Example Sentences

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I am sowing hundreds of pea seeds now with the crazy notion that they will fruit abundantly before the roses flush in late May.

From Washington Post • Feb. 25, 2019

If I think I am sowing good seed and it happens to be bad, I shall have a bad harvest; therefore, it becomes me to see what kind of seed I am sowing.

From Sowing and Reaping by Moody, Dwight Lyman

Now my friends say I'm losing an awful lot of money and am sowing an awfully big crop.

From Children of the Whirlwind by Scott, Leroy

“No, I can’t tell; but it is seed, that is all I want to know, and I am sowing it.”

From Sowing and Reaping by Moody, Dwight Lyman

Yesterday I saw gladness on his face, and when I asked what he was doing, he answered, 'I am sowing!'

From Quo Vadis: a narrative of the time of Nero by Curtin, Jeremiah