How to Use collective farm in a Sentence
collective farm
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The state owned the nation's herd and grazing land, with herders paid a wage for working in collective farms.
—Max Baring, The Christian Science Monitor, 3 May 2018
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She was brought up left-wing — on a collective farm outside New York City.
—Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 1 May 2020
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The collective farm provided work for all in the nearby wheat fields, vineyards and orchards.
—New York Times, 15 July 2019
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The kolkhoz, or collective farm, that once stood in the heart of Senkivka was abandoned, graffiti on its walls warning that the building was liable to collapse.
—Nabih Bulos, Los Angeles Times, 9 Feb. 2022
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Some of the Russians and their armored vehicles were holed up in a tractor garage by the cattle pens and had stopped people from working at the collective farm, called Husarivkse.
—New York Times, 17 Apr. 2022
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That life ends for Zuleikha when Red Army soldiers show up to confiscate Murtaza’s property and force him to join a collective farm.
—Maria Danilova, The Seattle Times, 14 Jan. 2019
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Of course people weren’t staring at their phones in the 1920s, but the posters were plastered everywhere — at work and on collective farms, in train and trolley stations, on the walls of storefronts and apartment buildings.
—Anne Tschida, miamiherald, 22 June 2018
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Lukashenko, a former collective farm manager, has been in office since 1994.
—Yuras Karmanau, Star Tribune, 26 Sep. 2020
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Onishchenko's father was a truck driver on a Soviet-era collective farm in 1991, when the Soviet Union collapsed.
—Sabra Ayres, latimes.com, 16 Mar. 2018
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The museum, housed in a grand villa built before the war as a summer retreat and then confiscated by Hoxha’s communists, closed decades ago, along with the clinic and the collective farm.
—New York Times, 16 Aug. 2021
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Both of his grandfathers were peasants, collective farm chairmen and members of the Communist Party, as was his father.
—Jim Heintz, BostonGlobe.com, 30 Aug. 2022
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Her mother, who worked on a collective farm, a vineyard, had a pleasant singing voice and encouraged her gifted daughter’s singing in school choirs and local ensembles.
—New York Times, 22 Oct. 2021
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Both his grandfathers were peasants, collective farm chairmen and members of the Communist Party, as was his father.
—The Salt Lake Tribune, 30 Aug. 2022
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Their president has been in power for more than 25 years, ever since the Soviet Union fell, and his prior job was managing a socialist collective farm.
—Danielle Wallace, Fox News, 19 Nov. 2020
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These involved criticisms of collective farms and mentions of military defeats or of labor camps.
—Robert Chandler, The New Yorker, 19 June 2019
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The photographs, all in black and white, were the work of Zaharia Cușnir, the house’s former owner, who had eked out a living by taking passport and other photos for residents of the surrounding villages, which were part of a local collective farm.
—Washington Post, 24 Feb. 2021
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Through donations of reindeer, walrus blubber, and rubles, collective farms sponsored tank convoys.
—Bathsheba Demuth, The New Yorker, 15 Aug. 2019
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Marinov and his family acquired Vela in the early 1990s, when Bulgaria’s collective farms collapsed along with Communism.
—Sophie Pinkham, The New Republic, 3 May 2018
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Tikhanovsky's wife stepped into his place and with Tsepkalo's wife and Barbariko's campaign manager, formed an unlikely troika of women in a country long run by a strongman who was head of a collective farm in Soviet times.
—Fox News, 11 Aug. 2020
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Underneath the plot about wealthy peasants (known as kulaks) fighting to undermine a collective farm is beautiful imagery of Ukrainian nature and the unique qualities of Ukrainian folk culture.
—Joshua First, The Atlantic, 3 Mar. 2022
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Hamas operatives seemed to have taken over a collective farm inside Israel, taking Israelis captive.
—Ethan Bronner, Fortune, 7 Oct. 2023
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In 2015, however, South Korea’s spy agency speculated that he was briefly banished to a rural collective farm for reeducation.
—Hyung-Jin Kim, The Seattle Times, 12 Apr. 2019
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Lukashenko, a former collective farm manager, has held power since then through flawed elections, jailing opponents and critics, blocking rivals from contesting elections and harsh crackdowns on protests.
—Robyn Dixon, Washington Post, 29 Aug. 2020
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Aiming to feed a growing urban work force and increase exports, Stalin’s henchmen forced peasants onto collective farms and eliminated relatively well-off peasants known as kulaks.
—Mark Atwood Lawrence, New York Times, 19 Oct. 2017
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After the fall of communism, Romania divided its agricultural land between former collective farms (transformed into private companies) and the people who had worked on them.
—The Economist, 23 Jan. 2020
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Rena Gluck’s company visited theaters, village squares and kibbutz collective farms with modern dance performances built around Graham’s percussive and muscular techniques of form and flow.
—Brian Murphy, Washington Post, 26 Feb. 2023
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So basically, everything that everybody loves about communism but without the collective farm.
—Heran Mamo, Billboard, 3 June 2021
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Throughout his 26 years as president, Lukashenko, a former collective farm director, has relied on Russian subsidies to keep the nation's Soviet-style economy running but resisted Moscow's push for closer integration of the neighboring nations.
—Vladimir Isachenkov, Star Tribune, 31 July 2020
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