How to Use field hand in a Sentence

field hand

noun
  • At that point, many field hands crossed the border and stayed for good — aging with each successive crop.
    — Miriam Jordan Adam Perez, New York Times, 5 Dec. 2023
  • The field hands who work there will earn wages well above what’s standard for this rural area of Portugal.
    — Sara Miller Llana, The Christian Science Monitor, 22 Apr. 2024
  • Present-day homes include grand farm estates as well as more modest field hand houses turned residential homes.
    — Christina Tkacik, baltimoresun.com, 19 Aug. 2021
  • Instead, Bennett enlisted the help of two field hands to hold the mother on a wooden table.
    — Scott Lafee, San Diego Union-Tribune, 13 Jan. 2026
  • At that time, Mexicans were largely excluded from jobs other than working as field hands.
    — Erin Stone, azcentral, 31 Dec. 2019
  • The mobs were out to break a monthlong strike by sugar plantation field hands, many of them ex-slaves, in the era following the American civil war.
    — Washington Post, 17 May 2018
  • Decades ago, as the mechanization of agriculture wiped out the need for field hands, many black residents migrated north for factory jobs.
    — Author: Richard Fausset, Anchorage Daily News, 29 Mar. 2018
  • The journey from seed to plate is uncertain—drought, pests, predators, limited cash, too much rain, and too few field hands willing to work sticky-hot summers from sunup to sundown.
    — Eric Velasco, al, 13 Aug. 2019
  • Working as a field hand, without access to a Quran, ibn Sori took to tracing Arabic letters in the sand – a link to his home, faith and culture.
    — Leila Tarakji, The Conversation, 17 June 2026
  • It is populated by the private investors who have poured funding into it, along with staff, field hands, and scientists; her employer is an officious, sometimes violent man.
    — Mayukh Sen, The New Republic, 19 Oct. 2023
  • Unlike heroin, cocaine or marijuana, the distributor explained, fentanyl didn’t require farmland, crops, sunshine, rain or field hands.
    — Alex W. Palmer, New York Times, 17 Oct. 2019
  • According to Encyclopedia Britannica, she was forced to work from a young age, alternatively acting as a nursemaid, a field hand, a cook and a woodcutter.
    — Isis Davis-Marks, Smithsonian Magazine, 22 Apr. 2021
  • By the American Civil War, nearly four million slaves in all toiled in the southern states, and about a million lived as servants in mansions and as field hands on large plantations with 50 slaves or more.
    — Robert E. May, The Conversation, 12 Dec. 2019
  • Her empathetic portraits of African-American field hands shine a light on a system of peonage that predated and outlasted the 1930s.
    — New York Times, 12 Mar. 2020
  • And now, so do UPS drivers, and postal workers, and agricultural field hands, and hospital orderlies, and a whole range of people whose jobs require them to continue to work with others despite the dangers and lockdowns.
    — Peter Grier, The Christian Science Monitor, 28 Apr. 2020

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