tenant farmer

Example Sentences

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By the start of the 20th century it was almost derelict, with a tenant farmer living in one wing and his chickens and livestock in another.

From New York Times

Buckinghamshire tenant farmer Daniel Hares said he had lost the wheat equivalent of 9,000 loaves of bread, worth about £1,000 and seen the busiest footpath on his farm widen dramatically.

From BBC

Predictably, her story became one of class struggle under Mao, said Ms. Luo, with Yang Asha fleeing a landlord sun for a moon depicted as a heroic laborer or tenant farmer.

From New York Times

Meanwhile, in the abandoned fields of the Southern Delta from Arkansas to Mississippi, groups like the Southern Tenant Farmers Union pioneered the dangerous work of organizing Black and white tenant farmers and sharecroppers.

From Salon

“We don’t actually even know who lived here. We think it was probably just a tenant farmer who built the house.”

From Washington Post