combines
Example Sentences
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In the fields, the cost of diesel needed to run combines as farmers start harvesting soybeans, corn and other crops this month has skyrocketed more than 67 percent since February.
From Barron's ● Oct. 9, 2026
When the combines went out on Charles Day's family farm, they gathered a harvest "about 50% down, sometimes more".
From BBC ● Oct. 7, 2026
Fisher designed a 5,000-square-foot studio and home that combines the aesthetics of a downtown artist’s loft and the comforts of a single-family home in the working-class enclave that still offered inexpensive land.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 6, 2026
Sometimes Iran combines various types of weapons in an effort to overwhelm its adversaries.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 27, 2026
A grammatical function identifies not what a word is in the language but what it does in that particular sentence: how it combines with the other words to determine the sentence’s meaning.
From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker
