Sentence examples for pick potatoes from inspiring English sources

He even kept me off school to pick potatoes, which he shouldn't have done.

"Troublemakers at all the other camps were sent to pick potatoes in Houlton as punishment".

Gove's reasoning is that the long summer break is a relic of the 19th century when children were needed at home to pick potatoes and such like.

Her collection focuses on the German prisoners who were sent to her small town on the Canadian border to pick potatoes.

The depopulation of the countryside led to experiments – students were sent to the countryside to pick potatoes, and later Khrushchev attempted to make Russia agriculturally self-sufficient – but after economists tried to "rationalise" the economy by raising the prices of basic foods, the result was meat riots in Novocherkassk, which were bloodily crushed.

"I remember half term in October when I was at school in Aberdeen was called the tattie holiday, the period when kids would go to the fields to pick potatoes.

He was put to work picking potatoes in Wales.

'A lot of my work is like picking potatoes,' he says.

The cast of six dancers appeared to be agricultural workers, planting and picking potatoes and sometimes tossing them about.

She was 13 at the time and was in her family's garden picking potatoes when the air raid sirens went off.

"Bringing the boys gets them away from their hand-held devices," says yoga teacher Manon Palmieri, whose sons are busy picking potatoes.