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adjective

agrarian

relating to farming or agriculture

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Six example sentences with agrarian, each labelled with its topic.

  • Before the mills arrived, the valley was thoroughly agrarian, its calendar set by planting, harvest, and the autumn cattle fair.

    History

  • The country's agrarian economy left it exposed whenever grain prices fell, since three quarters of exports came from wheat.

    Economics

  • Restoring hedgerows across the agrarian lowlands brought back pollinators that had vanished when every field was plowed to its edge.

    Environment

  • The agrarian party won every rural seat by promising cheaper fertiliser and a fixed price for milk.

    Politics

  • Millet painted agrarian scenes, gleaners bent over stubble, with the same seriousness others gave to kings.

    Art

  • Jefferson's agrarian ideal held that citizens who worked their own land would be harder to corrupt than city dwellers.

    Philosophy

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