Example Sentences

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For now, 80-year-old Molchaniuk from Tychyna Avenue is grateful that spring finally arrived and holds the promise of a new sowing season at her dacha’s vegetable patch.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 18, 2026

Over the longer haul, some worry about current conditions sowing the seeds of another financial crisis like that of 2007-09.

From MarketWatch • Apr. 8, 2026

Images of smoke rising over Guadalajara quickly circulated on social media, sowing doubts among some planning to travel to Mexico for the World Cup.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 25, 2026

Politicians across the piece should be careful when sowing seeds of distrust that ultimately have to be harvested by all of them.

From BBC • Feb. 20, 2026

He pretended, therefore, that he had gone mad, and when a messenger from the Greek Army arrived, the King was plowing a field and sowing it with salt instead of seed.

From "Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes" by Edith Hamilton