Example Sentences

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Louisiana workers have been harvesting energy from the Gulf of Mexico for a century now, and it’s something we’re good at.

From Washington Times • Apr. 21, 2021

Protestors, too, have been harvesting shoots and seeds from Hambach to plant elsewhere, in an effort to conserve some of Hambach’s genetic identity even when the forest is gone.

From National Geographic • Apr. 13, 2018

Three months later, when he should have been harvesting and getting ready to sell his wheat, Kirn was staring out across vast cracked, gray, empty fields dotted with weeds and little patches of stunted wheat.

From The Guardian • Sep. 7, 2017

Campaign workers have been harvesting email addresses from attendees at his rallies, and lawn signs for him abound throughout the early-voting states.

From New York Times • Jan. 4, 2016

Dr. Birmingham, of the Westport Union, is quoted as saying that in September a disease known locally as the "English cold" is prevalent among the young men who have been harvesting in England.

From What's the Matter with Ireland? by Russell, Ruth