots, BB set up shop on a 12-acre lot that once grew carnations.
  — Stephanie Granada, Sunset, 22 Jan. 2018
• The social bonds of an agrarian society were broken, and the result was the highest suicide rate in the G20.
  — Peter Opaskar, Ars Technica, 16 Feb. 2020
• Peterson had touted his work on the farm bill and trade deals that helped his agrarian district.
  — Rebecca Morin, USA TODAY, 4 Nov. 2020
• At the same time, a reappraisal of Puerto Rico’s agrarian past is taking place.
  — Moises Velasquez-Manoff, New York Times, 8 Nov. 2022
• The program pays homage to the county’s agrarian history by installing 8-foot square quilt blocks on scenic barns.
  — Sherry Greenfield, Baltimore Sun, 25 Aug. 2023
• But the United States in 1982 was not a country with a backward agrarian economy.
  — Kevin D. Williamson, National Review, 19 Jan. 2018
• The majority of the immigrants were from the agrarian but poor County Mayo.
  — cleveland.com, 13 Mar. 2018
• What can be done to address the risk of climate change in Myanmar, or in other rural, agrarian regions?
  — Eli Meixler / Singapore, Time, 2 Apr. 2018
• If your grandma likes to garden, get her this agrarian tool basket from Williams Sonoma.
  — Enjanae' Taylor, Southern Living, 7 Nov. 2023
• Amish communities are agrarian, with no modern farm equipment, meaning all the work has to be done by hand.
  — Jeffrey Kluger, Time, 15 Feb. 2018
• And all of them encourage kids to do, and take responsibility for, tasks that are part of our agrarian past.
  — Anne Schamberg, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 3 July 2018
• At the time of our founding the vast majority of citizens were rural and agrarian.
  — Star Tribune, 29 Oct. 2020
• In agrarian societies, tied to the land and the seasons, flower crowns had great symbolic meaning.
  — Laird Borrelli-Persson, Vogue, 22 June 2018
• In the absence of movies, theater or sports teams, rodeo was the ascendant form of public entertainment across much of the great agrarian nation.
  — Melissa Lyttle, Smithsonian, 13 Dec. 2017
• Scheduled to run April 13-30, it’s set in a medieval, agrarian society.
  — Manuel Mendoza, Dallas News, 4 Apr. 2023
• Amidst centuries-old brick houses and the agrarian landscape, the Wadden Sea already seemed distant.
  — Elizabeth Hewitt, Travel + Leisure, 2 July 2023
• Until the 1950s, the county didn’t change much from its established agrarian lifestyle.
  — baltimoresun.com, 28 Feb. 2019
• When the country was mostly agrarian, children would help their families with farm work.
  — Henry Gass, The Christian Science Monitor, 6 June 2023
• Its listeners are the million or so people of Nuh, a rural, agrarian district in the foothills of the Aravali mountains in the northern Indian state of Haryana.
  — Karan Deep Singh, New York Times, 10 Oct. 2023
• The game may have become the sport of choice in those communities because the pastoral qualities of the game fit the immigrant’s agrarian lifestyles.
  — Roy Bragg, San Antonio Express-News, 3 June 2018
• In terms of scale, think of how the industrial revolution transformed the agrarian age.
  — Ed Clendaniel, The Mercury News, 20 July 2019
• Until about a century ago, in a more agrarian time, the average dog was a fixture of the American barnyard.
  — Daniel Dorsa, Smithsonian Magazine, 17 Nov. 2020
• Ellen Davis, a theologian at Duke University who has written a book on the agrarian roots of the Bible, has reflected at length on that passage.
  — Robert Kunzig, National Geographic, 13 Oct. 2020
• The interior boasts limestone walls and exposed wooden beams to add to the agrarian feel, while the exterior is clad in charred timber.
  — Alex Bazeley, Curbed, 6 July 2018
• Hopes for the agrarian focused market quickly slipped after regulators failed to open stores on time.
  — Wesley Parnell, Rolling Stone, 22 Mar. 2024
• But many scientists say that one culprit is particularly to blame for the Delhi smog: farmers burning rice stubble in Punjab, an agrarian state to the northwest.
  — Hari Kumar, New York Times, 3 Nov. 2023

Last Updated: 5 Sep 2024