How to Use tenant farmer in a Sentence

tenant farmer

noun
  • His son farmed the land for many years, then a tenant farmer did.
    — WSJ, 24 Oct. 2021
  • That leaves poor tenant farmers mired in debt, with no means to invest.
    — The Economist, 12 Oct. 2017
  • Poor white tenant farmers battle fierce odds to make a living on a Texas plot.
    — Los Angeles Times, 30 Aug. 2019
  • By the war, half of Japan’s arable land was worked by tenant farmers, and rent was never less than half the crop.
    — The Economist, 12 Oct. 2017
  • The land trust will continue to rent the rest of the property to tenant farmers.
    — Paul Rogers, The Mercury News, 13 Aug. 2024
  • That meant that nearly a million tenant farmers and sharecroppers got kicked off the land.
    — Meg Jacobs, Foreign Affairs, 8 Dec. 2020
  • His father, a local tenant farmer, was among those executed in vengeance.
    — Ségolène Le Stradic, New York Times, 5 June 2024
  • The hall featured a wooden cotton planter used by a South Carolina tenant farmer.
    — New York Times, 25 Nov. 2021
  • One reason that socialism thrived there was the appalling exploitation of these tenant farmers.
    — Trevor Paulhus, Smithsonian, 19 Sep. 2019
  • That land was worked productively by tenant farmers, who produced value through their labor.
    — Tim O'Reilly, Quartz, 17 July 2019
  • The trust says scones are its best selling dish, with more than 3 million sold each year and many of the ingredients sourced from their tenant farmers.
    — Adela Suliman, Washington Post, 1 Mar. 2023
  • Buyers offered rock-bottom prices for cotton, and tenant farmers had no choice but to sell, and mortgage the next year’s crop, to keep going.
    — Trevor Paulhus, Smithsonian, 19 Sep. 2019
  • For the most part, India's rural landless are day laborers and tenant farmers.
    — Tim Hanstad, Foreign Affairs, 19 Feb. 2013
  • This economic bondage, called sharecropping, was a system by which tenant farmers rented land from large landowners.
    — David Cason, The Conversation, 7 Mar. 2025
  • In the rural south, sharecroppers and tenant farmers, who lived in appalling conditions, struggled for fair treatment and wages.
    — Larry Bleiberg, USA TODAY, 25 Feb. 2020
  • That was a barrier for tenant farmers who earned an average of less than $100 a year, Flynt wrote.
    — Mike Cason | [email protected], al, 4 Dec. 2019
  • King also takes exception to the notion that the blues were named after the sadness of tenant farmers and sharecroppers in the Delta.
    — Kara Martinez Bachman, NOLA.com, 18 Oct. 2017
  • The Carters were the only white family in Archery, and his playmates were the children of Black tenant farmers.
    — Lawrence Wright, The New Yorker, 29 Dec. 2024
  • Playing alongside Clarence Muse, who portrays a tenant farmer, Fetchit was cast as the clichéd buffoon, lazy and happy-go-lucky.
    — Literary Hub, 25 Mar. 2026
  • When the Army Corps approached them, Tomas had long ceased working the land himself, instead renting it out to tenant farmers.
    — T. Christian Miller, Propublica, Kiah Collier and Julian Aguilar, star-telegram, 14 Dec. 2017
  • New York passed the first anti-mask law in 1845 in response to a tenant farmer rebellion that turned violent.
    — Jessie Balmert, The Enquirer, 15 May 2024
  • The Pipers still farm beets and wheat on the land, but modern machinery long ago made obsolete the tenant farmers who once occupied dozens of cottages there.
    — Nancy Hass Mikael Olsson, New York Times, 11 Aug. 2023
  • Its last full renovation was during the reign of William and Mary, and when his stepmother bought it from a tenant farmer, there was no central heating.
    — New York Times, 16 Mar. 2021
  • The property, with a likely array of tenant farmers, provided income for the officer, who could live there during his service.
    — J.s. Marcus, WSJ, 18 Oct. 2017
  • Herb continued to learn his trade as a tenant farmer on several different properties in Kane County.
    — Denise Crosby, Chicago Tribune, 13 Feb. 2025
  • Large tracts such as Brown’s Inheritance were often inhabited by tenant farmers who worked the land for owners who lived elsewhere.
    — Mary Ann Ashcraft, Baltimore Sun, 23 Mar. 2024
  • The new bill in parliament aims to claw back some of that land by expanding community ownership and giving more power to tenant farmers and smaller landholders.
    — Robert Ormerod, New York Times, 26 Feb. 2025
  • The traumatized men told of their efforts to organize a union of Black sharecroppers and tenant farmers to gain economic independence.
    — Christmaelle Vernet & Kathy Roberts Forde / Made By History, TIME, 28 Feb. 2025
  • Set in the Bangladeshi countryside during a pre-digital era, the film centers on Sadu, an impoverished tenant farmer who lives in isolation with his volatile wife.
    — Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 8 May 2026
  • The percentage of sharecroppers and tenant farmers tripled, until nearly one family in three was reduced to peonage, working for someone else—working just to live.
    — Kevin Baker, Harper's magazine, 10 May 2019

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