Peasants
in example sentence
The high rents paid to noble landlords increase their wealth and power by giving them the resources to keep the
peasants
down and widen the surplus – for, after all, they cannot make more land.
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So that's why the petitioner, the victims, the peasants, want to take the train to Beijing to petition to the central government, they want the emperor to settle the problem.
Knights waged constant war on each other by trying to kill as many of each other's
peasants
as possible.
Over time, the two merged to give us the English we know today, though the divide between lords and
peasants
can still be felt in synonym pairs such as cow and beef.
This is because Medieval society followed a feudal system that divided the clergy and nobility from the working classes, made up of
peasants
and serfs.
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