hoe
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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
The announcement startled Ryan, who began striding toward the door holding a hula hoe, the claim states.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 21, 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
“You’d have a really big row to hoe and you would have a big fuss inside the military if you chose not to follow a presidential order.”
From Seattle Times ● Nov. 26, 2023
“Check your own records and you’ll learn the answer,” Joe replied in Spanish, picking up his hoe.
From "The Milagro Beanfield War" by John Nichols
Rescuers used what tools they could scrounge — shovels, hoes, pickaxes, their bare hands.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 9, 2026
It can turn a century-old maker of back hoes and mining trucks into a hot tech stock.
From Barron's ● Jan. 13, 2026
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
What else did we keep there but hoes and shovels and rakes?
From "Please Ignore Vera Dietz" by A.S. King
"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
The highway is quiet enough for new shops like Mr. Qadim’s and for farmers’ fields that can be hoed all the way up to the highway’s edge without fear of being shelled or shot.
From New York Times ● Mar. 24, 2022
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
The long grass had to be scythed and hoed under.
From "A Long Walk to Water" by Linda Sue Park
Among the strategies Weller recommended are inter-row hoeing, which helps suppress weeds; thermal weeding, which uses heat to kill weeds; and bio-herbicides, which use microorganisms for weed control.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 22, 2024
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
We remained several minutes, watching two Asian women hoeing, then continued on.
From "Seedfolks" by Paul Fleischman
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