Example sentences for: peasants

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

  • "Develop a magazine to be written and published by Guatemalan peasants for 9 cents a day."

  • Also, a photo essay by Sebastiao Salgado depicts Brazil's landless peasants.

  • During war and peace alike in this feudal age, the Church and the aristocracy continued to claim their respective portions of the peasants’ labor, leaving barely enough for subsistence.

  • But "this ecological catastrophe--for it is an immense one--is above all the result of a misguided government policy," in effect since the early 1970s when a military dictatorship was in power, that sought to populate the Amazonian forest with poor peasants from northeastern Brazil.

  • (Aristocrats are not part of the peasants' reference group.)


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