tenant farmer
Example Sentences
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The son of a tenant farmer, Walker and his family worried that an injury in his senior year could jeopardize his professional career and the millions of dollars awaiting him there.
From Slate • Nov. 6, 2022
Ian O'Connor, a tenant farmer in Carmarthenshire, pointed to the impact of Welsh government policies on rural communities.
From BBC • Oct. 17, 2022
The hall featured a wooden cotton planter used by a South Carolina tenant farmer.
From New York Times • Nov. 25, 2021
In April 1930, as the Great Depression descended, a White tenant farmer named Drew Farlow hired George Hughes to work his rented farm in Luella, about seven miles from Sherman.
From Washington Post • Jun. 3, 2021
She was the wife of a tenant farmer; the farm, an especially windswept and lonesome one, was halfway between Garden City and Holcomb.
From "In Cold Blood" by Truman Capote
