Example sentences for: farmed

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

  • So we learn that baby Jane drank from her mother's breast (before being farmed out to a nurse with the eye-catchingly contemporary name of Movie); that, while growing up, she may have tasted spicy Indian condiments shipped to Hampshire by her Uncle Tysoe Saul Hancock, who was stationed in Calcutta with the East India Co.; and that she probably began to menstruate at the age of 15 or 16.

  • The proprietorial use of the adjective Tasmanian — found in compounds like Tasmanian kingfish, Tasmanian pink-eye (a potato), Tasmanian scallop (the shellfish, not, as in New South Wales, a slice of fried potato), and Tasmanian red (an apple)—plays on an ostensible difference in the island produce, as does the much more audacious hijacking of Atlantic in Tasmanian Atlantic salmon (farmed Tasmanian salmon).

  • In the contemporary world of contractors, subcontractors, and complicated sourcing decisions, assembly is usually the step in the manufacturing process that is farmed out to lower-cost firms.

  • They lived in thatched houses, hunted and farmed, and worked ceramics and textiles with great skill.

  • The people farmed and fished; on the dawning of the Bronze Age in 2700 b.c. , they began to work with metals.


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