Example Sentences

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What would become of all the corn that Iowa's young men were husking was last week settled by the Secretary of Agriculture.

From Time Magazine Archive

And then he had added that the rabbits and squirrels and woodchucks were likely to be his best market, for they were husking it for him, and not charging him a cent.

From Harper's Young People, October 19, 1880 An Illustrated Weekly by Various

They were husking corn and occasionally something was said and they laughed.

From Winesburg, Ohio; a group of tales of Ohio small town life by Anderson, Sherwood