Definition: 1. An area of land, and the buildings on it, used for growing crops and/or keeping animals. 2. Workplace consisting of farm buildings and cultivated land as a unit. 3. Be a farmer; work as a farmer.
Use 'farm' in a sentence:
1. His father took over the tenancy of the farm 40 years ago.
2. His farm was high up in the hills.
3. Their ears were still attuned to the sounds of the farm machinery.
4. The children had bloomed during their stay on the farm.
5. The farm buildings form three sides of a square.
6. The farm was flooded, with the result that most of the harvest was lost.
7. Farm workers milked cows by hand.
8. The family has farmed in Kent for over two hundred years.
9. We source all the meat sold in our stores from British farms.
10. The family has farmed here for generations.
11. European agriculture ministers failed to break the deadlock over farm subsidies.
12. He feared for his mother, left alone on the farm.
13. They farm dairy cattle.
14. He left a job in the City to take up farming.
15. The farm and surrounding area was flooded.
16. Intensive farming in the area has caused severe degeneration of the land.
17. Traditionally reared animals grow more slowly than those reared under intensive farming conditions.
18. We had a delightful time talking about the olden days on his farm.
19. The land has been farmed organically since 1995.
20. The company farms out a lot of work to freelancers.
21. There's an old farm over yon hill.
22. The fruit is washed, sorted and bagged at the farm.
23. Charles knew next to nothing about farming.
24. I told you. Get off the farm.
25. Oyster beds, on the mudflats, are a form of fish farming.
26. The lane leading to the farm was in full view of the house windows.
27. The farm is only reachable by car.
28. The farm has changed over to organic methods.
29. Our farm land was adjacent to the river.
30. Suffering animals should be humanely euthanized on the farm.
31. He took charge of the farm after his father's death.
32. They farmed some of the best land in Scotland.
33. The poorness of the land makes farming impossible.
34. He hasn't got the know-how to run a farm.
35. I came to live at the farm by happenstance.
36. In 1970 the average size of a French farm was 19 hectares.
37. Modern farming methods can have an adverse effect on the environment.
38. You lived on the farm until you came back to America?
39. Rosehill Farm has been selling miniature roses since 1979.
40. There is discontent within the farming industry.
41. He is part owner of a farm in France.
42. Workmen were hired to remodel and enlarge the farm buildings.
43. She lives on a small farm in the middle of nowhere.
44. It's a lovely old farm.
45. He has lived and farmed in the area for 46 years.
46. The smell from the farm offended some people.
47. The farm became snowbound.
48. He farmed 200 acres of prime arable land.
49. They live on a farm somewhere out in the wilds.
50. They now own and operate a farm 50 miles south of Rochester.
51. Whose is that farm over yonder?
52. Changes in farming methods have badly affected employment in the area.
53. Raising animals was only secondary to other forms of farming.
