How to Use collective farm in a Sentence

collective farm

noun
  • The collective farm’s crop rows stretch right up to the border, less than a kilometer away.
    — Howard Lafranchi, The Christian Science Monitor, 28 Mar. 2024
  • The state owned the nation's herd and grazing land, with herders paid a wage for working in collective farms.
    — Max Baring, The Christian Science Monitor, 3 May 2018
  • She was brought up left-wing — on a collective farm outside New York City.
    — Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 1 May 2020
  • The collective farm provided work for all in the nearby wheat fields, vineyards and orchards.
    — New York Times, 15 July 2019
  • Lukashenko, a former collective farm manager, has been in office since 1994.
    — Yuras Karmanau, Star Tribune, 26 Sep. 2020
  • These involved criticisms of collective farms and mentions of military defeats or of labor camps.
    — Robert Chandler, The New Yorker, 19 June 2019
  • Through donations of reindeer, walrus blubber, and rubles, collective farms sponsored tank convoys.
    — Bathsheba Demuth, The New Yorker, 15 Aug. 2019
  • The kolkhoz, or collective farm, that once stood in the heart of Senkivka was abandoned, graffiti on its walls warning that the building was liable to collapse.
    — Nabih Bulos, Los Angeles Times, 9 Feb. 2022
  • Her mother, who worked on a collective farm, a vineyard, had a pleasant singing voice and encouraged her gifted daughter’s singing in school choirs and local ensembles.
    — New York Times, 22 Oct. 2021
  • That life ends for Zuleikha when Red Army soldiers show up to confiscate Murtaza’s property and force him to join a collective farm.
    — Maria Danilova, The Seattle Times, 14 Jan. 2019
  • Some of the Russians and their armored vehicles were holed up in a tractor garage by the cattle pens and had stopped people from working at the collective farm, called Husarivkse.
    — New York Times, 17 Apr. 2022
  • Both of his grandfathers were peasants, collective farm chairmen and members of the Communist Party, as was his father.
    — Jim Heintz, BostonGlobe.com, 30 Aug. 2022
  • Both his grandfathers were peasants, collective farm chairmen and members of the Communist Party, as was his father.
    — The Salt Lake Tribune, 30 Aug. 2022
  • So basically, everything that everybody loves about communism but without the collective farm.
    — Heran Mamo, Billboard, 3 June 2021
  • Hamas operatives seemed to have taken over a collective farm inside Israel, taking Israelis captive.
    — Ethan Bronner, Fortune, 7 Oct. 2023
  • The federal government established a collective farm in Arizona during the New Deal.
    — Amity Shlaes, National Review, 10 Jan. 2024
  • The museum, housed in a grand villa built before the war as a summer retreat and then confiscated by Hoxha’s communists, closed decades ago, along with the clinic and the collective farm.
    — New York Times, 16 Aug. 2021
  • The irony of this too-smooth federal segue from collective farm to concentration camp was not lost on some observers, including historian Robert Asahina.
    — Amity Shlaes, National Review, 10 Jan. 2024
  • Lukashenko, a former collective farm manager, has held power since then through flawed elections, jailing opponents and critics, blocking rivals from contesting elections and harsh crackdowns on protests.
    — Robyn Dixon, Washington Post, 29 Aug. 2020
  • Their president has been in power for more than 25 years, ever since the Soviet Union fell, and his prior job was managing a socialist collective farm.
    — Danielle Wallace, Fox News, 19 Nov. 2020
  • During Soviet times, the standard uniform for women working in factories and on collective farms included a headscarf to adhere to health and safety requirements.
    — Rosemary Feitelberg, Footwear News, 4 June 2026
  • Of course people weren’t staring at their phones in the 1920s, but the posters were plastered everywhere — at work and on collective farms, in train and trolley stations, on the walls of storefronts and apartment buildings.
    — Anne Tschida, miamiherald, 22 June 2018
  • Onishchenko's father was a truck driver on a Soviet-era collective farm in 1991, when the Soviet Union collapsed.
    — Sabra Ayres, latimes.com, 16 Mar. 2018
  • Aiming to feed a growing urban work force and increase exports, Stalin’s henchmen forced peasants onto collective farms and eliminated relatively well-off peasants known as kulaks.
    — Mark Atwood Lawrence, New York Times, 19 Oct. 2017
  • The Soviet authorities also forced the Kazakh nomads to settle in collective farms, destroying their traditional way of life.
    — J. Eugene Clay, The Conversation, 20 Sep. 2022
  • Underneath the plot about wealthy peasants (known as kulaks) fighting to undermine a collective farm is beautiful imagery of Ukrainian nature and the unique qualities of Ukrainian folk culture.
    — Joshua First, The Atlantic, 3 Mar. 2022
  • After the fall of communism, Romania divided its agricultural land between former collective farms (transformed into private companies) and the people who had worked on them.
    — The Economist, 23 Jan. 2020
  • In 2015, however, South Korea’s spy agency speculated that he was briefly banished to a rural collective farm for reeducation.
    — Hyung-Jin Kim, The Seattle Times, 12 Apr. 2019
  • The decollectivization of labor-intensive former Soviet farm enterprises has hollowed out the countryside, with young people abandoning former collective farms en masse for city life.
    — Fred Weir, Christian Science Monitor, 25 June 2026
  • Rena Gluck’s company visited theaters, village squares and kibbutz collective farms with modern dance performances built around Graham’s percussive and muscular techniques of form and flow.
    — Brian Murphy, Washington Post, 26 Feb. 2023

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