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How to use farmhand in a sentence

10 example sentences · noun

Farmhand means synonym of farmworker. Example: “A reclusive dowager owned the pastures across the river, and her farmhands ran beef cattle on them.”

More sentences with farmhand

  • A reclusive dowager owned the pastures across the river, and her farmhands ran beef cattle on them.From the entry dowager
  • A cereal breeder's farmhands must be good plowmen.From the entry plowman
  • A cereal breeder's farmhands must be good plowmen and plowwomen.From the entry plowwoman
  • Their mules were clearly veterans. They seemed to know what to do even better than the teenage farmhand who was driving the team.From the entry veteran
  • One of your highest duties as a farmhand is to make sure that no livestock goes unwatered, even when things go wrong with the equipment.From the entry unwatered
  • Rising from humble farmhand to community organizer to a leader of the national Fatah party, Mr.2024 April 1, Taylor Luck, Fatima AbdulKarim, “Palestinian Mandela? Marwan Barghouti, imprisoned preacher of unity.”, in The Christian…. From the entry oratory
  • The two Russians made good farmhands, and in summer they worked out together.1918, Willa Cather, chapter 5, in My Ántonia, Boston: Houghton Mifflin, page 38. From the entry work out
  • The other difference I noticed from '42 was the sharp drop in oyster farmhands, from hundreds to only three today.2022, David Moscow, John Moscow, From Scratch: Adventures in Harvesting, Hunting, Fishing, and Foraging on a Fragile Planet, unnumbered page. From the entry kenopsia
  • For generations my family worked as farmhands for a landlord.1976, Chen Chao, “TO SHOW "BENEVOLENCE" TO THE ENEMY IS TO BETRAY THE PEOPLE”, in Workers, Peasants and Soldiers Criticize Lin Piao and…. From the entry Yungchuan
  • During the week, Bantu women work in the studio, the wives of farmhands, who are free to come and work when they want to.anon 1974. From the entry kopdoeks

Meaning of farmhand

  1. noun Synonym of farmworker.
  2. noun A player in the minor leagues.

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Questions about farmhand in a sentence

How do you use farmhand in a sentence?
Farmhand is used as a noun. For example: “A reclusive dowager owned the pastures across the river, and her farmhands ran beef cattle on them.”
What is a short sentence with farmhand?
“A cereal breeder's farmhands must be good plowmen.”
What does farmhand mean?
Farmhand means synonym of farmworker.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: farmhand (page history and authors) and the entries each sentence comes from. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws chose the sentences, left out offensive ones and quotations older than 1900, and marked the word in each. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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