Sentence examples for picked potatoes from inspiring English sources

Sure, there are bad days, but I've been a waiter, a civil servant, a van driver, a shop worker and even picked potatoes for money before I found my niche in the creative industries.

In my geek years, I was a solemn boy with pipestem arms, wire-rim glasses and a homemade haircut, and attended summer Bible camp where we learned about the total depravity of man and then came home and picked potatoes at a nearby truck farm.

Many were immigrant or African-American children who toiled all day at the Duryea Starch Works in Glen Cove, the Setauket Rubber Factory or the West Neck Brickyard of Huntington in the late 1800s and early 1900s, or who picked potatoes or cranberries until as late as the 1970s, Mr. Ruff said.

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

'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.

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.

"If you're picking potatoes, we don't care where you're from or if you're blue, pink or purple.

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