Sentence examples for peon from inspiring English sources

In both the English and Spanish languages, the word peon became synonymous with labourer but was restricted in the United States to those workers compelled by contract to pay their creditors in labour.

The once free-spirited gaucho thus became a farmhand or peon.

The debt peon had to work for his creditor, and the labour of the criminal peon was sold by the state to a third party.

"He looked at me like I was a peon, like I wasn't a threat to him," he said.

Patrick Elias, the smooth and shrewd Czech forward who has been knighted a gentleman several times in this space, paused during an interview to say "Bless you" when a reporter or some other peon sneezed.

Remember, this year's theme is "proletariat fools," so please tell your kids to start picking out their favorite naïve peon for the costume contest.

You do, in an involuntary, Pavlovian way, which is why you're reading me when you should be outdoors, talking with a loved one, listening to live music, knitting, doing nearly anything else! Make a limp statement about your technocratic dictator that masquerades as wit, you enslaved peon, and pass me on!

I suspect that this problem is at least as severe at the peon level — bookers, interns, researchers, receptionists, coffee fetchers, mailroom guys, etc. — as it is for correspondents and producers.