How to Use field hand in a Sentence

field hand

noun

• The mobs were out to break a monthlong strike by sugar plantation field hands, many of them ex-slaves, in the era following the American civil war.
  — Washington Post, 17 May 2018
• Translation: The optics were really bad because some of the field hands got unruly.
  — Kevin Williams, chicagotribune.com, 23 May 2018
• The journey from seed to plate is uncertain—drought, pests, predators, limited cash, too much rain, and too few field hands willing to work sticky-hot summers from sunup to sundown.
  — Eric Velasco, al, 13 Aug. 2019
• Present-day homes include grand farm estates as well as more modest field hand houses turned residential homes.
  — Christina Tkacik, baltimoresun.com, 19 Aug. 2021
• At that time, Mexicans were largely excluded from jobs other than working as field hands.
  — Erin Stone, azcentral, 31 Dec. 2019
• By the American Civil War, nearly four million slaves in all toiled in the southern states, and about a million lived as servants in mansions and as field hands on large plantations with 50 slaves or more.
  — Robert E. May, The Conversation, 12 Dec. 2019
• Decades ago, as the mechanization of agriculture wiped out the need for field hands, many black residents migrated north for factory jobs.
  — Author: Richard Fausset, Anchorage Daily News, 29 Mar. 2018
• Burnett, though a year younger than Shields, became a pseudo-mentor, creating on-field hand signals specifically for Shields to help him identify the play.
  — Jr Radcliffe, Journal Sentinel, 3 Nov. 2022
• Her empathetic portraits of African-American field hands shine a light on a system of peonage that predated and outlasted the 1930s.
  — New York Times, 12 Mar. 2020
• And now, so do UPS drivers, and postal workers, and agricultural field hands, and hospital orderlies, and a whole range of people whose jobs require them to continue to work with others despite the dangers and lockdowns.
  — Peter Grier, The Christian Science Monitor, 28 Apr. 2020
• According to Encyclopedia Britannica, she was forced to work from a young age, alternatively acting as a nursemaid, a field hand, a cook and a woodcutter.
  — Isis Davis-Marks, Smithsonian Magazine, 22 Apr. 2021
• Unlike heroin, cocaine or marijuana, the distributor explained, fentanyl didn’t require farmland, crops, sunshine, rain or field hands.
  — Alex W. Palmer, New York Times, 17 Oct. 2019

Last Updated: 24 Oct 2024