How to Use peasant in a Sentence

peasant

noun
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  • Here the rain is the peasant's god and the driver's curse.
    — Cnt Editors, Condé Nast Traveler, 17 Nov. 2022
  • The peasant girl who brought it to him enriched the soup with a raw egg.
    — Bill St. John, The Denver Post, 14 Apr. 2020
  • Stazhadze had grown up a peasant, sent to work in a prince’s kitchens as a boy.
    — Washington Post, 28 Oct. 2021
  • In gratitude, Death grants the peasant the ability to cure the sick.
    — John Hopewell, Variety, 1 Nov. 2021
  • Here’s the twist: this peasant dish won’t win a beauty contest.
    — Rita Nader Heikenfeld, The Enquirer, 11 Nov. 2022
  • In the rougher south they were divinely seized peasants.
    — Cynthia Ozick, Harper’s Magazine , 10 Apr. 2023
  • So step away from the stove, turn off the oven, and channel your inner Medieval peasant.
    — Sharon Greenthal, Better Homes & Gardens, 28 June 2023
  • His mother, who ran the store, raised two kids in America but was, in her heart, a peasant from the shtetl.
    — Charles McGrath, New York Times, 5 Mar. 2020
  • Set in the Chilean countryside, the film tells the story of a peasant who asks the devil to grant him a wish beneath a full moon.
    — Christopher Vourlias, Variety, 26 Jan. 2022
  • Cherry clafoutis is a simple peasant dessert from the Limousin region in France.
    — Washington Post, 7 July 2021
  • The show is about Ti Moune, a fearless peasant girl searching for her place in the world, guided by island gods.
    — San Diego Union-Tribune, 23 June 2021
  • The film turns on a peasant in the Chilean countryside who makes a deal with the devil to disastrous effects.
    — Christopher Vourlias, Variety, 25 Jan. 2022
  • If the family was among the winners of the era, the losers included the peasants displaced to make way for grazing land.
    — Allan Massie, wsj.com, 14 Apr. 2023
  • Even though the book describes the rough treatment of peasant women, the major theme is the corruption that wealth brings.
    — Beth Thames | Bethmthames@gmail.com, al, 9 Feb. 2022
  • Caught between the collapse of wages and the loss of land, peasants rioted across Europe.
    — Silvia Federici, Scientific American, 17 Apr. 2023
  • In fact nobody has taken much notice of the peasant legs of Europe.
    — San Diego Union-Tribune, 21 Dec. 2021
  • The tech giants are the lords, while everyone else is a peasant, working their land for not much in return.
    — Morgan Meaker, WIRED, 9 Apr. 2024
  • In photos snapped of their outing, Del Rey wore denim shorts and a peasant top, while Larkin again sported jeans and a tee.
    — Ashley Boucher, PEOPLE.com, 16 Dec. 2019
  • The Romanovs has ruled Russia with a bloody iron first for more than 300 years, while living in opulence the peasants of the land could hardly dream of.
    — Laura Demarco, cleveland, 6 Feb. 2020
  • But what if that beautiful peasant was a man instead of a woman?
    — David Oliver, USA Today, 25 May 2021
  • Stepan was given land and became village chief and a kulak, or rich peasant farmer.
    — Washington Post, 9 May 2021
  • Comedy is the peasant’s revenge on the king; laughter is man’s revenge on God.
    — Adam Gopnik, The New Yorker, 13 Mar. 2022
  • All the peasant flavors packed into a posh prep that sings, its razor-thin slices racked up like a dealer’s chips in Monaco.
    — Amy Drew Thompson, Orlando Sentinel, 28 Apr. 2022
  • First up, the traditional: In this ancient peasant dish, the meat is chopped into small pieces, cooked on low with vinegar and marsala.
    — Janelle Davis, CNN, 8 May 2022
  • Eating on a bare table was once something only a peasant would do.
    — Amy Azzarito, Smithsonian Magazine, 3 Apr. 2020
  • The woman in the scene, dressed like her partner in peasant garb, is ensuring that the yellow cloth holding the basket in place is secure.
    — Judith H. Dobrzynski, WSJ, 4 June 2021
  • His wish is granted, the body appearing on the grounds of the mansion that rules over the peasant’s feudal community.
    — Anna Marie De La Fuente, Variety, 22 Feb. 2023
  • But, as every peasant in the Andes knows, frost is not, since cold air funnels into valleys.
    — Edward Lotterman, Twin Cities, 8 Sep. 2019
  • This shift produced a stream of peasant refugees, who could then be pressed into the further service of property.
    — Rana Dasgupta, Harper's Magazine, 24 Nov. 2020
  • Menudo is the ultimate peasant dish, made with the once undesired offal meat of a butchered animal.
    — Sarah Mosqueda, Los Angeles Times, 3 Mar. 2024

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