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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

As Buganzi spoke, a neighbor, Fiona Nakacwa, gripped a garden hoe and paved a way for water away from her home.

From Seattle Times ● Apr. 24, 2023

Hatsue stood with her long-handled hoe and said that she had learned from Mrs. Shigemura that character was always destiny.

From "Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel" by David Guterson

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

He took out two brand-new hoes, a knife with the hilt wrapped in copper wire, a length of dress-cloth, and a small amount of real money.

From "A Girl Named Disaster" by Nancy Farmer

"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

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

Santa paced the room, ho-hoed and hoed some more, dished the presents out one by one, built the tension terrifically, eventually stopped in front of me and my new best mate.

From The Guardian ● Dec. 25, 2017

We heaved and we hoed and we got nowhere.

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

One time, Johnny wasn’t quite finished with his hoeing and was too proud to ask his dad if he could stop and go to his scheduled track meet.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 30, 2023

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

Running a farm is terrible hard work—plowing and hoeing and milking cows and such and being out in the fields all by yourself with nobody to talk to all day long.

From "My Brother Sam is Dead" by James Lincoln Collier and Christopher Collier