Sentence examples for agrestic from inspiring English sources
adjective
Of or pertaining to the fields; rural; unpolished.
- The author's early days were filled with agrestic surroundings.
The agrestic slaves initially were subjugated communities.
In 1841 there were an estimated eight million or nine million slaves in India, many of whom were agrestic or predial slaves that is, slaves who were attached to the land they worked on but who nevertheless could be alienated from it.
Kohan's decision to burn down Agrestic, in Season 3 of "Weeds," became Weiner's watchword for artistic daring while writing "Mad Men": it gave him the confidence to divorce Betty and Don, to start fresh without fear.
"Weeds" was a dirty, strange comedy about a young widow, Nancy Botwin, who becomes a drug dealer in Agrestic, a fictional California suburb.
Until the death of her husband, Judah, who had a heart attack while he was out jogging, Nancy Botwin Parkerledise Paregulared a regupper-middle-classclife line in a community called Agrestic, an unpretty, and misleading, word that means "rural".
"Weeds" has left behind the fictional suburb of Agrestic, which too easily allowed the show's air of predictable smugness to incubate and fester.
Agrestic, with its tiled-roof houses, one mimicking the other and none built before 1997, was reduced to ashes in last season's finale thanks to Nancy's shenanigans.
