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

As he strides the fields that he knew as a boy, his shoulders slump as though he were carrying buckets of water, and he walks with the weary, plodding stride of a plowman.

From Time Magazine Archive

He girded himself and knew this would be a conflict that would extend the thresholds of his fear of his father and his cowardice before the plowman who had granted him life.

From "The Great Santini" by Pat Conroy