How to Use peasant in a Sentence

peasant

noun

• They treated us like a bunch of peasants.
• Here the rain is the peasant's god and the driver's curse.
  — Cnt Editors, Condé Nast Traveler, 17 Nov. 2022
• The peasant girl who brought it to him enriched the soup with a raw egg.
  — Bill St. John, The Denver Post, 14 Apr. 2020
• Stazhadze had grown up a peasant, sent to work in a prince’s kitchens as a boy.
  — Washington Post, 28 Oct. 2021
• Rigu grew up the son of peasants in a maize farm north of Nairobi.
  — Marcello Rossi, Smithsonian, 12 Feb. 2018
• Those are the words of a king who is being challenged by a peasant.
  — Philip Bump, Washington Post, 2 June 2017
• The effect is not of a bull in a china shop, or of peasants storming the Bastille.
  — Sonia Saraiya, HWD, 9 May 2018
• The peasant knows less and less when to sow [and] less and less land becomes available.
  — Jacqueline Charles, miamiherald, 9 Sep. 2017
• Rumor has it that, in medieval times, peasants downed it to ward off the plague.
  — Elise Taylor, Vogue, 11 June 2018
• The parts of the country near the United States have prospered while peasants in the south still toil outdoors in the sun.
  — The Economist, 23 June 2018
• He had been born the son of a Swiss peasant farmer and never forgot the pains of his origins.
  — The Economist, 12 Apr. 2018
• In gratitude, Death grants the peasant the ability to cure the sick.
  — John Hopewell, Variety, 1 Nov. 2021
• In the crowd jostling around them, the women wore peasant skirts and striped sailors’ tops, and none of the men, apart from these two, were wearing ties.
  — Tessa Hadley, The New Yorker, 23 June 2024
• Here’s the twist: this peasant dish won’t win a beauty contest.
  — Rita Nader Heikenfeld, The Enquirer, 11 Nov. 2022
• In the rougher south they were divinely seized peasants.
  — Cynthia Ozick, Harper’s Magazine , 10 Apr. 2023
• So step away from the stove, turn off the oven, and channel your inner Medieval peasant.
  — Sharon Greenthal, Better Homes & Gardens, 28 June 2023
• His mother, who ran the store, raised two kids in America but was, in her heart, a peasant from the shtetl.
  — Charles McGrath, New York Times, 5 Mar. 2020
• Set in the Chilean countryside, the film tells the story of a peasant who asks the devil to grant him a wish beneath a full moon.
  — Christopher Vourlias, Variety, 26 Jan. 2022
• For hundreds of years throughout the Middle Ages, peasants ploughed and leveled the field.
  — Michael Price, Science | AAAS, 16 Aug. 2017
• From the mightiest Pharaoh to the lowliest peasant, who doesn’t enjoy a good sit?
  — Andrew J. Hawkins, The Verge, 21 Oct. 2018
• Ma grew up as the only son of peasants in central Henan province.
  — Bill Powell, Newsweek, 26 Nov. 2014
• Cherry clafoutis is a simple peasant dessert from the Limousin region in France.
  — Washington Post, 7 July 2021
• The pleated, puffy sleeves come from the shirts of Russian peasants from the late 19th and early 20th century.
  — Liana Satenstein, Vogue, 11 June 2018
• Over the centuries artists have been inspired by haystacks and open windows and rotting fruit and peasant's footwear and fog.
  — Kevin Conley, Town & Country, 9 Nov. 2015
• The film, set in Congo, follows a young peasant who dreams of a better future for his loved ones.
  — Rebecca Ford, The Hollywood Reporter, 25 May 2017
• Just make sure those peasants the Joneses take their shoes off before walking up to your door.
  — Candace Braun Davison, House Beautiful, 21 May 2018
• The show is about Ti Moune, a fearless peasant girl searching for her place in the world, guided by island gods.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 23 June 2021
• Over the history of our species most of us lived much like a peasant in India or Bangladesh does today.
  — Michael Hicks, Indianapolis Star, 24 June 2018
• While in Russia, Imbrie witnessed a peasant shot dead by a guard over a miniscule amount of food—a portent of the Great Famine that would soon claim millions of lives.
  — Francine Uenuma, Smithsonian Magazine, 5 Sep. 2024
• In subsequent centuries, after the fall of the Kyiv state, Ukrainian peasants were enserfed by Poles and then by Russians.
  — Timothy Snyder, Foreign Affairs, 6 Sep. 2022

Last Updated: 12 Dec 2024