FARMING in a Sentence

Learn FARMING from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.
282 example sentences for FARMING, such as:
1. Busy as ever with his farming.
2. Organic farming is better for the environment.
3. The group can't get credit to buy farming machinery.
4. Forest is being cleared to make way for new farming land.
5. When Pavel's health grew so bad, they decided to try farming.
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Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
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 Meanings and Examples of FARMING
farming
 n.  the practice of cultivating the land or raising stock
 a.  relating to rural matters
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1  I know something about wheat from my farming, and I worked a couple of months in the flour mill at Curlew when I got sick of tailoring.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXX
2  One son, Fuchs said, was well-grown, and strong enough to work the land; but the father was old and frail and knew nothing about farming.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1. The Shimerdas: III
3  The land was growing rougher; I was told that we were approaching Squaw Creek, which cut up the west half of the Shimerdas' place and made the land of little value for farming.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1. The Shimerdas: III
4  When Pavel's health grew so bad, they decided to try farming.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1. The Shimerdas: VIII
5  That river was to be my compensation for the lost freedom of the farming country.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2. The Hired Girls: I
6  They told me they worked in Kansas City in the winter, and in summer they went out among the farming towns with their tent and taught dancing.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2. The Hired Girls: VIII
7  Her husband knew very little about farming and often grew discouraged.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 5. Cuzak's Boys: I
8  I know for a fact, that his race horses literally ran away with the prettiest bit of Kentucky farming land I ever laid eyes upon.
The Awakening By Kate Chopin
Context  Highlight   In XXII
9  After riding about an hour in this way, the whole party made a precipitate and tumultuous descent into a barn-yard belonging to a large farming establishment.
Uncle Tom's Cabin By Harriet Beecher Stowe
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VII
10  Levin knew that his elder brother took little interest in farming, and only put the question in deference to him, and so he only told him about the sale of his wheat and money matters.
Anna Karenina 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 1: Chapter 8
11  The farming of the land, as he was managing it, had become not merely unattractive but revolting to him, and he could take no further interest in it.
Anna Karenina 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 3: Chapter 24
12  Just now, since his disenchantment with farming, Levin was particularly glad to stay with Sviazhsky.
Anna Karenina 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 3: Chapter 26
13  The business of reorganizing the farming of his land absorbed him as completely as though there would never be anything else in his life.
Anna Karenina 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 3: Chapter 29
14  Busy as ever with his farming.
Anna Karenina 3 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 8: Chapter 6
15  We shall get on together splendidly, Arkasha; you shall help me in farming the estate, if only it isn't a bore to you.
Fathers and Children By Ivan Turgenev
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER III
Example Sentence: (72 in 5 pages)
1  The basin favours the development of farming and animal husbandry.
2  Modern farming methods have led to the total extinction of many species of wild flowers.
3  Traditional slash and burn farming methods have exhausted the soil.
4  Modern farming methods coexist with more traditional practices.
5  The recent food-poisoning scare has reignited debate/concern/controversy over farming methods.
6  Consumer pressure is being put upon the food industry to cut down on factory farming methods.
7  The group can't get credit to buy farming machinery.
8  The main culprit in the current crisis seems to be modern farming techniques.
9  Modern farming methods can have an adverse effect on the environment.
10  Organic farming is better for the environment.
11  Forest is being cleared to make way for new farming land.
12  Huge swathes of rain forest are being cleared for farming and mining.
13  Grass fires have seared the land near the farming village of Basekhai.
14  Modern farming methods have done considerable harm to the countryside.
15  Raising animals was only secondary to other forms of farming.