sower
Americannoun
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sowers
plural
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a person, machine, or device that scatters seed over the earth for the purpose of growth.
The plows went up and down the fields, the sowers plodding after them.
This sower has a capacity of 6 bags of grass seed, ideal for use on small farms or golf courses.
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a person who introduces or seeks to foster a certain attitude, feeling, condition, etc., in others.
The Mayan god Tezcatlipoca, thought to incite wars, was called Necocyautl, meaning "sower of discord on both sides."
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Gill explains that in Mark chapter 4, the English text reads: "A sower went out to sow."
From BBC ● Dec. 21, 2022
And when he violates her trust, she transforms into a sower of chaos.
From Salon ● Dec. 4, 2022
"The sower of the wind, as they say, will reap the storm."
From Reuters ● Oct. 27, 2022
Recall the Bible’s parable of the sower, whose first batches of seeds were devoured by birds, languished in inadequate soil, and withered under a scorching sun.
From The New Yorker ● Apr. 23, 2019
He sends studies for paintings to Émile Bernard: haystacks, fishing boats, a row of cottages, a sower with the setting sun, a harvest scene, and washerwomen at a canal with a bridge.
From "Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers" by Deborah Heiligman
“May you be sowers of hope, builders of bridges and agents of dialogue and harmony.”
From Seattle Times ● Apr. 29, 2017
Previous analyses inconclusively weighed interior cooling against peninsular warming, providing just enough murk to allow doubt sowers to do their work.
From New York Times ● Feb. 10, 2011
Following were the sowers: Diego Rivera was the most journalisti cally picturesque of the syndicate.
From Time Magazine Archive
We are sowers, and full seldom reapers, For life's harvest ripens when we die, 'Tis in death alone God gives His sleepers All for which they sigh.
From The Life of Duty, v. 2 A year's plain sermons on the Gospels or Epistles by H. J. Wilmot-Buxton
They are examples of what sowers should be.
From Broken Bread from an Evangelist's Wallet by Thomas Champness
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