How to Use sharecropper in a Sentence

sharecropper

noun

• The men took the sharecropper out of the car, hanged him from a tree and shot him.
  — Vanessa Gregory, New York Times, 25 Apr. 2018
• Pride was raised in Sledge, Miss., the son of a sharecropper.
  — Arkansas Online, 12 Dec. 2020
• At the time, there was a sharecroppers hut where the hay barn now rests.
  — Théoden Janes, charlotteobserver, 5 Feb. 2018
• The black workers seen in the film are sharecroppers, not slaves.
  — Kyle Smith, National Review, 30 Aug. 2017
• Born in Waco, Texas, Miller was the grandson of slaves and the son of sharecroppers.
  — The View, ABC News, 11 Feb. 2020
• In the late 1940s she was accused, with her two sons, of killing a white sharecropper.
  — Scott Reyburn, New York Times, 15 Nov. 2019
• Charley Pride was 14 at the time, one of 11 children of a sharecropper in Sledge, Miss., a cotton town in the Delta.
  — Los Angeles Times, 12 Dec. 2020
• Head was not born when her father, then a sharecropper, was in the Tuskegee Study.
  — al, 24 Feb. 2021
• His father was a sharecropper who went on to work in steel mills first in the South and later in the Midwest.
  — Darcel Rockett, chicagotribune.com, 13 Oct. 2021
• Born in the Jim Crow South in 1932, Jackson married young and worked in the fields with her husband as a sharecropper.
  — Julie Zauzmer, Washington Post, 10 July 2020
• The next aircraft carrier to be built will be named for the grandson of slaves and a son of sharecroppers.
  — CBS News, 19 Jan. 2020
• Raised in the Deep South, Grandma was a daughter of a sharecropper and had to stop attending school in 3rd grade.
  — Shannon Farley, Forbes, 16 Mar. 2021
• Weber was born on a farm in Hope, Ark., where her father was a sharecropper.
  — John Wildermuth, SFChronicle.com, 22 Dec. 2020
• Born in Montgomery County, Miss., Hamer worked as a sharecropper for much of her life.
  — Keisha N. Blain, Time, 4 Oct. 2019
• The brazen lynching of the four sharecroppers horrified the country that year.
  — Washington Post, 27 Feb. 2018
• Frazier was the son, and 12th child, of a one-armed South Carolina sharecropper.
  — Bill Dwyre, Los Angeles Times, 8 Mar. 2021
• The wealth of Mansa Musa is hidden beneath the sharecropper’s poverty.
  — Solomon Jones, Philly.com, 4 July 2017
• Yet the sharecropper’s eighth child always saw herself as a tourist in the realm of affluence, even with cash on hand.
  — The New Yorker, 18 Apr. 2022
• Blige plays the role of Florence Jackson, a mother and sharecropper’s wife.
  — Washington Post, 11 Dec. 2017
• Pride was raised in Sledge, Mississippi, the son of a sharecropper.
  — CBS News, 13 Dec. 2020
• The granddaughter of a sharecropper who never learned to read, Hall read for a living.
  — Washington Post, 8 Dec. 2020
• The pride of Sledge, Mississippi, was the son of a sharecropper who initially turned to sports as a way to a better life.
  — Kristen M. Hall, The Christian Science Monitor, 13 Dec. 2020
• The man he was named after — a sharecropper named Bill Curl — was Hawkins' great-great-grandfather.
  — CBS News, 5 May 2021
• But to those sharecropper's kids picking cotton, that place seemed like the Taj Mahal.
  — CBS News, 23 Dec. 2019
• Four sharecropper cabins sketched in the 1940s by Samella Lewis have a mean, shutdown and abandoned look.
  — New York Times, 15 July 2021
• Smaller farmers and sharecroppers did not share in the benefits to the same extent.
  — Surupa Gupta, Foreign Affairs, 3 Mar. 2021
• That meant that nearly a million tenant farmers and sharecroppers got kicked off the land.
  — Meg Jacobs, Foreign Affairs, 8 Dec. 2020
• Nill said his grandfather was a sharecropper on the Crescent Rim.
  — Angela Palermo, Idaho Statesman, 9 May 2024
• His parents were sharecroppers; half of what the family made pulling cotton went to the other family that actually owned the land.
  — Christopher Borrelli, Chicago Tribune, 11 Aug. 2024
• Hamer, a Mississippi sharecropper, challenged the make-up of her state's all-white delegation and the national party’s lack of Black delegates.
  — Deborah Barfield Berry, USA TODAY, 15 Aug. 2024

Last Updated: 11 Nov 2024