How to Use farmer in a Sentence

farmer

noun
  • My uncle has been a farmer for 60 years.
  • The farmer hid them through the night and sent them onward.
    — Ellen Wexler, Smithsonian Magazine, 18 June 2025
  • In the Amazon, farmers want to steal the land from the natives.
    — Rafa Sales Ross, Variety, 27 Jan. 2024
  • Wade hopes to guide you on the journey from farmer to loaf.
    — Lisa Futterman, Chicago Tribune, 29 Sep. 2022
  • Late in the afternoon, the farmer told Frink to fill up the troughs in a field with feed.
    — Eileen Finan, PEOPLE.com, 14 July 2022
  • Ivek was a farmer, a part-time schoolteacher, and one of the bus drivers.
    — Louise Erdrich, The New Yorker, 21 Nov. 2022
  • First, the cotton was picked and cleaned by the farmer, just like our apple.
    — Emily Baron Cadloff, Smithsonian Magazine, 24 Aug. 2022
  • Alaska could be a great home for the small backyard farmer.
    — John Schandelmeier, Anchorage Daily News, 22 Apr. 2023
  • After the move, Pearl was allegedly sent to a farmer across the street.
    — Rebecca Aizin, Peoplemag, 10 Jan. 2023
  • At one point in the video, a baby in a stroller even gives salmon farmers the finger.
    — Dac Collins, Outdoor Life, 27 June 2024
  • The typical farmer's meal was pane e cipolle -- bread and onions.
    — Silvia Marchetti, CNN, 8 Oct. 2022
  • But less than an hour later, the 51-year-old farmer from Price County lost the use of both legs.
    — Rick Barrett, Journal Sentinel, 21 July 2022
  • Not all Christmas trees need to be obtained from a farmer.
    — Skye Resendes, San Diego Union-Tribune, 10 Dec. 2022
  • The farmer then falls to the ground and appears to age rapidly before dying.
    — Lauren Huff, EW.com, 1 Mar. 2023
  • For one cotton farmer in Texas, the answer might be to downsize.
    — Emily Baron Cadloff, Smithsonian Magazine, 24 Aug. 2022
  • 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
  • Make that jam or soap or spaghetti sauce and sell it at a booth at a farmer’s market.
    — Phil Blair, San Diego Union-Tribune, 24 Jan. 2022
  • What else was a dairy farmer to do but move his family and open an ice cream shop?
    — Tara Massouleh McCay, Southern Living, 27 Feb. 2025
  • But dairy farmers are required to milk cows and tend to the dairy every day, all year-round.
    — Rachel Spacek, Idaho Statesman, 24 Jan. 2025
  • What is happening to the farmers who used to provide the schools with the produce?
    — Miles Bryan, Vox, 23 Jan. 2025
  • Your goal: Do a farmer’s carry with half your bodyweight in each hand for one minute.
    — Ben Court, Men's Health, 10 Mar. 2023
  • Tenant farmers raised grain crops to pay the landlords’ rent.
    — Richard Grant, Smithsonian Magazine, 7 Sep. 2023
  • His father was a farmer; his mother died when George was 3.
    — Richard Goldstein, New York Times, 8 Dec. 2022
  • His father was a farmer; his mother died when George was 3.
    — Richard Goldstein, BostonGlobe.com, 9 Dec. 2022
  • In Sussex, Dad became the farmer, and loved walking the land in his Wellington boots.
    — Marc Myers, WSJ, 21 Dec. 2021
  • Stein, then 47, was a farmer in Wright, Kansas, about an hour away from Garden City.
    — Mike Levine, ABC News, 31 Oct. 2021
  • Start with the most classic of strongman events, the farmer’s walk, a Stoltman favorite.
    — Michael Easter, Men's Health, 1 Mar. 2022
  • To Sims, not every farm needs to solve world hunger, and not everyone should be a farmer.
    — Melanie Canales, Wired, 29 Nov. 2021
  • The weekly farmer’s market at Salt Lake Park is a proverbial ghost town.
    — Los Angeles Times, 11 July 2025
  • Advocates say the proposal could be a big hit to hemp farmers in the state as well as connected businesses.
    — Lucas Aulbach, The Courier-Journal, 11 July 2025

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