- plural of peasant.
peasants
Example Sentences
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A teenager draws his slingshot, while fighters holding prayer beads take control of a Soviet tank, and peasants clutching pitchforks face Soviet soldiers.
From Barron's ● Jan. 22, 2026
The late French queen is best known for her supposedly callous, clueless, privileged suggestion that if the peasants couldn’t get enough bread, they should eat cake instead.
From MarketWatch ● Jan. 2, 2026
This was distinct from Europe where aristocrats lived off inherited wealth, only peasants labored manually and one’s place in society was fixed.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 12, 2025
I went there, I learned to love the peasants, the bombing shocked my psyche and soul to the core, and I responded — not because I was hopeful or hopeless, but because I was alive.”
From Salon ● Nov. 17, 2024
To Farmer, it wasn’t unlike the fate of Haitian peasants who left the central plateau and migrated to the slums of Port-au-Prince.
From "Mountains Beyond Mountains" by Tracy Kidder and Michael French
