Example Sentences
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Girona ended the game with 10 men when Roca scythed down Yamal to cut short a desperate Barca attack deep in stoppage time.
From Barron's ● Feb. 16, 2026
Nothing could have provided a more suitable host than an area of prairie where native grasses had been scythed away and the ground torn up by metal ploughshares and the hooves of a farmer’s horses.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 17, 2025
Going into Thursday, United was still an outlier in cancellations, per CNN Business: 13 percent of its trips were scythed as of Thursday morning, while other airlines have seen just 2 percent or fewer.
From Slate ● Jun. 29, 2023
Jacob Murphy and Alexander Isak each scored twice and Joelinton added another as Newcastle scythed through a porous visiting defence that was already under the spotlight from last week's defeat against Bournemouth.
From BBC ● Apr. 23, 2023
The long grass had to be scythed and hoed under.
From "A Long Walk to Water" by Linda Sue Park
