How to Use peasant in a Sentence

peasant

noun
  • They treated us like a bunch of peasants.
  • Stazhadze had grown up a peasant, sent to work in a prince’s kitchens as a boy.
    — Washington Post, 28 Oct. 2021
  • Small wonder that the peasants drew on his ideas for their cause.
    — Literary Hub, 25 Sep. 2025
  • For all their hard work, peasants had a fair amount of downtime.
    — Bobbi Sutherland, The Conversation, 19 Dec. 2025
  • The peasant girl who brought it to him enriched the soup with a raw egg.
    — Bill St. John, The Denver Post, 14 Apr. 2020
  • Pair them with boots, peasant tops, lightweight sweaters, and more.
    — Mariana Best, Better Homes & Gardens, 7 Feb. 2026
  • Those are the words of a king who is being challenged by a peasant.
    — Philip Bump, Washington Post, 2 June 2017
  • Rigu grew up the son of peasants in a maize farm north of Nairobi.
    — Marcello Rossi, Smithsonian, 12 Feb. 2018
  • Rumor has it that, in medieval times, peasants downed it to ward off the plague.
    — Elise Taylor, Vogue, 11 June 2018
  • This meant people on foot—peasants, in other words.
    — Byron Hurd, The Drive, 26 Feb. 2026
  • Both were the children of peasant farmers and had grown up in homes made of adobe and sticks.
    — Caitlin Dickerson, The Atlantic, 3 Mar. 2026
  • The peasant knows less and less when to sow [and] less and less land becomes available.
    — Jacqueline Charles, miamiherald, 9 Sep. 2017
  • That means dressing up as a knight, king, queen, lord or lady, maybe even a peasant or fairy.
    — Ashley Mahoney, Axios, 2 Oct. 2024
  • The film opens on a peasant couple summoning their son from a farm field.
    — Paige Williams, The New Yorker, 10 Feb. 2025
  • Between them sat a peasant with matted hair and a padded coat over his shoulders.
    — Cassandra Neyenesch, New Yorker, 29 Mar. 2026
  • The peasants were willing to take up arms to secure their freedom.
    — Michael Bruening, The Conversation, 25 Feb. 2025
  • Let the peasants squabble amongst themselves about the refs and how unfair life is.
    — Pete Grathoff, Kansas City Star, 13 Feb. 2026
  • The piece is an awesome pink peasant top with allover embroidery.
    — Avery Matera, Teen Vogue, 8 Mar. 2018
  • Ma grew up as the only son of peasants in central Henan province.
    — Bill Powell, Newsweek, 26 Nov. 2014
  • The effect is not of a bull in a china shop, or of peasants storming the Bastille.
    — Sonia Saraiya, HWD, 9 May 2018
  • He had been born the son of a Swiss peasant farmer and never forgot the pains of his origins.
    — The Economist, 12 Apr. 2018
  • Just make sure those peasants the Joneses take their shoes off before walking up to your door.
    — Candace Braun Davison, House Beautiful, 21 May 2018
  • So step away from the stove, turn off the oven, and channel your inner Medieval peasant.
    — Sharon Greenthal, Better Homes & Gardens, 28 June 2023
  • Kōnane was once a national pastime, played by peasants and rulers alike.
    — Matt Negrin, Rolling Stone, 20 Sep. 2025
  • And rank-and-file workers and peasants pursued their own goals that put them at odds with activists and their agendas.
    — Kornel Chang september 19, Literary Hub, 19 Sep. 2025
  • Players take on the role of peasants who descended into the depths hoping to mine gold.
    — Gieson Cacho, The Mercury News, 20 Aug. 2019
  • Over the centuries artists have been inspired by haystacks and open windows and rotting fruit and peasant's footwear and fog.
    — Kevin Conley, Town & Country, 9 Nov. 2015
  • The reader shares Pierre’s wonder at the old peasant’s resilience.
    — Literary Hub, 9 Mar. 2026
  • In fact nobody has taken much notice of the peasant legs of Europe.
    — San Diego Union-Tribune, 21 Dec. 2021
  • The average Joe had to phone in their orders like some medieval peasant.
    — Trent Hoerr, Forbes, 10 Jan. 2025

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