hoe
noun
a long-handled implement having a thin, flat blade usually set transversely, used to break up the surface of the ground, destroy weeds, etc.
have been hoeing
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present perfect progressiveof hoe.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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The bad news is that there’s nothing especially intense or inventive here, no sign that short fiction is the fertile row Eugenides should have been hoeing all along.
From New York Times ● Oct. 3, 2017
The people had wasted their time digging this shining dirt when they should have been hoeing their gardens.
From The Beginner's American History by D. H. (David Henry) Montgomery
I have been hoeing corn to-day till my back aches ready to fall apart.
From From Farm to Fortune or Nat Nason's Strange Experience by Horatio Alger
