Example Sentences

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Other videos show Barranco running from agents with a weed whacker in hand.

From Salon • Jun. 23, 2025

The whacker whirred, manicuring a blanket of short-cropped grass.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 19, 2023

In 2012, she needed stitches on multiple wounds because, she claimed, someone was swinging a weed whacker around, dislodging the battery and reeling it into her face.

From New York Times • Mar. 1, 2022

I mean, doesn’t everyone who wanted an exercise bike or a weed whacker or a boat have it by now?

From Slate • Sep. 13, 2021

He revved his weed whacker, and the harpies wailed in the trees.

From "The Son of Neptune" by Rick Riordan