How to Use collective farm in a Sentence

collective farm

noun

• 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
• She was brought up left-wing — on a collective farm outside New York City.
  — Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 1 May 2020
• The collective farm provided work for all in the nearby wheat fields, vineyards and orchards.
  — New York Times, 15 July 2019
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• Lukashenko, a former collective farm manager, has been in office since 1994.
  — Yuras Karmanau, Star Tribune, 26 Sep. 2020
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• These involved criticisms of collective farms and mentions of military defeats or of labor camps.
  — Robert Chandler, The New Yorker, 19 June 2019
• 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
• Through donations of reindeer, walrus blubber, and rubles, collective farms sponsored tank convoys.
  — Bathsheba Demuth, The New Yorker, 15 Aug. 2019
• 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
• 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
• 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
• Hamas operatives seemed to have taken over a collective farm inside Israel, taking Israelis captive.
  — Ethan Bronner, Fortune, 7 Oct. 2023
• Greece, Italy, Spain, and Portugal never had collective farms, but the inexorable aging of their populations and the exodus of young people to cities is emptying villages and leaving fields and pastures untended.
  — WIRED, 14 Oct. 2023
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• So basically, everything that everybody loves about communism but without the collective farm.
  — Heran Mamo, Billboard, 3 June 2021
• 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

Last Updated: 21 Sep 2024