Example Sentences
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Ukraine sowed a total of 6.5 million hectares of winter wheat for its 2022 crop, but only 5 million hectares could be threshed by farmers on government-controlled territory.
From Reuters • Jun. 14, 2022
He was aw-shucks Chuck, and he threshed most of his challengers with ease, often with ads that showed him tugging two mowers across his farm yard in stereo.
From Washington Post • Oct. 4, 2021
One of McCormick’s rivals created the first combine, or machine that reaped and threshed in a single process, but his invention was not perfected until after the Civil War.
From Textbooks • Jan. 18, 2018
Embodying ambient sensations — clopping horse hooves, rhythmic hammer swings, pungent scents of freshly threshed grain — Mr. Skogsbergh’s vivid photographs, like flies on a wall, likewise bear witness to storied lives.
From New York Times • Sep. 19, 2014
He set himself and the gods helped him and for seven years there were harvests, and every year Wang Lung and his men threshed far more than could be eaten.
From "The Good Earth" by Pearl S. Buck
