harrow

Example Sentences

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Track maintenance will then harrow the track to release the compactness and return it to its regular consistency for racing.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 27, 2021

Alcée rode his horse under the shelter of a side projection where the chickens had huddled and there were plows and a harrow piled up in the corner.

From Textbooks • Dec. 21, 2021

In her diary entry for July 15, 1944, Anne Frank wrote words that would harrow and challenge generations not yet born: “I still believe, in spite of everything, that people are truly good at heart.”

From Seattle Times • Nov. 24, 2019

Called DISCOL, the simple trial involved raking the centre of a roughly 11-square-kilometre plot in the Pacific Ocean with an 8-metre-wide implement called a plough harrow.

From Nature • Jul. 23, 2019

I finished it in the afternoon, and planned to harrow it in the morning, and then seed it.

From "Z for Zachariah" by Robert C. O’Brien