tenant farmer

Example Sentences

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"He was a tenant farmer and farmed lands both here and in Charlton Mackrell. There would have been more important people than him in Barton."

From BBC • Jan. 19, 2025

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

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

Its last full renovation was during the reign of William and Mary, and when his stepmother bought it from a tenant farmer, there was no central heating.

From New York Times • Mar. 16, 2021

She felt that she never wanted to leave her parents and grandparents, and she felt that she did not want to be a tenant farmer her whole life.

From "A Place to Belong" by Cynthia Kadohata