How to Use farmhand in a Sentence

farmhand

noun
  • Her husband and the farmhands keep that in mind.
    — Doug Ross, Chicago Tribune, 30 Jan. 2026
  • But even a small amount of gold could make the poor farmhands who rushed west feel wealthy.
    — Andre Byik, USA Today, 10 Nov. 2025
  • Ploughs would halt in the middle of a field; farmhands would stand still and pray.
    — The Economist, 18 Dec. 2019
  • It’s been a big week for some of the Yankees’ top farmhands.
    — Gary Phillips, New York Daily News, 30 Apr. 2026
  • Scott's main function at this point in his life … is to be the farmhand.
    — Susan Mallie, CBS News, 26 Apr. 2025
  • But the value the three farmhands provide remains to be seen.
    — Jacob Calvin Meyer, Baltimore Sun, 3 Sep. 2023
  • Some are here to find work — from farmhands to engineers to doctors.
    — AZCentral.com, 16 Aug. 2019
  • There’s the story about the farmhand who was gored by a bull in the cornfield.
    — Liz Arnold, Longreads, 11 July 2018
  • With no cattle or money to buy seeds, his family worked as farmhands.
    — Niharika Mandhana, WSJ, 23 Nov. 2018
  • Inside one of the pens, a farmhand sat on a plastic stool, feeding the ducks.
    — Anne Kadet, WSJ, 9 July 2019
  • Any farmhands and family who are about will eat lunch with you in the farmhouse dining room.
    — Maria Gabriella Landers, Town & Country, 5 Oct. 2016
  • Blakeney, who had worked for decades as a farmhand, was once tall and muscular.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 11 Sep. 2021
  • The second building likely once served as quarters for the farmhands.
    — Shari Rudavsky, Indianapolis Star, 13 May 2017
  • Many of the city's men work as fishermen or farmhands, which leaves women to run the market.
    — Amanda Erickson, Washington Post, 8 Sep. 2017
  • How many farmhands does a team with a checkbook as thick as the Mets' really need?
    — Jackson Roberts, MSNBC Newsweek, 4 Aug. 2025
  • Late one morning, one of the farmhands explained that there was a sick goose that needed dealing with.
    — Simon Parkin, The New Yorker, 17 Oct. 2019
  • Trey Sweeney was a Dodgers farmhand for a little more than an eyeblink.
    — Steve Henson, Los Angeles Times, 3 Oct. 2024
  • Harvest was coming, and her husband was dead, killed in a work dispute with a farmhand.
    — Washington Post, 20 Oct. 2019
  • The movie gets its name from this book and follows the story of a farmhand named Westley.
    — Kori Williams, Seventeen, 29 June 2020
  • Kitted out in boots and a safari shirt, Ramsden looked more like a tourist than a farmhand.
    — Boyce Upholt, New Yorker, 14 Mar. 2026
  • Other farmhands were less circumspect.
    — Boyce Upholt, New Yorker, 14 Mar. 2026
  • When an unlucky farmhand gets bitten, the disease spreads to humans.
    — Christopher Vourlias, Variety, 27 Sep. 2025
  • The first suspect was Joe Molino, the farmhand who had fetched the doctors.
    — Paula Allen, ExpressNews.com, 21 Mar. 2020
  • The voice that had so startled me belonged to our farmhand, Heisuke, a loyal but rather slow-witted man.
    — Literary Hub, 28 May 2026
  • Cooper grew up on a farm in Nash County and knows full well the rigors of being a farmhand.
    — Nick Martin, The New Republic, 26 Oct. 2020
  • Their farmhands played a key role in its spread, said Nakamura, the federal health official.
    — Mary Beth Sheridan, CNN Money, 17 May 2026
  • So there’s been a spike in Michigan growers bringing up Mexican farmhands over the past few years.
    — Christa Case Bryant, The Christian Science Monitor, 22 June 2018
  • But what about the seven Tigers farmhands who played in the 2017 WBC?
    — Ryan Ford, Detroit Free Press, 21 Mar. 2023
  • One of his students, Doniphon’s farmhand Pompey (Woody Strode), is a black man.
    — Kyle Smith, National Review, 25 Nov. 2019
  • All three runs against the lefty were on a towering home run by former Reds farmhand Justin Turner.
    — C. Trent Rosecrans, Cincinnati.com, 18 June 2017

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