How to Use sharecropper in a Sentence

sharecropper

noun
  • At the time, there was a sharecroppers hut where the hay barn now rests.
    — Théoden Janes, charlotteobserver, 5 Feb. 2018
  • The men took the sharecropper out of the car, hanged him from a tree and shot him.
    — Vanessa Gregory, New York Times, 25 Apr. 2018
  • The black workers seen in the film are sharecroppers, not slaves.
    — Kyle Smith, National Review, 30 Aug. 2017
  • Head was not born when her father, then a sharecropper, was in the Tuskegee Study.
    — al, 24 Feb. 2021
  • The next aircraft carrier to be built will be named for the grandson of slaves and a son of sharecroppers.
    — CBS News, 19 Jan. 2020
  • That meant that nearly a million tenant farmers and sharecroppers got kicked off the land.
    — Meg Jacobs, Foreign Affairs, 8 Dec. 2020
  • In the late 1940s she was accused, with her two sons, of killing a white sharecropper.
    — Scott Reyburn, New York Times, 15 Nov. 2019
  • The daughter of sharecroppers, she was raised by her grandparents.
    — Arkansas Online, 13 Sep. 2025
  • If the sharecroppers were paid with actual money, the juke joint would have been profitable.
    — Adam Serwer, The Atlantic, 2 May 2025
  • One hundred and sixty acres of land, and my grandfather was a sharecropper.
    — Chevaz Clarke, CBS News, 12 Aug. 2020
  • Yet the sharecropper’s eighth child always saw herself as a tourist in the realm of affluence, even with cash on hand.
    — The New Yorker, 18 Apr. 2022
  • The brazen lynching of the four sharecroppers horrified the country that year.
    — Washington Post, 27 Feb. 2018
  • Smaller farmers and sharecroppers did not share in the benefits to the same extent.
    — Surupa Gupta, Foreign Affairs, 3 Mar. 2021
  • The granddaughter of a sharecropper who never learned to read, Hall read for a living.
    — Washington Post, 8 Dec. 2020
  • An 18-year-old sharecropper named Willie Reed was out walking by the barn when a truck turned in.
    — Jim Axelrod, CBS News, 1 Dec. 2024
  • My mom was the child of sharecroppers in Mississippi.
    — Nikki McCann Ramirez, Rolling Stone, 21 Oct. 2025
  • As the children of sharecroppers, Ruby’s parents had to leave school to help their parents in the fields.
    — Lynsey Eidell, PEOPLE, 14 Nov. 2025
  • His father was a sharecropper who went on to work in steel mills first in the South and later in the Midwest.
    — Darcel Rockett, chicagotribune.com, 13 Oct. 2021
  • Born in Waco, Texas, Miller was the grandson of slaves and the son of sharecroppers.
    — The View, ABC News, 11 Feb. 2020
  • But to those sharecropper's kids picking cotton, that place seemed like the Taj Mahal.
    — CBS News, 23 Dec. 2019
  • The sharecroppers started meeting in churches to collect fees and dues for a lawyer and to organize.
    — Lateshia Beachum, Washington Post, 30 Aug. 2019
  • Nill said his grandfather was a sharecropper on the Crescent Rim.
    — Angela Palermo, Idaho Statesman, 9 May 2024
  • Blige plays the role of Florence Jackson, a mother and sharecropper’s wife.
    — Washington Post, 11 Dec. 2017
  • Rollins, the son of a south Georgia tobacco sharecropper, was in college.
    — Max Blau, ProPublica, 22 Sep. 2020
  • The wealth of Mansa Musa is hidden beneath the sharecropper’s poverty.
    — Solomon Jones, Philly.com, 4 July 2017
  • Pride was raised in Sledge, Mississippi, the son of a sharecropper.
    — CBS News, 13 Dec. 2020
  • The second looked at life among migrant workers, sharecroppers and others dwelling in mountain areas.
    — ABC News, 7 June 2026
  • Growing up in Harlem, Quié idolized Gabriel, the son of sharecroppers and one of twenty kids.
    — Zach Helfand, New Yorker, 20 Apr. 2026
  • In the north, Louisiana also had sharecroppers and still has cotton fields.
    — Christine Ochefu, Condé Nast Traveler, 11 Mar. 2026
  • The man he was named after — a sharecropper named Bill Curl — was Hawkins' great-great-grandfather.
    — CBS News, 5 May 2021

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