Example Sentences
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Unhusked ears of corn can be kept loose in the vegetable crisper while husked corn should be kept in a plastic bag for extra protection.
From Salon • Aug. 30, 2022
The 27-year-old, clearly cognizant of the potential dry-cleaning bill at hand, husked his shirt for the recovery shot.
From Golf Digest • Mar. 31, 2019
Her strong voice echoed across the fields as she husked corn.
From Seattle Times • Jun. 19, 2018
When he was growing up he would work, along with the other Malay speakers, on South Island collecting coconuts for the Clunies-Ross family to be husked and sold to the mainland.
From The Guardian • Jan. 28, 2017
They rode past the blackened bones of houses and barns without number, chimneys sticking up like grave markers, the husked stone walls of ravaged mills and granaries.
From "The Underground Railroad: A Novel" by Colson Whitehead
