How to Use peasant in a Sentence

peasant

noun

• They treated us like a bunch of peasants.
• Rigu grew up the son of peasants in a maize farm north of Nairobi.
  — Marcello Rossi, Smithsonian, 12 Feb. 2018
• The words that the evangelicals bring discourage peasants from working for the earth, but to work for heaven.
  — Aaron Gilbreath, Longreads, 23 Jan. 2018
• The Hussites were largely peasants, supported by like-minded nobles.
  — Marilynne Robinson, New Republic, 12 Dec. 2017
• And of course, that’s why two generations of peasants had given sticky rice and protection to people like Cung and stiffed and lied to people like us.
  — Jeff Stein, Newsweek, 18 Oct. 2017
• Any classic cowboy would feel at ease in the suede coat with sheepskin linings, while leather vests layered over flowing white peasant shirts for men or dresses for women gave an edge to the usual boho styling.
  — Colleen Barry, The Seattle Times, 14 Jan. 2018
• While in Russia, Imbrie witnessed a peasant shot dead by a guard over a miniscule amount of food—a portent of the Great Famine that would soon claim millions of lives.
  — Francine Uenuma, Smithsonian Magazine, 5 Sep. 2024
• Luther acted irrationally and discreditably toward peasants and Jews, a fact probably related to his having lived for years under a death sentence.
  — Marilynne Robinson, New Republic, 12 Dec. 2017
• The nobles and peasants of the 1841 original are recast as powerful landlords and migrant factory workers.
  — John Von Rhein, chicagotribune.com, 12 Feb. 2018
• Here the rain is the peasant's god and the driver's curse.
  — Cnt Editors, Condé Nast Traveler, 17 Nov. 2022
• The peasant girl who brought it to him enriched the soup with a raw egg.
  — Bill St. John, The Denver Post, 14 Apr. 2020
• Stazhadze had grown up a peasant, sent to work in a prince’s kitchens as a boy.
  — Washington Post, 28 Oct. 2021
• The effect is not of a bull in a china shop, or of peasants storming the Bastille.
  — Sonia Saraiya, HWD, 9 May 2018
• Rumor has it that, in medieval times, peasants downed it to ward off the plague.
  — Elise Taylor, Vogue, 11 June 2018
• The parts of the country near the United States have prospered while peasants in the south still toil outdoors in the sun.
  — The Economist, 23 June 2018
• He had been born the son of a Swiss peasant farmer and never forgot the pains of his origins.
  — The Economist, 12 Apr. 2018
• In gratitude, Death grants the peasant the ability to cure the sick.
  — John Hopewell, Variety, 1 Nov. 2021
• In the crowd jostling around them, the women wore peasant skirts and striped sailors’ tops, and none of the men, apart from these two, were wearing ties.
  — Tessa Hadley, The New Yorker, 23 June 2024
• Here’s the twist: this peasant dish won’t win a beauty contest.
  — Rita Nader Heikenfeld, The Enquirer, 11 Nov. 2022
• In the rougher south they were divinely seized peasants.
  — Cynthia Ozick, Harper’s Magazine , 10 Apr. 2023
• So step away from the stove, turn off the oven, and channel your inner Medieval peasant.
  — Sharon Greenthal, Better Homes & Gardens, 28 June 2023
• His mother, who ran the store, raised two kids in America but was, in her heart, a peasant from the shtetl.
  — Charles McGrath, New York Times, 5 Mar. 2020
• Set in the Chilean countryside, the film tells the story of a peasant who asks the devil to grant him a wish beneath a full moon.
  — Christopher Vourlias, Variety, 26 Jan. 2022
• From the mightiest Pharaoh to the lowliest peasant, who doesn’t enjoy a good sit?
  — Andrew J. Hawkins, The Verge, 21 Oct. 2018
• Cherry clafoutis is a simple peasant dessert from the Limousin region in France.
  — Washington Post, 7 July 2021
• The pleated, puffy sleeves come from the shirts of Russian peasants from the late 19th and early 20th century.
  — Liana Satenstein, Vogue, 11 June 2018
• Just make sure those peasants the Joneses take their shoes off before walking up to your door.
  — Candace Braun Davison, House Beautiful, 21 May 2018
• The show is about Ti Moune, a fearless peasant girl searching for her place in the world, guided by island gods.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 23 June 2021
• Over the history of our species most of us lived much like a peasant in India or Bangladesh does today.
  — Michael Hicks, Indianapolis Star, 24 June 2018
• The peasant blouse is a timeless staple for fall, and this one comes in so many colors that are on trend for the season, including mustard yellow, wine red, and brick orange.
  — Clara McMahon, Peoplemag, 5 Aug. 2024

Last Updated: 25 Oct 2024