field hand
Example Sentences
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He dug ditches, picked cotton and worked as a field hand.
From Washington Post • May 26, 2021
Lletget hurt his left ankle on Ever Alvarado’s tackle and was replaced in the 18th minute, and defender John Brooks was stretchered off the field, hand over his face, in the 69th due to dehydration.
From Washington Times • Mar. 25, 2017
Though the harvesters worked piece rate—paid by the box, tallied throughout the day on work tickets—growers were required by law to make sure each field hand received no less than the federal minimum wage.
From Slate • Aug. 2, 2016
One of our most prolific writers is Desiree Holt, a 76-year-old who in her time has worked as a field hand and a summer fishing guide – and was once a competitive skier.
From The Guardian • Jul. 17, 2012
She pondered over the shocking contrast between the life of a field hand in Dorchester County, Maryland, and the life she had known and enjoyed in Philadelphia and in Cape May, New Jersey.
From "Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad" by Ann Petry
