thresh
Example Sentences
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Adelaide connects socially with men who work the land as cowboys or on threshing crews.
From Washington Post
The country’s military is rejiggering some of its munitions factories to produce tractors and threshing machines, while also converting some airfields into greenhouses.
From New York Times
Kansas’s title defense, which ended with Bill Self unable to coach as he recovers from a heart procedure, included 28 victories before it ran headlong into Arkansas’ threshing machine of athleticism.
From Washington Post
Time for hay and grain harvesting and threshing was limited because grain and hay were wet with dew and needed to dry.
From Washington Post
To Americans with supercomputers, a.k.a. smartphones, in their pockets, the progress from scythes to threshing machines, from hand stitching to sewing machines, and from less to more efficient steelmaking might seem banal.
From Washington Post
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
