mowing
the act of leveling or cutting down grass, grain, etc., with a mowing machine or scythe.
the quantity of grass, grain, etc., cut in a specified period.
Origin of mowing
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How to use mowing in a sentence
To put it more bluntly, by scaling back mowing, Charap wanted to change Americans’ perceptions of landscaping, one cemetery—or tiny burial plot—at a time.
This historic Brooklyn cemetery shows us a future without lawns | Ryan Goldberg | November 17, 2021 | Popular-ScienceKeep the mower stored properly, away from rain and snow, and you’ll get more than a couple of years worth of mowing out of it.
Best electric lawn mower: Give up the gas for one of these powerful trimmers | Irena Collaku | July 25, 2021 | Popular-ScienceThen grab this automated mowing robot that can trim up to one half of an acre.
Best electric lawn mower: Give up the gas for one of these powerful trimmers | Irena Collaku | July 25, 2021 | Popular-ScienceIt’s time to consider an attractive, low-maintenance alternative by replacing your lawn with ground cover plants that don’t require any mowing at all.
It’s time to rip up your lawn and replace it with something you won’t need to mow | John Kennedy | June 27, 2021 | Popular-SciencePrincipal among them is the need for regular mowing, a chore that primarily serves to stave off your neighbors’ disapproval by conforming to a dated suburban ideal.
It’s time to rip up your lawn and replace it with something you won’t need to mow | John Kennedy | June 27, 2021 | Popular-Science
The killers went from classroom to classroom mowing down teachers and students alike.
Taliban: We Slaughtered 100+ Kids Because Their Parents Helped America | Sami Yousafzai | December 16, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTWith this tool, Death is illustrated in many a 15th-century woodcut mowing down souls as if they were grain.
Ebola Rages in West Africa, Reigniting Humanity’s Oldest Fear: The Plague | Scott Bixby | August 4, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTOr maybe it was the day we first picked up a razor aged 11 or 13 or 15 and began the lifelong mowing of body hair.
Political ads showing Harry Reid on rider mower, mowing the Mall?
PJ’s Political Forecast: Cloudy with a Chance of Meatheads | P. J. O’Rourke | March 14, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTShe often worked multiple jobs at a time, including tutoring, carpentry, mowing highways, waiting tables, and clerking.
Let her have one day at the 'mowing,' if you choose, then she'd better be put into that old pasture and left there.
Dorothy at Skyrie | Evelyn RaymondHe had a contrivance that looked like a small mowing machine, and was busily cutting swaths of wool along her sides.
The Red Cow and Her Friends | Peter McArthurHappening to remember that the mowing machine was standing in the barnyard, with the mowing-bar in the air, I examined it.
The Red Cow and Her Friends | Peter McArthurNo more easy conquests for him, sitting in his college chair, mowing them all down like a Maxim as far asEly.
The Romance of His Life | Mary CholmondeleyAll through schooltime the mowing-machine hummed its low harmony of perishable minutes and wasted sunlight.
Sinister Street, vol. 1 | Compton Mackenzie
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