peasant

Example Sentences

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Within five years a French resurgence would gather momentum, driven by the intervention of a 17-year-old peasant girl known as Joan of Arc.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 11, 2026

In long, meandering speeches laced with peasant folklore, Museveni often appeals for more time, likening himself to a farmer leaving a plantation just as it starts bearing fruit.

From Barron's • Jan. 12, 2026

This party traces its ideological roots to a 1946 peasant uprising in the southern state of Telangana.

From BBC • May 27, 2025

The peasant class of African Americans was whom Langston Hughes affectionately called the Lowdown Folks:

From Salon • Apr. 28, 2025

She’s wearing bell-bottom pants and a peasant blouse with puffy sleeves, and she has shiny dangling earrings.

From "Lucky Broken Girl" by Ruth Behar