scythe

OK, Verstappen did not scythe through the group involving Yuki Tsunoda’s RB, Esteban Ocon’s Alpine and Ferrari’s Charles Leclerc as quickly as he might have been expected to do.

From BBC ● Nov. 5, 2024

She quickly wields her talent for sizing up men like a scythe, cutting him off at the knees, or maybe a few inches higher, before he can further ruin her solace.

From Salon ● Feb. 27, 2023

Since taking over Twitter, Elon Musk has taken a scythe to the social network’s employee roll, in an increasingly severe campaign to slash costs.

From New York Times ● Feb. 27, 2023

“We foreshadow what the Wolf will reveal he is later in the story by having his sickle, or scythe, having that same kind of framing.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 21, 2023

Instead of the scythe there are a pair of Mollies.

From "Dread Nation" by Justina Ireland

Industries of textiles, or metalworkers making nails and scythes, were shaped like "factories without machines spread out over hundreds of households" according to Shaw-Taylor -- and increasingly produced goods for international markets.

From Science Daily ● Apr. 4, 2024

Using handmade scythes attached to the end of a long bamboo pole, they cut down the leaves at the top of the palms.

From BBC ● Mar. 31, 2024

Thanksgiving holiday scythes volumes later but there was plenty to keep them busy while they did it.

From Reuters ● Nov. 23, 2023

Dr. Dehaene began his slide show with a collage of photographs showing symbols engraved in rock — scythes, axes, animals, gods, suns, stars, spirals, zigzags, parallel lines, dots.

From New York Times ● Mar. 22, 2022

A boy and a girl—both older than him, maybe eighteen or nineteen, would be getting their rings today and become junior scythes.

From "Scythe" by Neal Shusterman

Girona ended the game with 10 men when Roca scythed down Yamal to cut short a desperate Barca attack deep in stoppage time.

From Barron's ● Feb. 16, 2026

Nothing could have provided a more suitable host than an area of prairie where native grasses had been scythed away and the ground torn up by metal ploughshares and the hooves of a farmer’s horses.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 17, 2025

South African fly-half De Beer produce a searing early break, and with Bath failing to deal with his chip-kick, the ball was moved to Adams who scythed through to the line to open the scoring.

From BBC ● Dec. 16, 2023

Before the lawn mower was invented in 1830 to level off the surrounding field, gardens needed to stand head and shoulders above their scythed or grazed setting.

From Washington Post ● Apr. 20, 2023

The long grass had to be scythed and hoed under.

From "A Long Walk to Water" by Linda Sue Park

An occasional scything wind flapped the flags flying at half-staff.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 8, 2025

The school has been without a gym since Hurricane Laura made landfall in August 2020 with 150-mile-an-hour winds and a tidal surge that reached 17 feet before scything through the state’s western and central parishes.

From New York Times ● Mar. 8, 2022

Raphinha converted his own penalty to give Leeds an early lead, only to concede a spot kick at the other end when scything down Toni Rudiger.

From Seattle Times ● Dec. 11, 2021

But England - who welcomed new attack coach Martin Gleeson after a disappointing Six Nations - kept up their efforts with sneaky offloads and scything runs.

From BBC ● Nov. 6, 2021

During those four weeks in Carthage, McCandless worked hard, doing dirty, tedious jobs that nobody else wanted to tackle: mucking out warehouses, exterminating vermin, painting, scything weeds.

From "Into the Wild" by Jon Krakauer