How to Use farmworker in a Sentence

farmworker

noun
  • Some have been living there for decades, and not all of them are farmworkers.
    — Richard Halstead, The Mercury News, 24 Feb. 2025
  • Still, farmworkers across the country are scared to go to work.
    — Lisa Meierotto, The Conversation, 22 June 2026
  • Many of them were farmworkers, wearing straw hats and scuffed boots.
    — Jon Lee Anderson, The New Yorker, 25 June 2012
  • No one in our household is a farmworker.
    — John Ramos, CBS News, 23 Apr. 2026
  • These fears have already led to some farmworkers not showing up to work.
    — Mathew Miranda, Sacramento Bee, 19 Jan. 2025
  • At harvest time, farmworkers slice open the pods to drain a milky white sap that is dried into a resin.
    — Craig Whitlock, Anchorage Daily News, 9 Dec. 2019
  • Dozens of area farmworkers were arrested late this spring.
    — Corey Williams, Chicago Tribune, 1 Sep. 2025
  • The farmworker saw blood on the ground and his dogs discovered the slain toddlers.
    — Steve Helling, PEOPLE.com, 11 Aug. 2021
  • Still, bird flu has become a growing concern for farmworkers on the front lines.
    — Elizabeth Robinson, NBC News, 23 Oct. 2024
  • Pajaro is home to many low-income farmworkers.
    — Farshid Vahedifard, The Conversation, 29 Dec. 2025
  • In wine country, farmworkers who toil in the vineyards were among those displaced.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 29 Oct. 2019
  • There have been at least 67 cases in people, most of whom are farmworkers.
    — Berkeley Lovelace Jr., NBC News, 26 Jan. 2025
  • Propped up on wooden platforms, the homes were an upgrade over the squalid sheds where farmworkers slept.
    — NBC News, 23 Sep. 2019
  • She was sold the American dream with a farmworker visa.
    — ProPublica, 13 Sep. 2025
  • But the farmworker hadn’t heard of the bird flu, and the clinician didn’t mention it or test for the virus.
    — Amy Maxmen, CNN, 2 Aug. 2024
  • To date three people — all farmworkers — have contracted the virus from cows.
    — Helen Branswell, STAT, 17 June 2024
  • Afterward, some of the farmworkers went to the coffee bar that was my teenage hangout.
    — Gaia Pianigiani, New York Times, 20 Feb. 2018
  • These are the communities of farmworkers that are putting food on the table.
    — Tribune News Service, The Mercury News, 16 Apr. 2024
  • The allegations stunned farmworkers across the nation, many who revered him as a hero.
    — Ian James, Los Angeles Times, 19 Mar. 2026
  • The Teamsters are cozy with the growers who employ the farmworkers.
    — Jo Thomas, Detroit Free Press, 14 Jan. 2024
  • He is joined by a few other farmworkers who converge on the gas station to cool off from the sweltering sun.
    — Jake Frederico, The Arizona Republic, 4 Sep. 2023
  • But his shattered legacy does not erase the gains women farmworkers and advocates have made on their own.
    — ABC News, 21 Mar. 2026
  • But his shattered legacy does not erase the gains female farmworkers and advocates have made on their own.
    — Arkansas Online, 23 Mar. 2026
  • And many of the state's farmworkers have been caught in the crosshairs of the potentially deadly disease.
    — Petra Cahill, NBC News, 17 June 2019
  • At the same time, the disclosures showed the farmworkers that these rich, famous women needed their help.
    — Jon Schuppe, NBC News, 1 Jan. 2018
  • This is especially important for farmworkers, who are most at risk of bird flu.
    — Brooke Baitinger, Sacbee.com, 12 Sep. 2025
  • The pushback against going after farmworkers puts the White House in a bind.
    — Anna Giaritelli, The Washington Examiner, 14 June 2025
  • The next day, both adults, seasonal farmworkers, became ill with vomiting and stayed home from work.
    — CBS News, 7 Feb. 2026
  • The next day, both adults, seasonal farmworkers, became ill with vomiting and stayed home from work.
    — Arkansas Online, 8 Feb. 2026
  • Gomez, 31, said his group speaks up for the farmworker community on behalf of those who don’t feel safe to do so.
    — Kairi Lowery, The Orlando Sentinel, 14 June 2025

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