peasants
Example Sentences
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A teenager draws his slingshot, while fighters holding prayer beads take control of a Soviet tank, and peasants clutching pitchforks face Soviet soldiers.
From Barron's ● Jan. 22, 2026
The late French queen is best known for her supposedly callous, clueless, privileged suggestion that if the peasants couldn’t get enough bread, they should eat cake instead.
From MarketWatch ● Jan. 2, 2026
When the Song dynasty took over China in the late 10th century, the feudal system that gave aristocrats control of land and peasants in return for military service was breaking down.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 29, 2025
I went there, I learned to love the peasants, the bombing shocked my psyche and soul to the core, and I responded — not because I was hopeful or hopeless, but because I was alive.”
From Salon ● Nov. 17, 2024
Maybe they had lost their homes, the peasants tried to console themselves, but at least they had their goats and their black, low-slung Creole pigs.
From "Mountains Beyond Mountains" by Tracy Kidder and Michael French
