Example Sentences

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On a warm June day in 2013, a man working as an irrigator began sweating heavily, complaining of chest pain and struggling to breathe, records show.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 25, 2024

Martinez’s office said Hollifield is a rancher and a board member of the Chaves County Soil and Water Conservation District and that Gonzales is an irrigator who is an acequia member.

From Seattle Times • Oct. 14, 2017

Richard Wenstrom, a Lewis-area farmer and irrigator who has long been known for his conservation on his farm, is heading up the basin vision team.

From Washington Times • Mar. 20, 2015

The villain in this story is in fact the farmers’ savior: the center-pivot irrigator, a quarter- or half-mile of pipe that traces a watery circle around a point in the middle of a field.

From New York Times • May 20, 2013

And then, as summer lays its heats—blessed by the fruit man, the irrigator, the farmer alike—over the great interior valleys, the people divide into two classes.

From The Rules of the Game by White, Stewart Edward