How to Use farmhand in a Sentence

farmhand

noun
  • Both farmhands are having strong seasons offensively, but neither is on the Yankees’ 40-man roster.
    Gary Phillips, New York Daily News, 18 June 2024
  • But what about the seven Tigers farmhands who played in the 2017 WBC?
    Ryan Ford, Detroit Free Press, 21 Mar. 2023
  • Ploughs would halt in the middle of a field; farmhands would stand still and pray.
    The Economist, 18 Dec. 2019
  • There’s the story about the farmhand who was gored by a bull in the cornfield.
    Liz Arnold, Longreads, 11 July 2018
  • But the value the three farmhands provide remains to be seen.
    Jacob Calvin Meyer, Baltimore Sun, 3 Sep. 2023
  • Inside one of the pens, a farmhand sat on a plastic stool, feeding the ducks.
    Anne Kadet, WSJ, 9 July 2019
  • The first suspect was Joe Molino, the farmhand who had fetched the doctors.
    Paula Allen, ExpressNews.com, 21 Mar. 2020
  • In April, while loading the planter with seed, Mr. Burdin joked with farmhands about equipment in the old days.
    James Marson, WSJ, 23 Sep. 2018
  • The movie gets its name from this book and follows the story of a farmhand named Westley.
    Kori Williams, Seventeen, 29 June 2020
  • In the meantime, the farmhand who told the AP about the Done Taw massacre is defiant.
    David Rising and, BostonGlobe.com, 30 Dec. 2021
  • Some are here to find work — from farmhands to engineers to doctors.
    AZCentral.com, 16 Aug. 2019
  • Many of the city's men work as fishermen or farmhands, which leaves women to run the market.
    Amanda Erickson, Washington Post, 8 Sep. 2017
  • The 29 year old was largely a farmhand for the Padres and Rangers before playing the last three seasons in Japan.
    Matthew Defranks, Sun-Sentinel.com, 7 June 2018
  • Adley Rutschman provided much of the spark for the O’s with a fourth-inning grand slam off farmhand Ryan Miller.
    Julian McWilliams, BostonGlobe.com, 12 Mar. 2023
  • The second building likely once served as quarters for the farmhands.
    Shari Rudavsky, Indianapolis Star, 13 May 2017
  • Late one morning, one of the farmhands explained that there was a sick goose that needed dealing with.
    Simon Parkin, The New Yorker, 17 Oct. 2019
  • Any farmhands and family who are about will eat lunch with you in the farmhouse dining room.
    Maria Gabriella Landers, Town & Country, 5 Oct. 2016
  • Any farmhands and family who are about will eat lunch with you in the farmhouse dining room.
    Maria Gabriella Landers, Town & Country, 5 Oct. 2016
  • One of his students, Doniphon’s farmhand Pompey (Woody Strode), is a black man.
    Kyle Smith, National Review, 25 Nov. 2019
  • Cooper grew up on a farm in Nash County and knows full well the rigors of being a farmhand.
    Nick Martin, The New Republic, 26 Oct. 2020
  • In the hot summer days of the 1930s, Jimmie and I were turned loose on our own for most of the day and enjoyed shadowing along as farmhands worked near our home.
    Helen Shriver Riley, Baltimore Sun, 29 July 2023
  • When that falls through, the bills stop getting paid, and Allison is forced to become the first farmhand in the South Downs to own a chinchilla coat.
    Leslie Felperin, The Hollywood Reporter, 27 Jan. 2020
  • Blakeney, who had worked for decades as a farmhand, was once tall and muscular.
    BostonGlobe.com, 11 Sep. 2021
  • In the leadup to the victory party at the ranch, farmhand Jake is seen wearing a Carhartt sweatshirt.
    cleveland, 14 Nov. 2022
  • Harvest was coming, and her husband was dead, killed in a work dispute with a farmhand.
    Washington Post, 20 Oct. 2019
  • So there’s been a spike in Michigan growers bringing up Mexican farmhands over the past few years.
    Christa Case Bryant, The Christian Science Monitor, 22 June 2018
  • Instead, the Dodgers will look to a former farmhand and steady veteran, Miguel Rojas, to assume much of the load at short.
    Gabe Lacques, USA TODAY, 28 Feb. 2023
  • The Guardians had no interest in their former farmhand.
    Paul Hoynes, cleveland, 3 Sep. 2022
  • With no cattle or money to buy seeds, his family worked as farmhands.
    Niharika Mandhana, WSJ, 23 Nov. 2018
  • This time, an electronic gate opened onto a long dirt road through lavender fields worked by farmhands in broad-brimmed straw hats.
    Tony Perrottet, Travel + Leisure, 24 Apr. 2024

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