Example Sentences

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On a warm June day in 2013, a man working as an irrigator began sweating heavily, complaining of chest pain and struggling to breathe, records show.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 25, 2024

Martinez’s office said Hollifield is a rancher and a board member of the Chaves County Soil and Water Conservation District and that Gonzales is an irrigator who is an acequia member.

From Seattle Times • Oct. 14, 2017

Richard Wenstrom, a Lewis-area farmer and irrigator who has long been known for his conservation on his farm, is heading up the basin vision team.

From Washington Times • Mar. 20, 2015

The villain in this story is in fact the farmers’ savior: the center-pivot irrigator, a quarter- or half-mile of pipe that traces a watery circle around a point in the middle of a field.

From New York Times • May 20, 2013

The gardener, or rather irrigator, may be a royal title.

From Babylonian and Assyrian Laws, Contracts and Letters by Johns, C. H. W. (Claude Hermann Walter)