Example Sentences
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Industries of textiles, or metalworkers making nails and scythes, were shaped like "factories without machines spread out over hundreds of households" according to Shaw-Taylor -- and increasingly produced goods for international markets.
From Science Daily ● Apr. 4, 2024
Using handmade scythes attached to the end of a long bamboo pole, they cut down the leaves at the top of the palms.
From BBC ● Mar. 31, 2024
Thanksgiving holiday scythes volumes later but there was plenty to keep them busy while they did it.
From Reuters ● Nov. 23, 2023
Dr. Dehaene began his slide show with a collage of photographs showing symbols engraved in rock — scythes, axes, animals, gods, suns, stars, spirals, zigzags, parallel lines, dots.
From New York Times ● Mar. 22, 2022
Faraday remained solitary and above petty politics, as did perhaps half of the scythes.
From "Scythe" by Neal Shusterman
