How to Use agrarian in a Sentence

agrarian

adjective
  • Among agrarian humans, endosperm left its mark on our genomes.
    — Literary Hub, 25 Mar. 2026
  • To the city folk who sojourn there, West Marin is an agrarian idyll.
    — Leilani Marie Labong, SFChronicle.com, 21 May 2020
  • But in the agrarian villages across the water, life still moves to a timeless rhythm.
    — Jason Motlagh, Marie Claire, 18 Jan. 2018
  • Peterson had touted his work on the farm bill and trade deals that helped his agrarian district.
    — Rebecca Morin, USA TODAY, 4 Nov. 2020
  • People cut down old-growth forests to create an agrarian society.
    — Robert Thorson, Smithsonian Magazine, 14 Nov. 2023
  • The agrarian reform made little progress.
    — Roberto Andrés, The Dial, 28 May 2026
  • Garlands of oranges and their leaves ran down the center of feast tables, a homage to the culture’s agrarian roots.
    — Deborah Reid, Washington Post, 17 May 2023
  • When the country was mostly agrarian, children would help their families with farm work.
    — Henry Gass, The Christian Science Monitor, 6 June 2023
  • But your mission statement is that the only viable future is agrarian.
    — Mikey O'Connell, HollywoodReporter, 22 Apr. 2026
  • Amish communities are agrarian, with no modern farm equipment, meaning all the work has to be done by hand.
    — Jeffrey Kluger, Time, 15 Feb. 2018
  • His agrarian aptitude makes the man eager to expand.
    — David Rooney, HollywoodReporter, 15 Feb. 2026
  • The program pays homage to the county’s agrarian history by installing 8-foot square quilt blocks on scenic barns.
    — Sherry Greenfield, Baltimore Sun, 25 Aug. 2023
  • This includes some of the most fertile agrarian regions in the south of the country, which is a key supplier of grain to the world.
    — Yuliya Talmazan, NBC news, 28 Apr. 2026
  • And all of them encourage kids to do, and take responsibility for, tasks that are part of our agrarian past.
    — Anne Schamberg, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 3 July 2018
  • If your grandma likes to garden, get her this agrarian tool basket from Williams Sonoma.
    — Enjanae' Taylor, Southern Living, 7 Nov. 2023
  • At the same time, a reappraisal of Puerto Rico’s agrarian past is taking place.
    — Moises Velasquez-Manoff, New York Times, 8 Nov. 2022
  • At various hearings, it has also been described as an agrarian retreat, a wellness hub, and even a camp.
    — Jonathan Butler, Air Mail, 13 June 2026
  • The ancient women also had a stronger upper body, which indicated their lives were spent in agrarian work.
    — Emilie Le Beau Lucchesi, Discover Magazine, 9 Feb. 2024
  • At the time of our founding the vast majority of citizens were rural and agrarian.
    — Star Tribune, 29 Oct. 2020
  • What can be done to address the risk of climate change in Myanmar, or in other rural, agrarian regions?
    — Eli Meixler / Singapore, Time, 2 Apr. 2018
  • This era saw the rise of factories and reduction in agrarian economy.
    — Ankit Pathak, Forbes.com, 11 Sep. 2025
  • Hopes for the agrarian focused market quickly slipped after regulators failed to open stores on time.
    — Wesley Parnell, Rolling Stone, 22 Mar. 2024
  • As a tribute to beer’s agrarian roots, BB set up shop on a 12-acre lot that once grew carnations.
    — Stephanie Granada, Sunset, 22 Jan. 2018
  • In agrarian societies, tied to the land and the seasons, flower crowns had great symbolic meaning.
    — Laird Borrelli-Persson, Vogue, 22 June 2018
  • Over the last four decades, South Korea has moved from a poor, largely agrarian society to one of the world’s largest economies.
    — Kelly Kasulis, Time, 26 Apr. 2018
  • In terms of scale, think of how the industrial revolution transformed the agrarian age.
    — Ed Clendaniel, The Mercury News, 20 July 2019
  • The peace accords include a deal on agrarian reform, to formalize land titles lost during the conflict.
    — Oscar Medina, Bloomberg.com, 27 July 2017
  • However, Faison does see clues in the painting about the work necessary to maintain the agrarian land.
    — Livia Gershon, JSTOR Daily, 7 Oct. 2025
  • This could help to pull the agrarian economy out of the doldrums and generate employment for thousands of farmers.
    — Devangshu Datta, Quartz India, 30 May 2019
  • In the absence of movies, theater or sports teams, rodeo was the ascendant form of public entertainment across much of the great agrarian nation.
    — Melissa Lyttle, Smithsonian, 13 Dec. 2017

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