peasant

Definition:
1. A country person.
2. One of a (chiefly European) class of agricultural laborers.
3. A crude uncouth ill-bred person lacking culture or refinement.

Use 'peasant' in a sentence:

• 1. The country peasant trouser look was in.
• 2. The government hopes to better the conditions of the peasants.
• 3. Chinese peasants farm their own plots.
• 4. The peasants doff their hats.
• 5. In late 1927 he led the armed peasants into the hills of south Jiangxi.
• 6. The peasants have levelled three hundred acres of land.
• 7. The third fared no better, for the peasant again said: "Grete, that is the third."
• 8. The peasants covered the rice over before the rain began.
• 9. He was born of a peasant family.
• 10. We can only imagine the fallen angels with a kind of dim and uncertain light just as the belated peasant sees.
• 11. Peasants have left the land in the forlorn hope of finding a better life in cities.
• 12. The peasants threatened to revolt.
• 13. The peasant once more pinched the raven's head till he croaked loudly.
• 14. A local peasant led the guerrillas through the forest.
• 15. The peasant answered, "In the first place, he says that there is some wine hidden under the pillow."
• 16. The peasant answered, "I have a soothsayer inside it."
• 17. In France, the children place their shoes by the fireplace, a tradition dating back to when children wore wooden peasant shoes.
• 18. In the Middle Ages the term 'drab' denoted a very simple type of woollen cloth which was used by peasants to make their clothes.
• 19. The husband and wife were like czar and peasant, chairman of the board, and receptionist.
• 20. To strengthen his position in Parliament, he held talks with leaders of the Peasant Party.
• 21. His has been a peasant familly for generations.
• 22. The little peasant said to him, "I set you free from the closet, set me free from the barrel."
• 23. The small peasant was brought before the mayor, and bidden to say from whence his wealth came.
• 24. The peasant pinched the raven's head, so that he croaked and made a noise like krr, krr.
• 25. The peasant did everything that he had been told to do.
• 26. They advised the peasants on how to use the machine.
• 27. When he went in with his dish, the peasant nudged his wife, and said: "Grete, that is the second."
• 28. My father is a peasant.
• 29. She is a mad peasant woman.
• 30. The peasant said, "If you will get in, you will be mayor."
• 31. The recent popular uprising was led by a peasant's son.
• 32. The peasants looked upon him as a specialist.
• 33. The peasant, however, made off next morning by daybreak with the three hundred talers.
• 34. His second wife was a Latvian peasant maid.
• 35. The peasant did not require to be invited twice, but got up and ate.
• 36. The peasant in Chad sows his millet first, and it is hard to criticize this instinctive priority given to his daily bread.
• 37. Peasants leave the land but not their home to develop rural enterprises.
• 38. Eggs were often wrapped in gold leaf, or if you were a peasant, colored brightly by boiling them with the leaves or petals of certain flowers.
• 39. Peasants still had to pay the rent despite all of the damage inflicted by the storm.
• 40. He was a peasant in his early years.
• 41. Members of poor peasant families spun or wove cloth and linens at home for scant remuneration in an attempt to supplement meager family income.
• 42. The miller saw the peasant lying on the straw, and asked, "What is that fellow doing there?"
• 43. The entire village was dead, and the small peasant, as sole heir, became a rich man.
• 44. That forced peasant farmers to try to eke a living off steep hillsides.
• 45. Economic reform has brought relative wealth to peasant farmers.
• 46. The little peasant said, "Oh, but I must have my beast back again."
• 47. The peasants store up the grain against famine.
• 48. Thousands of impoverished peasants are desperate to move to the cities.
• 49. The peasants depend on a good harvest for their very existence.
• 50. The peasants rose in revolt.
• 51. The owner is making huge profits at the expense of downtrodden peasants.
• 52. The peasants arose against their masters.
• 53. In the old society, the peasants were ground by poverty.
• 54. The most interesting ones were outstanding men who were unwilling to accept the meek and passive role of the peasant.
• 55. They seized the land and distributed it among the peasants.