How to Use farmhand in a Sentence
farmhand
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But what about the seven Tigers farmhands who played in the 2017 WBC?
— Ryan Ford, Detroit Free Press, 21 Mar. 2023 -
Ploughs would halt in the middle of a field; farmhands would stand still and pray.
— The Economist, 18 Dec. 2019 -
There’s the story about the farmhand who was gored by a bull in the cornfield.
— Liz Arnold, Longreads, 11 July 2018 -
But the value the three farmhands provide remains to be seen.
— Jacob Calvin Meyer, Baltimore Sun, 3 Sep. 2023 -
Inside one of the pens, a farmhand sat on a plastic stool, feeding the ducks.
— Anne Kadet, WSJ, 9 July 2019 -
The first suspect was Joe Molino, the farmhand who had fetched the doctors.
— Paula Allen, ExpressNews.com, 21 Mar. 2020 -
In April, while loading the planter with seed, Mr. Burdin joked with farmhands about equipment in the old days.
— James Marson, WSJ, 23 Sep. 2018 -
The movie gets its name from this book and follows the story of a farmhand named Westley.
— Kori Williams, Seventeen, 29 June 2020 -
In the meantime, the farmhand who told the AP about the Done Taw massacre is defiant.
— David Rising and, BostonGlobe.com, 30 Dec. 2021 -
Some are here to find work — from farmhands to engineers to doctors.
— AZCentral.com, 16 Aug. 2019 -
Many of the city's men work as fishermen or farmhands, which leaves women to run the market.
— Amanda Erickson, Washington Post, 8 Sep. 2017 -
The 29 year old was largely a farmhand for the Padres and Rangers before playing the last three seasons in Japan.
— Matthew Defranks, Sun-Sentinel.com, 7 June 2018 -
Adley Rutschman provided much of the spark for the O’s with a fourth-inning grand slam off farmhand Ryan Miller.
— Julian McWilliams, BostonGlobe.com, 12 Mar. 2023 -
The second building likely once served as quarters for the farmhands.
— Shari Rudavsky, Indianapolis Star, 13 May 2017 -
Late one morning, one of the farmhands explained that there was a sick goose that needed dealing with.
— Simon Parkin, The New Yorker, 17 Oct. 2019 -
Any farmhands and family who are about will eat lunch with you in the farmhouse dining room.
— Maria Gabriella Landers, Town & Country, 5 Oct. 2016 -
Any farmhands and family who are about will eat lunch with you in the farmhouse dining room.
— Maria Gabriella Landers, Town & Country, 5 Oct. 2016 -
One of his students, Doniphon’s farmhand Pompey (Woody Strode), is a black man.
— Kyle Smith, National Review, 25 Nov. 2019 -
Cooper grew up on a farm in Nash County and knows full well the rigors of being a farmhand.
— Nick Martin, The New Republic, 26 Oct. 2020 -
In the hot summer days of the 1930s, Jimmie and I were turned loose on our own for most of the day and enjoyed shadowing along as farmhands worked near our home.
— Helen Shriver Riley, Baltimore Sun, 29 July 2023 -
When that falls through, the bills stop getting paid, and Allison is forced to become the first farmhand in the South Downs to own a chinchilla coat.
— Leslie Felperin, The Hollywood Reporter, 27 Jan. 2020 -
Blakeney, who had worked for decades as a farmhand, was once tall and muscular.
— BostonGlobe.com, 11 Sep. 2021 -
In the leadup to the victory party at the ranch, farmhand Jake is seen wearing a Carhartt sweatshirt.
— cleveland, 14 Nov. 2022 -
Harvest was coming, and her husband was dead, killed in a work dispute with a farmhand.
— Washington Post, 20 Oct. 2019 -
So there’s been a spike in Michigan growers bringing up Mexican farmhands over the past few years.
— Christa Case Bryant, The Christian Science Monitor, 22 June 2018 -
Instead, the Dodgers will look to a former farmhand and steady veteran, Miguel Rojas, to assume much of the load at short.
— Gabe Lacques, USA TODAY, 28 Feb. 2023 -
The Guardians had no interest in their former farmhand.
— Paul Hoynes, cleveland, 3 Sep. 2022 -
With no cattle or money to buy seeds, his family worked as farmhands.
— Niharika Mandhana, WSJ, 23 Nov. 2018 -
This time, an electronic gate opened onto a long dirt road through lavender fields worked by farmhands in broad-brimmed straw hats.
— Tony Perrottet, Travel + Leisure, 24 Apr. 2024 -
Their first five runs were all charged to Rays starter — and former Yankees farmhand — Zack Littell.
— Gary Phillips, Hartford Courant, 22 July 2024
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