Example sentences for: yeoman

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

  • The yeoman, or statesman, economy thrived for some 300 years, but with the rise in automation brought by the Industrial Revolution in the late 18th century, the demand for hand-crafted goods such as cloth plummeted — machine-produced goods were more plentiful and considerably less expensive.

  • Rockefeller's flack did a yeoman's job of placing warm stories about this scourge of the corporate high seas.

  • Horwitz makes us see that the pinched circumstances of their lives are not so different from the conditions of their ancestors, dirt-poor yeoman farmers who seldom saw, much less owned, a slave.

  • The time of Bede and Beowulf were the hey-days--or ha! -days--for the letter h . Besides providing early aspiration for many words, h did yeoman service in front of the consonants l, n, r , and w .

  • Jefferson favored the rural, a nation of imaginary yeoman farmers who would eventually twirl pheasants in New Jersey.


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