thresh
Example Sentences
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Traditionally in Vietnam, people would grow their own rice and thresh it, some boiling it in a clay or metal pot over a fire of leftover rice straw.
From New York Times • Nov. 11, 2021
I left word with the maid that we were on no account to be disturbed and we sat down to thresh the whole thing out.
From The New Yorker • Mar. 13, 2017
Q: Does he thresh things out with you?
From US News • Jun. 5, 2015
Winter brought the people indoors to weave yarn into fabric, sew clothing, thresh grain, and keep the fires going.
From Textbooks • Dec. 30, 2014
They were going to the next place where neighbors had stacked their wheat and wanted the machines to thresh it.
From "Little House in the Big Woods" by Laura Ingalls Wilder
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
