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

It took him a full day to broadcast the seed into the furrows, after which he folded away the burlap, barely noticing a stencilled word indicating where it had come from: Odessa.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 17, 2025

I ran on, stumbling through the pasture stubble and furrows of the plowed fields.

From "My Brother Sam is Dead" by James Lincoln Collier and Christopher Collier