Example Sentences
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"If the baiter hasn't followed quickly enough behind the seeder, the mice are coming along at night and eating the seed out of the furrows," she says.
From BBC ● May 30, 2026
“Hamlin,” read a sign, and for miles in both directions were furrows and beds with only dirt or scrub brush or dead trees.
From Slate ● Apr. 20, 2026
On Faysal Omar Salah's family farm, the seeded furrows are nothing but dust after months without rain.
From Barron's ● Feb. 23, 2026
The morning frost glistens, and—in a clever device—the low sun glimmers through a row of unseen, leafless trees behind the artist, casting crisscrossing, rhythmic shadows on the furrows.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 24, 2025
I had to almost jog to keep up with him as he swept down the furrows.
From "Mississippi Trial, 1955" by Chris Crowe
