Example Sentences

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It all started one day while I was hoeing com down in our field close to the river.

From "Where the Red Fern Grows" by Wilson Rawls

Sure enough there he was hoeing away, and he stopped and wiped his perspiring face upon his arm as the boy came up.

From First in the Field A Story of New South Wales by Rahey, L.

He was hoeing the rows of potatoes with a sort of dogged determination to find interest in the work.

From The Law-Breakers by Cullum, Ridgwell

A small boy was hoeing corn in a sterile field by the roadside, when a passer-by stopped and said: "'Pears to me your corn is rather small."

From Toaster's Handbook Jokes, Stories, and Quotations by Fanning, C. E. (Clara Elizabeth)

"I was hoeing beyond that clump of bushes," said Daniel, pointing to a group of high blueberries that had been allowed to remain in the cleared field.

From The Puritan Twins by Perkins, Lucy Fitch