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

He called Ibsen "a popular reasoner," Tolstoy "an active fool... an exceptional plowman."

From Time Magazine Archive

Little Walder quartered the twin towers of Frey with the brindled boar of his grandmother's House and the plowman of his mother's: Crakehall and Darry, re-spectively.

From "A Clash of Kings" by George R.R. Martin