Example Sentences

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Umakichi was a truck farmer, and after the farm’s produce had been packed, he would drive to the Los Angeles farmer’s market to sell it.

From New York Times • Jul. 20, 2020

A circa-1900 Chicago teacher marries a Dutch truck farmer and raises a son.

From Los Angeles Times • May 8, 2020

The son of a truck farmer, he "backed into deaning" after flying for the Marines in World War I, trying the textile business and teaching economics.

From Time Magazine Archive

The son of a poor Pennsylvania Dutch truck farmer, he got his schooling in one-room schoolhouses, spent his free time stoking stoves and cleaning blackboards for $5 a month to help the family get by.

From Time Magazine Archive

Up the railroad track I went, and at night hired out to a truck farmer, with the freedom of his hay-mow for my sleeping quarters.

From Analyzing Character by Blackford, Katherine M. H.