Example sentences for: peasant

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

  • One of the most delightful is the Kurashiki Mingeikan folk art museum, displaying not only Japanese, Korean, and Chinese pottery, glassware, textiles, and bamboo-ware, but also Native American and European peasant ceramics and basketry with which to compare the Asian art.

  • This other dress was a "multicolored peasant dress" (according to the New York Post ), purchased for not much money on Martha's Vineyard ( Time ), that might not exist at all (according to Newsweek Washington bureau chief Ann McDaniel) or really be a long T-shirt (William Ginsburg to Barbara Walters on ABC's 20/20 ).

  • (I half expected it to flatten some poor Tolstoyesque peasant.)

  • Landowners bringing in cheap migrant day-labor faced mounting peasant resentment.

  • A last ditch defense effort to portray MaîtreCrèche as a peasant ignorant of France's tough laws on the use of such expressions backfired when the prosecution unveiled a book found in the defendant's office entitled 108 Franglaish Expressions That Can Get You Put in Jail If You Use Them In This Country.


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