Example Sentences

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When you are gardening, you are outdoors, breathing fresh air and soaking up vitamin D from sunshine.

From Washington Post • Apr. 22, 2015

Some children introduce us to their mothers who are gardening amid the rice paddies, and one shows us his chickens, each of whom has a name.

From New York Times • Mar. 20, 2014

The Civil War and the Korean War are themes on this year's agenda, as are gardening, history and historic inns.

From Time Magazine Archive

"Not now, Baby," I said; "I am going out now, and you are gardening."

From A Great Emergency and Other Tales by Ewing, Juliana Horatia Gatty

They are gardening, these charming beings!—they are caressing the lotus-buds, sprinkling their petals with something celestial, helping them to blossom.

From Glimpses of Unfamiliar Japan First Series by Hearn, Lafcadio