How to Use farmer in a Sentence

farmer

noun
  • My uncle has been a farmer for 60 years.
  • And this farmer brought her a glass of milk.
    — Lesley Stahl, CBS News, 16 Feb. 2026
  • The farmer urged him to place a flag on top.
    — Rebecca Mead, New Yorker, 9 Feb. 2026
  • So do many farmers around here.
    — Arkansas Online, 17 Mar. 2026
  • Would farmers stick around that long?
    — Dev Patnaik, Forbes.com, 2 Sep. 2025
  • But that’s not what most farmers want.
    — Preston Fore, Fortune, 27 Sep. 2025
  • For us as farmers that 37 is too much.
    — Anderson Cooper, CBS News, 23 Feb. 2026
  • The mill has supplied feed to farmers across the area.
    — John Lauritsen, CBS News, 7 Apr. 2026
  • The farmer manages a male-only herd of sheep.
    — Lisa Gutierrez march 13, Kansas City Star, 13 Mar. 2026
  • But even so, some farmers are electing to sit out a year.
    — John Lauritsen, CBS News, 21 Apr. 2026
  • But the picture is mixed for farmers.
    — Jonathan M. Gitlin, ArsTechnica, 28 Apr. 2026
  • Across the state, the cold snaps have done a number on farmers.
    — Chris Hoffman, CBS News, 12 May 2026
  • Just ask a farmer who's about start up planting season.
    — Chris Tye, CBS News, 23 Mar. 2026
  • That's just part of the list of challenges for farmers this year.
    — Alan Gionet, CBS News, 3 Apr. 2026
  • Roger Neshem is a farmer who grows grains and row crops in Berthold.
    — Doug Struck, The Christian Science Monitor, 18 Aug. 2021
  • Think dairy farmers adding spices to cheese to turn it more yellow.
    — Alina Selyukh, NPR, 8 Sep. 2025
  • These chile farmers know the challenges first-hand.
    — Kamala Thiagarajan, NPR, 19 Apr. 2026
  • This simple pie lets farmer's market berries shine.
    — Kimberly Holland, Southern Living, 9 Mar. 2026
  • The typical farmer's meal was pane e cipolle -- bread and onions.
    — Silvia Marchetti, CNN, 8 Oct. 2022
  • Hurt by the war in Iran and war on trade, will farmers still vote red?
    — Marc Short, Washington Post, 1 June 2026
  • Of course, that requires help from farmers.
    — Jake Goodrick, Sacbee.com, 4 Sep. 2025
  • This isn’t a failure of farmers.
    — Dinesh Phuyal, The Conversation, 26 Jan. 2026
  • First, the cotton was picked and cleaned by the farmer, just like our apple.
    — Emily Baron Cadloff, Smithsonian Magazine, 24 Aug. 2022
  • Ivek was a farmer, a part-time schoolteacher, and one of the bus drivers.
    — Louise Erdrich, The New Yorker, 21 Nov. 2022
  • Could farmers lose a key customer?
    — Joey Garrison, USA Today, 25 Oct. 2025
  • What else was a dairy farmer to do but move his family and open an ice cream shop?
    — Tara Massouleh McCay, Southern Living, 27 Feb. 2025
  • Make that jam or soap or spaghetti sauce and sell it at a booth at a farmer’s market.
    — Phil Blair, San Diego Union-Tribune, 24 Jan. 2022
  • Barnes hails from a long line of Missouri farmers.
    — Lisa Gutierrez march 13, Kansas City Star, 13 Mar. 2026
  • Coia is also a cannabis farmer in Colorado.
    — Miami Herald, 7 Nov. 2025
  • All the farmers come and bring me the produce that is freshest to use.
    — Betsy Cribb Watson, Southern Living, 10 Apr. 2026

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