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View definitions for furrowed

furrowed

adjective as in carved

adjective as in corrugated

adjective as in engraved

adjective as in plowed

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adjective as in ridged

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adjective as in wrinkled

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Example Sentences

The robot straddled a planted bed three rows wide with its wheels in adjacent furrows.

Periodically, Alcántar stopped the machine and kneeled in the furrow, bending to examine a “kill”—spots where the robot’s array of cameras and blades had gone ever so slightly out of alignment and uprooted the seedling itself.

It forces us, line by surprising line, to abandon the furrows of our ordinary perspective.

Cameras panning to American fans showed dispirited faces, furrowed brows.

As the sun was setting, we made our way back, along a highway furrowed by hippos during their nocturnal forages.

In the passenger seat, there's a man, buttoned-down shirt and furrowed brow.

Ryan prefers the aw-shucks understatement of an earnestly furrowed brow.

He remained silent for a second or two as he just furrowed his brows and studied the photo.

Old Holmes furrowed his brow and closed one eye, seeking with the other the inspiration of the sky.

What terrible plan bent the pale forehead, already sallow with sleepless nights, and furrowed by thinking?

Dangerfield was evidently in one of his worst moods, with furrowed lower face and brooding, far-distant glance.

His gray hair was so accurately combed and flattened over his yellow pate that it made it look like a furrowed field.

He saw the furrowed pain on her face and the torment in her eyes, and divined the day of suffering through which she had passed.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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