Example Sentences

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While nearby hippies were hoeing vegetable beds, canning tomatoes, and otherwise getting back to the land, Sanders went back to the typewriter.

From Salon • Dec. 30, 2015

On this sunlit night last week, Crofter Willie Fraser and his son were hoeing turnips in the garden of their low stone cottage near the inlet.

From Time Magazine Archive

Land Army girls were hoeing among the cabbages in the adjoining field—no time off for them in the rain, either.

From "Code Name Verity" by Elizabeth Wein

We saw the Indians both industrious and idle: some were hoeing maize, others harvesting wheat, and the habitants were also very busy in the fields.

From Canada and the Canadians, Vol. 2 by Bonnycastle, Richard Henry

Or if we were hoeing you might hear something like, "Come on, Slow Poke."

From The Life of Me; an autobiography by Johnson, Clarence Edgar