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Examples of work farm in a Sentence
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The relative emailed one of the reporters, who found that Moran was also among hundreds of unclaimed bodies buried at the county jail’s work farm.
—Jon Schuppe, NBC News, 22 Feb. 2024
Poverty Hollow was a debtors’ work farm and is now, because time has a sense of humor, the site of some of the town’s most McMansion-y developments.
—Clare Beams, Peoplemag, 7 Apr. 2024
On March 31, the coroner’s office asked the Hinds County Board of Supervisors for permission to bury Moran in a pauper’s field on the grounds of the county jail’s work farm, records show.
—Jon Schuppe, NBC News, 22 Feb. 2024
After going unclaimed for months, those bodies were buried in a pauper’s field on the grounds of the county jail work farm, their graves marked only by a number.
—Jon Schuppe, NBC News, 17 Jan. 2024
The unclaimed dead of Hinds County, Mississippi, are buried along a dirt road on the grounds of a jail work farm, their graves marked with just a metal rod and a number.
—Jon Schuppe, NBC News, 23 Mar. 2016
But two of Emmett’s friends from the work farm, Duchess and Woolly, join them and force Emmett and Billy east to New York.
—Richard J. Chang, Forbes, 6 June 2022
Emmett Watson, 18, has just returned to Nebraska from 15 months at a juvenile work farm in Kansas.
—Joanne Kaufman, WSJ, 1 Oct. 2021
Margaret, Waley’s wife, landed at a Michigan work farm.
—oregonlive, 24 Sep. 2021
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Word History
First Known Use
1835, in the meaning defined above
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“Work farm.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/work%20farm. Accessed 14 Nov. 2024.
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