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Because of TV streaming platforms and other factors, he said, "in my take of things, it's going to be a very rough road to hoe now."

From Barron's ● Oct. 11, 2025

Seconds later, Ryan is seen in a teal tracksuit striding toward the deputy holding a hula hoe, a type of garden tool that has a metal D-shaped fixture on the end for digging into dirt.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 14, 2024

"This will be a hard row to hoe, given that this same jury is daily receiving new evidence that the defendant, outside the courtroom, continues to spread the lie undeterred," Ms Jones said.

From BBC ● Jan. 25, 2024

I got the transcripts from the hearings and basically they said "This will kill jobs. This will destroy agriculture, if you create a long-handled hoe."

From Salon ● Oct. 29, 2023

At dawn she had taken a hoe from the wall and she called the children and she took a little cold food wrapped up in a cabbage leaf and she had not returned.

From "The Good Earth" by Pearl S. Buck

It can turn a century-old maker of back hoes and mining trucks into a hot tech stock.

From Barron's ● Jan. 13, 2026

One account said the Russians paid the Kashia Pomo people already living there “three blankets, two axes, three hoes, and a miscellaneous assortment of beads” for the use of the land.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 1, 2025

In scorching heat, they attacked solid ground with pickaxes and hoes before carefully tucking the seedlings into the earth.

From Seattle Times ● Jan. 13, 2024

The farmworkers wanted long-handled hoes, because it hurt their backs to kneel down all day.

From Salon ● Oct. 29, 2023

We pounded the furrows with shovel blades and hoes, trying to break down the soil.

From "Breaking Through" by Francisco Jiménez

"But it's temporary," she sighed, standing barefoot in her freshly hoed soil.

From Barron's ● Nov. 26, 2025

The Renegades hoed a tougher road, squeaking into the playoffs in the final week with a 4-6 record.

From Washington Times ● May 10, 2023

They harvested grapes in California, hoed sugar beets in Nebraska and picked cherries, peaches, pears and apples in Washington State.

From New York Times ● Nov. 23, 2020

Workers hoed endlessly to control the weeds and nipped small shoots and flowers to force the growth of larger leaves.

From Textbooks ● Jan. 18, 2018

On the morning of Miss Myrt’s funeral, we hoed weeds in the field like troopers.

From "The Teacher’s Funeral" by Richard Peck

The last stretch of the journey to Cynthia takes me along a dirt track, past meandering cattle, a man hoeing his vegetable patch, and groups of women and children returning from church.

From BBC ● May 25, 2024

A detailed analysis of five gardening activities — digging, hoeing, raking, troweling and weeding — found that gardening uses a variety of both upper- and lower-body muscles.

From Washington Post ● Apr. 22, 2022

Like slaves and servants, poor free women performed hard field labor like hoeing and reaping.

From Textbooks ● Jan. 18, 2018

The bad news is that there’s nothing especially intense or inventive here, no sign that short fiction is the fertile row Eugenides should have been hoeing all along.

From New York Times ● Oct. 3, 2017

“There is nothing in the house until nightfall,” she said briefly, and without speech she took the furrow to the left of him and fell into steady hoeing.

From "The Good Earth" by Pearl S. Buck