plowman

Example Sentences

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Nick Belles, 26, a plowman clearing commercial lots in Buffalo’s south towns, said he got a total of three hours of sleep during a three-day stretch.

From Washington Post • Nov. 22, 2022

But at the time, it was seen as very democratic, which is why you have a milkmaid poet and a plowman poet.

From Slate • Mar. 16, 2016

Boötes, the plowman, might as well be a saucepan, and Lyra, the musical instrument, looks to me like a fry basket.

From Slate • Jul. 12, 2012

By that time the plowman and his instrument were rooted in the American myth, a symbol of hard work, virtue and abundance that fed and freed most other Americans for pursuits beyond the farm.

From Time Magazine Archive

The cow that lowed, the man who milked, the chickens that came running and the woman who called them, the fragrance streaming from the plowed land and the plowman.

From "Johnny Tremain" by Esther Hoskins Forbes