Example sentences for: agrarian

How can you use “agrarian” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • That is because long before it became a popular name for a resident of Boston, warlike tribes had used Beaneaters as a derisive epithet for peace-loving agrarian Indians.

  • Lately he's supported agrarian reform in Brazil, and last March he visited the Mexican jungle to express his solidarity with the Chiapas rebels.

  • Directed in plain style by Jonathan Frakes (who also appears as the Enterprise's second-in-command, Riker), this is probably the closest the movies have come to a TV episode--one of the ones in which the Enterprise crew beams down to an idyllic agrarian planet where people knead dough and dress like Stevie Nicks and where the Captain falls in love with a headstrong woman and has impassioned debates about the Prime Directive before the phasers and the photon torpedos come out and things blow up real good.

  • He's neither immune to the professor's charm nor untroubled by what the professor says about the Northern agenda: "a culture war in which Yankees imposed their imperialist and capitalist will on the agrarian South, just as they had done to the Irish and Scots."

  • Thus, the title becomes equally appropriate as an umbrella for Anna's story, its consequences on her contemporaries, and the novel's preoccupation with the agrarian defection from that society of (Tolstoy's stand-in) Levin.


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