How to Use farmer in a Sentence

farmer

noun
  • My uncle has been a farmer for 60 years.
  • In the Amazon, farmers want to steal the land from the natives.
    Rafa Sales Ross, Variety, 27 Jan. 2024
  • At one point in the video, a baby in a stroller even gives salmon farmers the finger.
    Dac Collins, Outdoor Life, 27 June 2024
  • Whether you're headed for the farmer's market, the beach, or the grocery store, this bag is the gift that keeps on giving.
    Dobrina Zhekova, Travel + Leisure, 9 Jan. 2024
  • Tenant farmers raised grain crops to pay the landlords’ rent.
    Richard Grant, Smithsonian Magazine, 7 Sep. 2023
  • In stores or at farmer’s markets, look for asparagus that is not too dried out at the cut ends.
    Katie Workman, San Diego Union-Tribune, 3 Apr. 2024
  • Berry grew up in the Bayou Meto community near DeWitt and was the son of a farmer.
    Tony Holt, Arkansas Online, 25 June 2023
  • Who did the other 'Farmer Wants a Wife' Season 2 farmers pick?
    Hannah Kirby, Journal Sentinel, 10 May 2024
  • That group includes some farmers and ranchers near the border of the landscape where the bears will make a new home.
    Evan Bush, NBC News, 28 Apr. 2024
  • Yet farmers might dry out their peatland or harvest the peat.
    Ashoka, Forbes, 11 Dec. 2023
  • And the farmer wants to be compensated ... for those good practices.
    Kristen Jordan Shamus, Detroit Free Press, 28 June 2024
  • All of the peppers used in the sauce were grown by Black farmers and urban gardeners.
    Courtland Milloy, Washington Post, 3 Oct. 2023
  • On top of that, farmers had to deal with inflated feed and fuel costs.
    Elisabeth Buchwald, CNN, 13 Sep. 2023
  • The farmers gave up their animals to be adopted as pets.
    John Yoon, New York Times, 9 Jan. 2024
  • The program does benefit farmers to the tune of $1.4 billion to $2.7 billion per year, the GAO found.
    Laurent Belsie, The Christian Science Monitor, 18 Dec. 2023
  • Desert farmers share their best tips on how to grow food in hot, dry conditions.
    Jaweed Kaleem, Los Angeles Times, 2 May 2024
  • Enter from the farmer’s porch, and the living room is right of the entryway, while the dining room at left has bay windows.
    Jon Gorey, BostonGlobe.com, 5 May 2023
  • Any good farmer waters his soil and fertilizes his crops.
    Adam Hurly, Robb Report, 2 Nov. 2023
  • Think: that time one of the guest chefs brought a saffron from Italy and Secchi decided to mix it with beets from the Union Square farmer’s market.
    Kristen Bateman, Vogue, 13 Aug. 2024
  • The victim’s car was found the next day when local farmers were trimming the bushes, Taylor said.
    Sean Neumann, Peoplemag, 5 Sep. 2023
  • But the most severe long-term effects will fall on Southeast Ukraine’s farmers.
    Susanne Wengle, Fortune, 8 July 2023
  • Emu oil can be purchased online, at a health food store, or directly from a farmer.
    Elizabeth Barnes, Verywell Health, 28 Feb. 2024
  • This should mean that most farmers will not need to pay for soil health monitoring.
    Lila Levinson, Dallas News, 18 July 2023
  • In today’s Receipt, a 26-year-old mushroom farmer brews a daily blend of her own herbal tea and works long, intense days on the farm.
    Bon Appétit Contributor, Bon Appétit, 15 June 2023
  • The farmer or drone pilot fills a drone with material and maps the field using a smartphone app.
    Cameron Pugh, The Christian Science Monitor, 13 Aug. 2024
  • But their road life decision leaves no options for farmer Dempsey.
    Kelly Wynne, Peoplemag, 25 Sep. 2023
  • This is also a time for homeowners to be tending to their yards and farmers to be planting.
    Sarah Bowman, The Indianapolis Star, 30 May 2023
  • The farmers protests were sparked by the introduction of new agriculture laws.
    Emily Zemler, Rolling Stone, 13 June 2023
  • Han said her bill offers support programs for farmers who agree to close their farms.
    Hyung-Jin Kim, USA TODAY, 31 July 2023
  • Arman Jais, a 38-year-old farmer and member of the Balik tribe, said he is routinely kept awake at night by the nearby construction of a dam for the new capital.
    Stephanie Yang, Los Angeles Times, 16 Aug. 2024

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