Peasants in example sentence

The reasons were many: poor weather, pests, shortages of animal power after peasants slaughtered livestock rather than losing it to the collective, shortages of tractors, the shooting and deportation of the best farmers, and the disruption of sowing and reaping caused by collectivization itself.

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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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