sow
verb (used with object)
to scatter (seed) over land, earth, etc., for growth; plant.
has been sowing
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present perfect progressiveof sow (3rd person singular).present perfect progressive
Used to describe an action that began in the past, has continued continuously, and is still in progress.
Example Sentences
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“Who has been sowing that unnatural garbage into your mind?”
From "A Confederacy of Dunces" by John Kennedy Toole
If there is no sowing, there will be no reaping; but the converse does not hold good; you cannot say, wherever there has been sowing, it will be followed by a reaping.
From The Parables of Our Lord by William Arnot
For more than a century she has been sowing the wind, carrying, and in the direct ratio of their connection with her, poverty and slavery into important countries of the earth.
From Letters on International Copyright; Second Edition by H. C. (Henry Charles) Carey
“He has been sowing the seeds which will, I hope, produce ample fruit in good time,” he observed.
From Roger Willoughby A Story of the Times of Benbow by Archibald Webb
And when the seed had sprung up the villagers, said: "Look, do you see where the devil has been sowing thistles and nettles amongst old bailiff Hawermann's corn!"
From An Old Story of My Farming Days Vol. I (of III). (Ut Mine Stromtid) by Fritz Reuter
