How to Use sharecropper in a Sentence

sharecropper

noun
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  • The men took the sharecropper out of the car, hanged him from a tree and shot him.
    — Vanessa Gregory, New York Times, 25 Apr. 2018
  • Pride was raised in Sledge, Miss., the son of a sharecropper.
    — Arkansas Online, 12 Dec. 2020
  • At the time, there was a sharecroppers hut where the hay barn now rests.
    — Théoden Janes, charlotteobserver, 5 Feb. 2018
  • The black workers seen in the film are sharecroppers, not slaves.
    — Kyle Smith, National Review, 30 Aug. 2017
  • Born in Waco, Texas, Miller was the grandson of slaves and the son of sharecroppers.
    — The View, ABC News, 11 Feb. 2020
  • In the late 1940s she was accused, with her two sons, of killing a white sharecropper.
    — Scott Reyburn, New York Times, 15 Nov. 2019
  • Charley Pride was 14 at the time, one of 11 children of a sharecropper in Sledge, Miss., a cotton town in the Delta.
    — Los Angeles Times, 12 Dec. 2020
  • Head was not born when her father, then a sharecropper, was in the Tuskegee Study.
    — al, 24 Feb. 2021
  • His father was a sharecropper who went on to work in steel mills first in the South and later in the Midwest.
    — Darcel Rockett, chicagotribune.com, 13 Oct. 2021
  • Born in the Jim Crow South in 1932, Jackson married young and worked in the fields with her husband as a sharecropper.
    — Julie Zauzmer, Washington Post, 10 July 2020
  • The next aircraft carrier to be built will be named for the grandson of slaves and a son of sharecroppers.
    — CBS News, 19 Jan. 2020
  • Raised in the Deep South, Grandma was a daughter of a sharecropper and had to stop attending school in 3rd grade.
    — Shannon Farley, Forbes, 16 Mar. 2021
  • Weber was born on a farm in Hope, Ark., where her father was a sharecropper.
    — John Wildermuth, SFChronicle.com, 22 Dec. 2020
  • Born in Montgomery County, Miss., Hamer worked as a sharecropper for much of her life.
    — Keisha N. Blain, Time, 4 Oct. 2019
  • The brazen lynching of the four sharecroppers horrified the country that year.
    — Washington Post, 27 Feb. 2018
  • Frazier was the son, and 12th child, of a one-armed South Carolina sharecropper.
    — Bill Dwyre, Los Angeles Times, 8 Mar. 2021
  • The wealth of Mansa Musa is hidden beneath the sharecropper’s poverty.
    — Solomon Jones, Philly.com, 4 July 2017
  • Yet the sharecropper’s eighth child always saw herself as a tourist in the realm of affluence, even with cash on hand.
    — The New Yorker, 18 Apr. 2022
  • Blige plays the role of Florence Jackson, a mother and sharecropper’s wife.
    — Washington Post, 11 Dec. 2017
  • Pride was raised in Sledge, Mississippi, the son of a sharecropper.
    — CBS News, 13 Dec. 2020
  • The granddaughter of a sharecropper who never learned to read, Hall read for a living.
    — Washington Post, 8 Dec. 2020
  • The pride of Sledge, Mississippi, was the son of a sharecropper who initially turned to sports as a way to a better life.
    — Kristen M. Hall, The Christian Science Monitor, 13 Dec. 2020
  • The man he was named after — a sharecropper named Bill Curl — was Hawkins' great-great-grandfather.
    — CBS News, 5 May 2021
  • But to those sharecropper's kids picking cotton, that place seemed like the Taj Mahal.
    — CBS News, 23 Dec. 2019
  • Four sharecropper cabins sketched in the 1940s by Samella Lewis have a mean, shutdown and abandoned look.
    — New York Times, 15 July 2021
  • Smaller farmers and sharecroppers did not share in the benefits to the same extent.
    — Surupa Gupta, Foreign Affairs, 3 Mar. 2021
  • That meant that nearly a million tenant farmers and sharecroppers got kicked off the land.
    — Meg Jacobs, Foreign Affairs, 8 Dec. 2020
  • Nill said his grandfather was a sharecropper on the Crescent Rim.
    — Angela Palermo, Idaho Statesman, 9 May 2024
  • My Nana is the daughter of sharecroppers and one of the first students to go to an integrated school in our hometown of Dinwiddie County, Virginia.
    — Shanique Yates, refinery29.com, 9 July 2024
  • His parents were sharecroppers; half of what the family made pulling cotton went to the other family that actually owned the land.
    — Christopher Borrelli, Chicago Tribune, 11 Aug. 2024

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